Linus Sebastian
| Linus Sebastian | |
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Sebastian in Pax West 2016.
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| Personal information | |
| Born |
Linus Gabriel Sebastian August 20, 1986 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Residence | Surrey, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Video presenter, technology demonstrator, and advertiser |
| Spouse(s) | Yvonne Ho (m. 2011) |
| Website |
www |
| YouTube information | |
| Channel | LinusTechTips |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Subscribers | LinusTechTips: 3,766,028 Techquickie: 1,324,420 ChannelSuperFun: 507,354 (2 March 2017) |
| Total views | LinusTechTips: 988,626,360 Techquickie: 138,034,345 ChannelSuperFun: 52,453,575 (27 February 2017) |
| Network | Fullscreen |
| Associated acts | NCIX |
| Subscriber and view counts updated as of 2 March 2017. | |
Linus Gabriel Sebastian (born August 20, 1986) is a Canadian YouTube personality, presenter, producer, and founder of Linus Media Group.
He is best known for creating and hosting three technology-oriented YouTube channels LinusTechTips, Techquickie and Channel Super Fun which have a combined subscriber base of 5.597 million. From 2007-2015 he had also been a regular presenter of technology videos for the Canadian computer retailer NCIX. In 2015, Inc. magazine ranked Sebastian 4th in a list of the "Top 30 Power Players in Tech".
As of March 2017, Linus Tech Tips is ranked the 5th most watched Science and Technology channel on YouTube. In 2014, Tubefilter named the channel as being within the "top 1% of Google's preferred advertising channels" on YouTube for the technology category.
From January 2004 to June 2005, Sebastian worked as a painter for the company Student Works Painting and as a lifeguard and swimming lesson instructor at Maple Ridge Parks & Leisure in Maple Ridge, British Columbia.
Sebastian was working as category manager for the Canadian online computer store NCIX. He was asked by the company to be the host for its technology channel, which was created to help demonstrate products. Sebastian and an unidentified cameraman and editor worked with limited resources, shooting videos with a camera borrowed from the son of the company's president, the first of which being a demonstration video for a Sunbeam processor heatsink.
Due to high costs and low viewership during the early days of the channel, Sebastian was instructed to create the LinusTechTips channel as a cheaper offshoot of the NCIX channel, to allow for lower production values without impacting the NCIX brand. He described TigerDirect and Newegg as competitors. It was created on the 24th November, 2008.
Sebastian did not develop videos full-time at NCIX. During his time at the company, he worked as full-time sales representative, a high-end systems designer, a product manager, and a category manager.
Sebastian founded Linus Media Group in January 2013 out of a garage, with Luke Lafreniere, Edzel Yago, and Brandon Lee. The group developed the Linus Tech Tips channel as an independent venture. Sebastian also began working on Techquickie.
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