Ari Lennox Quotes

When I first started YouTubeing, the idea was, 'Oh, YouTube is going to be a stepping stone to get to other places,' and I just totally don't agree with that. I think YouTube is amazing. The digital space is amazing.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didn't finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

I graduated high school, and I always wanted to go to college, but I also really wanted to work at a young age. At 18, I was pitching talk show ideas to different networks. I was a journalist.

YouTube came out when I was a sophomore in college, and I feel like I was one of the first people to put musical theater stuff online.

I didn't have the patience to wait to take a degree before starting work, because I wanted to run my own business.

There was a long stretch of time where I was making these videos, and everyone just thought I was a weirdo because I was making videos in my apartment instead of, like, going out, you know. And so I, like, it's hilarious now because everyone gets YouTube now. But, you know, in 2006, when I started making videos, like, no.

I create videos for my YouTube channel Chescaleigh and for 'Decoded,' a series with MTV.

The Obama campaign has adeptly used YouTube and social networks as a relatively thrifty way to do targeted messaging.

The YouTube revolution isn't a revolution in content consumption, although there's a huge number of content consumers. It's about how anybody with a camera or a smartphone can create a video and share it with the whole world.

I loved being able to support my family by making Vines.

This is an age where you could put anything on YouTube; people can make films on their own.

Don't go to business school.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

I never went to college. I started working when I was 17.

Thriving in the digital space is about constant commitment and engagement rather than being hit-driven like traditional media.

YouTube, for me, is the primary platform.

The Internet is a big reason I've been successful so far. It's working for a lot of new wave artists, which I consider myself a part of.

At some point, I talked about how I had never graduated college. I dropped out my sophomore year to start MercyMe 21 years ago. Part of the reason was I felt like I was treading water.

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

In today's world, working for yourself is actually the safer route, and working for a corporation has become the riskier proposition.