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Dropout CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy
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Episode Dropout CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy
We’ve got something special for you today. It’s my friend Hank Green, longtime YouTuber, science educator, and viral TikTok star, interviewing Dropout CEO Sam Reich.
Hank did this episode as a guest host over the summer, and it’s a fan favorite, bringing together two internet personalities that’ve known each other for a very long time and who have a lot of inside knowledge about how the internet, Hollywood, and entertainment all intertwine.
Links:
• Dropout’s Sam Reich on business, comedy, and keeping the internet weird | Decoder • How Dropout broke through in 2025 | AV Club • Dropout CEO on launching ‘Superfan’ tier, crossing 1M subscribers | Variety • How CollegeHumor reinvented itself for the new internet age | People • CollegeHumor shaped online comedy. What went wrong? [2020] | Wired • ‘I believe in this enough to try to do it myself’ [2020] | Digiday • Jacob Wysocki needed a minute to process that Game Changer | Vulture • Game Changer smartly weaponizes its online following | Mashable • Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer is betting on the human touch | Decoder • Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38B | The Verge
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Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Links in the notes 12
- https://www.theverge.com/podcast/781331/hank-green-sam-reich-dropout-collegehumor-game-changer
- https://www.avclub.com/how-dropout-broke-through-in-2025-tv-comedy
- https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/dropout-superfan-tier-price-explained-sam-reich-1236564699/
- https://people.com/what-happened-to-collegehumor-how-it-reinvented-for-new-internet-age-exclusive-8778836
- https://www.wired.com/story/collegehumor/
- https://digiday.com/media/collegehumor-sam-reich-future-potential/
- https://www.vulture.com/article/jacob-wysocki-dropout-game-changer-interview.html
- https://mashable.com/article/game-changer-season-7-episode-8-fools-gold-social-media-sam-reich
- https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/616820/philip-moyer-interview-vimeo-ai-google-youtube-creators
- https://www.theverge.com/news/775701/vimeo-bending-spoons-acquisition
- https://www.theverge.com/subscribe
- https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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