Linus Sebastian Biography
Linus Sebastian, born Linus Gabriel Sebastian, is a Canadian YouTube personality, presenter, producer, and founder of the Linus Media Group. He is best known for creating and hosting his YouTube channels Linus Tech Tips, Techquickie, TechLinked, and Channel Super Fun with a combined total of over 11 million subscribers. Before, he was a regular presenter of technology videos for the Canadian computer retailer NCIX from 2007 to 2015. He has been ranked at #4 in the Top 40 Power Players in Tech and is also the owner of Floatplane Media.
As of February 2019, his channel Linus Tech Tips is the 5th most watched YouTube channel and was considered to be in the top 1% of Google’s preferred advertising channels on YouTube for the technology category.
Linus Sebastian Age
He was born on the 20th of August 1986 in Ladner, British Columbia, Canada. As of 2018, he is 32 years old.
Linus Sebastian Wife
He has been married to Yvonne Ho since the 20th of May 2011. His wife currently serves as the CFO of Linus Media Group. Together, they have three children, one son, and two daughters.
Linus Sebastian Career
He was previously working as a category manager for the no longer operational Canadian computer store, NCIX. He hosted the technology channel for the company while working with limited resources. Later, he was asked to create the channel Linus Tech Tips due to low viewership and high costs. The channel he created was initially supposed to be a cheaper offshoot for the NCIX channel. Linus Tech Tips was created on the 24th of November, 2008. A few years later, he founded Linus Media Group out of a garage as an independent venture. Around that time, he also started working on Techquickie. In the early years, he had no capital to support the business as well as provide for his family.
He moved the business to a commercial office space in 2015 and documented the move in the channel. This moving process was one of his most acclaimed series of videos in the channel’s history. In May 2018, he was trying to purchase the NCIX Tech Tips YouTube Channel but he was unable to do so but instead, he brought along the former NCIX Tech Tips host, Riley Murdock, to host his other YouTube Channel Techlinked.
Linus Sebastian Net Worth
As of 2019, his total net worth is estimated to be $15 Million.
Linus Sebastian’s Notable Projects
FloatPlane Media
From Nov 2016, FloatPlane was announced on Linus Tech Tips.
Gaming PC Secret Shopper
Linus Tech Tips released a series detailing their experience in buying a gaming PC from 6 System integrators representing 3 different marketing tiers in Dec 2018.
iMac Pro Incident
Apparently, Apple refused to repair Linus’ iMac after they had damaged it in a product teardown.
8 (Or is it 10?) Gamers, 1 CPU
This is the sequel to 7 Gamers, 1 CPU which features eight players on one computer simultaneously.
7 Gamers, 1 CPU
This video, as the name suggests, features 7 gamers playing simultaneously on one CPU.
Scrapyard Wars
Scrapyard Wars is a series that features a team as they compete to build the best performing computer within the confines of a specified budget, time frame, and theme.
Whole Room Water Cooling
This features Linus’ attempt to cool their entire workstations as well as the room using water cooling systems.
The WAN Show
This video hosted by Sebastian and Luke Lafreniere discussing topical news stories from the technology world, offering their opinion and fielding questions.
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