Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms
Decoder with Nilay Patel
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- February 23, 2026
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- Apr 29, 2026
Discusses Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the co-founder and now former o…
Summary
Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the co-founder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank and John have just converted Complexly into a nonprofit and given up their ownership of the company in the process. That’s some of the p…
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Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the co-founder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank and John have just converted Complexly into a nonprofit and given up their ownership of the company in the process. That’s some of the purest Decoder bait that ever was, because it’s all about how you structure a company and how you make decisions about changing that structure.