You’re right as long as you’re careful in who you hire, which should be obvious but isn’t always. Lots of industry vets who were good at one job and terrible at another (see former scandals at HP, Yahoo, etc.).

Agreed, I’m honestly surprised it took him this long to step down.  I never understood how he was able to appear in all these videos AND run the company.

FYI, that particular situation is called the “Peter Principle”: moving up in job ladder to a position where you are no longer qualified (or willing, or able) to do the job.
Short story, it’s a lose-lose situation: you can’t do your job effectively, you AND your organization suffers from it. And usually, those positions…

“Be impressed with my ignorance” isn’t the flex you think it is

I mean, you’re kind of taking it out of context. “Insanely popular Linus Tech Tips Channel” already narrows it down to Youtube.

This dude’s most popular videos have been viewed ~15m times but that’s not a unique count AND that’s the sum of every view over the course of multiple years.

These comments are always so dumb. The dude is mega-famous in the gaming community and tech reviews, and he’s built an extremely successful platform to the point where his company could decline a $100 million buy-out offer. He’s popular, regardless of what you—the main character, apparently—know about him.

It makes sense when you conceptualise it as taking a master artist role, a running your own atelier kind of thing. You suddenly have immense creative control and input over others, and still get to add personal work

I also bet you haven't heard of many other things not in your circle, it doesn’t mean they magically aren't popular the universe doesn’t revolve around you 

Well if you follow tech/computers at all you likely would have heard of him.

I’ve seen so many private business owners never realize this. The point of owning your own business should be to grow it to the point where you can hire people to do the work you don’t want to do and just focus on the parts that give you joy.

You could have spent 10 seconds on google to avoid making stupid posts like that.

He’s got over 15 million subs on YouTube.  Your anecdotal lack of awareness of him does not negate his popularity.  

Kudos to Linus for having the maturity and humility to make this move. This right here is why a ton of game studios and tech companies crash and burn or end up with super toxic work cultures, because the founders were coders or designers or artists—people who don’t necessarily have the skillset, temperament, or actual…

If you watch any of his home-tech videos you’ll notice he’s always fixing issues he created for himself trying to smartify everything. And he still hasn’t gotten his lightswitches to work! Same with the TV speakers in the living room (he might’ve fixed those by now, it’s been a while since the last update). It might…

Hell yeah. For anyone keeping up with the WAN show, this was a long time coming. I don’t expect the channel to change at all from our point of view.

Hopefully he can find the time to intelligently de-tech-ify his house now.

We support healthy decision making from people in charge.

Honstely? That’s the smartest thing he could’ve done.
When your passion develops into a big company like that and you’re still interested in doing what actually IS your passion, let someone else do the paperwork and administrative tasks.

It’s not fuzzy to me because so many of the graphical assets simply did not exist at all during the production of the original game, which is the key here. I consider THPS1+2 to be a remake as well: despite using the literal physics code, there is nothing about that game’s graphics that could run on a PS1 even when…

IMO Reunion isn’t a remaster, it’s a full-blown remake. This isn’t some PSP port with better textures and a higher resolution (to me, THAT is a remaster). This is in an ENTIRELY new engine!