Conversations with my Team - Ep #1 - Tintin (YouTube Producer)

Have you ever wondered who works on my YouTube Channel? Meet Tintin Smith, a consultant turned YouTuber turned writer who is now my head of YouTube. Since starting as a content writer his role has evolved significantly. We'll talk about his journey from the corporate world to working for me, and he'll even answer some tough questions about how things really work behind the scenes...

00:00 Intro
04:00 Starting a YouTube channel
10:40 Quitting your job
17:20 Tintin's thought process behind YouTube
23:25 Getting the job at Ali Abdaal Ltd
27:16 How Tintin's role evolved
34:18 Thoughts on succeeding on YouTube
50:50 Downsides of working with Ali
57:20 Why Tintin stopped posting on YouTube
01:03:50 Surprising things about new YouTubers
01:09:30 The rationale behind Tintin’s current uploads
01:17:00 Tintin’s last words of wisdom

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[sanag]

Tintin and Ali's body language is so similar! Even their way of speaking!

[DrBrianKeating]

Tintin’s substacks - both of them- are outstanding and he’s a mensch

[PamePam]

Perfect, I really like meeting your team Ali. Greetings to Tintin.

[lisapetrison-beautyreviews]

I'm very happy to see your new channel, Tintin! Please keep making more videos on it - I think that those will turn out to be really helpful to me and many others.

[WumboSolutions]

Plot twist: this is the exit interview

[PokhrajRoy.]

Nice to hear about The adventures of Tintin. I’ve been curious to hear from them.

[GOATiology]

What’s Tintin’s new channel? I loved his old personal channel 😊

[billysmithltd]

Tintin Smith - What a super cool guy! Tintin's comments about Ali under-estimating the time it takes and working at 100% made me laugh. I quite often under-estimate the time it takes!

[Christianronniedrums]

Interesting that he found you were operating at a different speed. One of the first videos I watched of you I clicked away because I couldn't keep up with your talking speed. (I talk about 10% slower) 😂. But after realising that you talked about stuff that is genuinely helpful I tried again and got used to the talking speed.

[francoisreynier]

Fantastic candid interview with so many insights. Plse do others with the rest of the team!

[nadiahajoujiidrissi]

I loved hearing Tintins insights. Very inspiring ❤

[PeacefullySo.-vhtp]

This felt like going through a 1 hour therapy session both for Tintin and Me.

[Khodalyr]

Brilliant guy. The way he says "unfair advantage" in every other sentence is quite comical lol

[bradybythesea]

Ali just munching down gives me an insight into their zoom meetings

[MarissaK]

Hmm very interesting! I’d be nervous if my boss . Tried to talk to me about stuff like this on my lunch 😆 but they both had interesting points.

[NiagaraThistle]

What is this "second channel"? I am subscribed to your primary channel (Ali Abdaal) and this one (Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal). But what is this "second channel" you mention?

[georgereis]

I'm new to listening to your podcasts, so my question may not fit right. I noticed that Tintin frequently used the term, "Unfair Advantage" and wonder about that. I struggle with that term in general, but it seemed like many things that Ali has earned were called unfair advantages - being an MD, for instance. That may, or may not, be an advantage in the world of YouTube, consulting, productivity - but it is definitely earned. For me, I suppose I'd think of an unfair advantage as cheating - such as giving someone half the answers on the test because they didn't take the time to study (it's an advantage and it's unfair). The concept this term brought to me is that Ali can be successful because many of the things that he did to achieve his success are viewed as 'unfair advantages.' It seems to me that they may be advantages, but none of them seemed unfair. Am I missing something?

[colleenast]

I typically really like these Deep Dive conversations but after Tintin had said "unfair advantage" for the thousandth time I was getting annoyed. If someone works hard for their business it's not an unfair advantage it's hard work and dedication. I found that whole line of thinking really disrespectful to Ali.

[vgadgetsmx]

You guys talk very similarly, you kinda look alike

[gaithouri]

whats the crazy story behind the missing finger ? 🤔