Content Creation University
Auditing
MST-701 Master's core Year Seven Master's

The Creator as Chief Executive

Company structure, finance and taxes, operations, when a channel becomes a business.

Lectures
6
Total runtime
5h 22m
Attendance minimum
2h 41m

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. Christina Wallace on Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset The shift that comes before the company — operating with an entrepreneur's mindset rather than a producer's HBS Online 1 Ivy League 27 min
  2. Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 2: Company Formation - Michael Skok Forming the company — structure, founding teams, equity, and getting formation right Harvard Innovation Labs 1 Ivy League 84 min
  3. Ses 1: Introduction and Course Overview (MIT 15.401 Finance Theory I) The CEO's financial framework — valuation, financial decisions, finance vs. accounting MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 67 min
  4. Bob Sutton: Scaling Up Excellence [Entire Talk] Operations at scale — spreading excellence when the channel becomes an organization Stanford eCorner 2 Peer institution 58 min
  5. Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life, and Leadership Capstone: the creator who became a media CEO — intention, ownership, and leadership Stanford Graduate School of Business 2 Peer institution 64 min
  6. Practicum · working creator The TRUTH about How LTT SPENDS Money Lecture 3's finance framework and Lecture 4's scaling problem read off a real cost structure: the founder of a hundred-plus-person creator company opens the expense side of the business — payroll, buildings, the lab, equipment, his own pay — and shows what an organisation built on a channel actually costs to run Linus Tech Tips P Practitioner 22 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Linus Tech Tips — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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