Linus Gabriel Sebastian (born August 20, 1986) is a YouTube personality of Canada, presenter, producer, and founder of Linus Media Group.
He's famous for creating and organizing three tech-oriented YouTube channels: Tech Linus Tips , Techquickie , and In TechLinked , as well as behind-the-scenes channels, Super Fun Funnel . This channel has a combined customer base of more than 8 million. From 2007 to 2015, he also became a regular technology video presenter for Canada's NCIX computer retailer who is now inactive. By 2015, Inc. magazine. placing the 4th Sebastian in the "Top 30 Power Players in Tech" list.
Starting March 2018, Linus Tech Tips is ranked the 7th most watched Technology channel on YouTube. In 2014, Tubefilter named the channel the "top 1% of Google's preferred ad channels" on YouTube for the technology category.
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NCIX and Linus Tech Tips
Sebastian worked as a category manager for the now-defunct NCIX Canada online computer store. He was asked by the company to host his technology channel, which was created to help demonstrate the product. Sebastian is assisted by an unknown cameraman and editor, and works with limited resources, recording videos with cameras borrowed from the president's son's company. His first video was a demonstration for the Sunbeam processor heatsink.
Due to the high cost and low number of audiences during the early days of the channel, Sebastian was instructed to make the Linus Tech Tips channel as a cheaper branch of the NCIX channel, to enable lower production values ​​without affecting the NCIX Brand. He described TigerDirect and Newegg as competitors. It was made on November 24, 2008.
Sebastian did not develop full-time videos on NCIX. While in the company, he works as a full-time sales representative, high-end system designer, product manager, and category manager.
Linus Media Group
Sebastian founded Linus Media Group in January 2013 from a garage, with Luke Lafreniere, Edzel Yago, and Brandon Lee. The group developed Linus Technology Tech Path as an independent business. Sebastian also started working on Techquickie .
In September 2013, Sebastian was interviewed by Chris Pirillo. Sebastian discusses the future of his channel and answers questions that have been sent to Pirillo through social media.
In an interview in 2014, Sebastian revealed that he could not sleep at night due to pressure to find out how to support his family while also hiring staff during the early days of his independent career on YouTube, having no initial capital to work with.
In 2015, the company moved into commercial office space for the first time, having previously worked out residential address in Surrey, British Columbia. The move process is documented in a series of vlogs that have become one of the most popular video series in the Linus Tech Tips channel history. Since then, Sebastian has rarely made an office vlog after moving.
Starting November 8, 2017, Linus Tech Tips , Techquickie and the Funny Funnel channel have 4013 videos, 498 videos and 153 videos , including product reviews and recommendations, creating logs, vlogs, and original web pages. Linus Tech Tips post videos every day.
In May 2018, it was announced that Linus aimed to buy the YouTube channel NCIX Tech Tips , but could not do it. Instead, Linus Media Group decided to create a new channel, TechLinked , bringing with Riley Murdock's former Tech Techno Important projects
The WAN Show (2012-present)
The WAN Show is a regular stream of Twitch organized by Sebastian and Lafreniere. The couple discussed topical news from the technology world, offered their opinions and answered questions. Each event is uploaded to YouTube after the first broadcast. There have been 226 episodes on March 5, 2018. Ever since the first incarnation of the show, other Linus Media Group staff have been intermittently holding in place of either Sebastian or Lafreniere. WAN event features include live audience chat stream, failed intro video & amp; the show never started on time. NitroblastDigital, one of the important chatters in Twitch, as well as a moderator at Luke Lafreniere's Twitch, is famous for his 'meme', such as a website to view short videos based on members of Linus Media Group.
Cooling the Whole Room Water (2014-2015)
"Whole Room Water Cooling" documents Sebastian's efforts to lower their working temperatures, as well as the room temperature of the room by linking their workstations to the watercooling loop and throwing all the heat out of the building. After 7 episodes over 7 months, Sebastian claimed the project was unsuccessful, illustrating that the system did not quite reduce the ambient temperature in the room. Sebastian mentions this largely because of the use of copper pipes, which resulted in most of the heat generated from their workstations being reintroduced into their workspace before exiting the building.
Scrapyard Wars (2015-present)
Scrapyard Wars is a series that follows Sebastian, Lafreniere, and sometimes guest competitors, as they compete to build the best performing computer within budget limits, time frames, and themes.
In the first season, Sebastian and Lafreniere were each assigned to make a $ 300 CAD gaming PC. It was concluded in three episodes after two days.
In the second season, couples were asked to each build a water-cooled PC for $ 500 CAD, without using "off the shelf" water cooling components. This season four episodes. Budget divided by $ 300 to computer and the remaining $ 200 into DIY water cooling supplies.
In the third season, Sebastian, Lafreniere, and Austin Evans guests (American technology YouTuber) were challenged to build the best price per PC gaming game with Unlimited Budget. The third season spanned a total of seven episodes.
In the fourth season, Sebastian, Lafreniere, and guests Bob Stewart and Rob Rosenberg from computer modification company BS Mods, were given $ 900 CAD to create a customized game PC added to the chassis. The fourth season concludes with a total of four episodes with the victory of Linus and Bob.
The fifth season was announced on the WAN Show, airing March 24, 2017. Sebastian and Lafreniere teamed up in Los Angeles, California to compete with Paul and Kyle from Paul's Hardware and Bitwit, after the first episode was uploaded on May 20, 2017. During this season, 10% points extra can be gained by making the most intelligent use of the "RGB" theme. The winners, at first, were Paul and Kyle. However, they were subsequently stripped of their titles because of the external hard drive they took from Paul's personal hard drive collection, which was not purchased with a US $ 500 fund allocated to them early in the season.
Season 6 aired on October 14, 2017, and featured JayzTwoCents and Dmitry Novoselov from HardwareCanucks. This time, the teams are divided as Sebastian and Dmitry vs Lafreniere and JayzTwoCents. The budget for this PC is $ 1337, but along with building a PC, teams are required to use some of their budget when purchasing needs like food and public transportation. This season ends after 4 episodes with the victory of Lafreniere and JayzTwoCents.
"7 Gamers 1 CPU "(beginning 2016 - end of 2016)
On January 2, 2016, Linus Tech Tips released a video showing a US $ 30,000 gaming computer featured at CES 2016 that can support seven individual players. The video creates tech news on a number of websites, and is watched more than a million times on uploaded days. Sebastian responded on Twitter, saying "In 8 years I have never reached 1 million views in a month let alone in one day." Thanks for your support. "
The computer has eight 32 GB DDR4 ECC RAM rods, eight 1 TB SSDs, two Intel Xeon 14 core E5 2697 v3 processors, seven AMD R9 Nano GPUs, an EVGA T2 1600W PSU, and are housed in the Mercury S8 Case with Asus Z10PE-D8 Motherboard WAS. The project is sponsored by Kingston Technology.
On January 31st, a follow-up video was released with further benchmark test results.
On February 16th, one more video about overclocking the $ 30,000 PC was released.
On February 23rd, a video was released titled "THE $ 30,000 7 GAMERS 1 CPU BUILD IS NO MORE! - Disassembly Stream". The system was disassembled by Sebastian during the flow at Twitch.tv.
"8/10 Gamer, 1 CPU" (2016)
On May 22, 2016, Linus Tech Tips released the sequel to their "7 Gamer 1 CPU" project. In the video, the system was created to allow eight users to play simultaneously, using Steam In-Home Streaming for streaming games in 4K resolutions to eight Zotac mini computers (either B or C models) in local area networks.
This new suite includes the Supermicro 4028GR-TRT barebones server chassis, two Intel Xeon E5 2699 V4 22 Core processors, eight Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti Amp Edition graphics cards, two Zotac GTX Titan X graphics cards, ten Kingston Kingston KC400 Business solid state drives , eight sticks of Kingston 32 GB DDR4 ECC RAM and two Noctua NH-B9 CPU cooling towers.
During the video, Sebastian stated that "7 Gamer 1 CPU is all about my vision for high-tech households in the future... high powered machines in cabinets that can allocate computing power,..., to where ever existed.. "
"Server Room Vlog" (2017)
On February 23, 2017, Linus Tech's channel publishes a video in which Sebastian introduces "Server Room Vlog", a series of videos where Sebastian and helper clean and manage Linus Media Group server space.
In the first video, they remove servers and cables, clean it and suck the room.
In the second video, they add new network cables and network switches to the room, reconfigure server positions, install new power distribution units, install new Wi-Fi access points, and add cable management loops.
In the third and final video, they install sound insulation into the room, adding dust filtering over insulation, installing special air vents, and adding RGB lighting to the rack.
The series turned out to be one of the most popular channels, with a total of 3.2 million views.
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Personal life
Sebastian has been married to Yvonne Ho since May 20, 2011. They have one son and two daughters.
In an interview with Tech.Co's startup tech website, Sebastian says that his favorite YouTubers are TotalBiscuit, Marques Brownlee and Austin Evans. In February 2014, Sebastian was one of the YouTubers who donated funds and support to Evans, who lost his property and house in a fire.
References
External links
- Official Site
- 'Linus Tech YouTube Youtube Channel'
- 'Techquickie YouTube channel'
- The YouTube channel is a 'Fun Super Channel'
- 'LinusCatTips YouTube channel'
- The 'TechLinked' YouTube channel
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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