Innovative Compensation for Creative Teams

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Oliver Gilpin is a British entrepreneur, building Telos Media. A holding company scaling a new YouTube channel every month. With the creative vision of his business partner Alvaro Calmet - they've gone from 0 to 10M subs in 2.5 years, earning $1m per year, with 90 team members. In this episode, I talk to him about: 1. How he runs so many channels without being involved with any of them… 2. Oliver’s hiring secrets to find operators who will run his YouTube channels for him 3. The exact company structure behind all of his channels (with over 80 employees) 4. And for the first time ever, Oliver opens up his books and shares all of the financials behind running a faceless animation channel RESSOURCES mentioned in the episode: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SaeCWdnXe4dzwvcT7DwieyknbHsrLZ20?usp=sharing https://nowcreatives.notion.site/YouTube-Team-Compensation-Methods-Tips-and-Principles-a7534f08a68649458c2d9527c6e9d8b4 🖥️ Follow Oliver and his work online: https://twitter.com/oligilpin https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-gilpin/ Telos.so 📲 Follow @backstagecareers on Instagram to get clips & highlights from the latest episodes: / backstagecareers TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:16 - Dropping out of high school to start an agency 00:04:06 - Why start an animation channel? 00:05:42 - Oliver’s first faceless channel - $30,000 Mistake 00:07:15 - Oliver's 2nd Channel (and most successful) 00:09:44 - The 5 animation channels Oliver is running 00:12:29 - How to build a faceless animation team 00:14:03 - What to look for when hiring an operator 00:15:44 - Hiring tactics to find A+ talent oversees 00:24:58 - First key hires for YouTube Automation 00:26:06 - Org chart for Oliver's 30 YouTube channels 00:28:28 - How Oliver thinks about profit share and incentives for his employees 00:31:59 - Hiring Strategy #2 00:34:04 - Oliver's systems to manage a team of 80 employees 00:35:30 - What does Oliver do all day? 00:39:09 - How much money Oliver makes 00:40:51 - Starting 1 channel every month in 2024 00:45:01 - Breaking down the economics of his youtube channels 00:48:37 - Revenue from Merch 00:50:41 - Managing 25 Foreign Language Channels 00:53:32 - How to start a faceless animation channel 101 00:56:28 - Oliver's Mission - What drives him ABOUT THE PODCAST: Backstage Career is a podcast where I interview the linchpins who are working behind the scenes with some of the biggest creators and entrepreneurs out there! My goal with these interviews is to give you an idea of what it’s like to work with these influential people, and to help you land a job working with someone you look up to and want to apprentice under. 🎯 Upcoming Interviews Target List: 👉 Tim Ferriss' research assistant 👉 GaryVee's DRock 👉 Patrick Bet David's Content Strategist 👉 Jaime the producer of the Joe Rogan Experience 👉 The Content Strategist for MrBeast 👉 Alex Banayan Author of "The Third Door" 👉 Ryan Holiday who apprenticed under Robert Greene