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Angus (general manager)

team · in 56 sources (2020–2024)

Sources by year: 2020: 12 · 2021: 12 · 2022: 14 · 2023: 10 · 2024: 8

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Also named in the threads: aliabdaal.com, Ali's website (2016) · Ali promises Skillshare classes on how he films, edits and produces his videos (2019) · Ali's Skillshare classes (2019) · Book Club, Ali's series of book-summary videos (2020) · Ali builds a team for his online business · Part-Time YouTuber Academy (2020) · Ali hopes his business will make around $3 million in revenue in 2021 (2021) · Ali promises a video explaining what the people on his team do (2021) · Ali's interview podcast with entrepreneurs and creators (2021) · Ali works with his CEO coach Eric Partaker (2022) · Ali says he is releasing his life productivity system as a course soon (2024)

Same name, different thing

Angus (friend, mentioned from 2024)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Christian (10) · Part-Time YouTuber Academy (23) · Slack (7) · LinkedIn (5) · Final Cut Pro (4) · energy investment portfolio (2) · Tiago Forte (4) · Things 3 (4) · Feel-Good Productivity (book) (11) · Ali Abdaal's grandmother (4)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2024

Also named in: A Week in My Life · Vlog, How I Built a New $1m Business in 12 Months

2023

  • 2023-02-22 · My Favourite MacBook Apps of All Time — Ali: On 2 February 2022 Ali, Angus and Gordon drove to Gymshark HQ to meet Steve Hewitt, Gymshark's executive chairman, who ran a business planning session for them. — 00:10:04
  • 2023-03-22 · Why I Have 12 Full-Time Employees (as a YouTuber) — Ali: Angus, the general manager, is the main reason Ali can stay chill with a big team: managing 13 people himself would be a nightmare, he would be terrible at it and it would not be fun. — 00:16:06
    • Angus, now general manager, started working with Ali three years ago as a freelance writer of website articles, quickly became a full-time employee and rose to run the whole business. — 00:16:06
    • Rather than hire someone with ten years of experience running a team, Ali let Angus, with none, become general manager: he wants a business that promotes from within, with a growth mindset and levelling up. — 00:18:33
    • Ali's business is paying about £740,000 in salaries in 2023, including National Insurance and pension contributions, according to Angus. — 00:25:30
  • 2023-04-24 · How I Manage My Time - The Trident Calendar System — Ali's ideal week has blocks for the weekly team meeting, the team lunch, the content squad meeting and two meetings a week with Angus, his general manager. — 00:08:13
  • 2023-07-01 · I Asked MKBHD and Mrwhosetheboss How to Grow on YouTube — recommendation: Ali says he should only do what he fundamentally wants to do and is good at, and outsource everything else, preferably to someone who enjoys it and does it better, such as his general manager Angus, who loves spreadsheets and accounts. — 00:23:02
  • 2023-08-02 · 12 Tools I Use to Run My $4m Business — Ali: With 14 people on the team, Ali and Angus get a weekly report on how engaged and happy the team is from Teamspective, a Slack bot that asks the team questions every week. — 00:05:08
  • 2023-08-30 · I Tried 137 Productivity Tools. These Are The Best. — recommendation: Ali's team updates each other with Loom screen recordings instead of meetings, watched at double speed; Angus's Loom on the business financials, which Ali watched at 2.5x, saved a meeting. — 00:15:24
  • 2023-09-19 · My Most Productive Desk Setup Ever — Ali: After filming, Ali takes 90 minutes of Zoom calls, with Angus and with Dan, his online personal trainer and health coach, on the treadmill: 1 hour 26 minutes and 8,267 steps, aiming for 10,000. — 00:14:34
  • 2023-11-28 · If I Wanted to Grow An Audience in 2026, I'd Do This — Ali: Six years in, Ali's content pipeline runs on a team of 14 people, 10 of them on content, supported by a courses business, with Angus as general manager handling day-to-day management. — 00:10:16
  • 2023-12-08 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: In 2020 Ali's business started hiring: he had an editor, a part-time assistant and Angus, who did some writing. — 00:05:07
  • …and 6 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

2022

  • 2022-01-07 · 15 Books To Read to Change Your Life — Ali says he still sucks at managing and is trying to do less of it as the business grows, so he can focus on content while team members such as Angus handle team management. — 00:18:40
  • 2022-01-21 · My New Life Goals (2022) — Ali's team now numbers 17 people, but the early members, Ali, Angus, Chris and Elizabeth, hold much of the know-how in their heads. — 00:18:32
  • 2022-02-25 · How to Grow on YouTube - Live Stream with Ali Abdaal — Ali: About two years earlier Angus cold-emailed Ali asking whether he wanted to hire a writer; Angus is now a core member of the team. — 01:18:46
  • 2022-03-16 · The Best Headphones To Buy in 2026 🎧 — Ali calls the AirPods Max case totally pointless: Gordon and Angus in his studio never carry it, and neither did he when he used AirPods Max. — 00:08:54
  • 2022-05-12 · What Am I Doing With My Life? — Ali found starting a podcast a faff until Angus suggested the team take care of everything so Ali only had to turn up and have a conversation. — 00:25:58
  • 2022-08-19 · How I Manage My Time - The System That Changed My Life — Ali has partly delegated finding a new place to live, perhaps a live-work space or a commercial building he can also live in, to Angus, so it sits in his passive column until there are places to view. — 00:03:24
  • 2022-09-18 · My London Studio Tour (2022) — Ali: When Ali was in Cambridge, he, Angus and the rest of the team used WeWork hot-desk passes, at £300 per person per month, and went to the local WeWork every day. — 00:24:50
  • 2022-11-04 · How To Build A Life You Love — Ali: On Ali's team, Tintin, Alice, Angus and Bav (as heard) have an accountability group that meets every Monday at 5 p.m. — 00:18:13
  • 2022-12-16 · How I Failed in 2022 — Ali: Angus now runs the whole business side of Ali's company, and half the team works on the courses, the Part-Time YouTuber Academy and customer support. — 00:14:13
  • 2022-12-21 · The Power of Cold Emails #shorts — Ali: Almost three years before, as Ali was starting to need help, his friend Angus sent him a cold email saying he loved his content, was a writer and asked if Ali needed help writing; Ali hired him for a few days a week in January 2020. — 00:00:00
    • When Ali hired Angus in January 2020 he had about 400,000 YouTube subscribers and his business made about £100,000 a year; about three years later Angus manages the whole business, which has around 30 times the revenue. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-12-27 · My Regrets about Quitting Medicine — Ali: If Ali does not feel like filming a sponsored video, even on a deadline, his general manager Angus emails the sponsor to put it off a week, and sponsors are usually fine with that. — 00:17:47
  • …and 9 statements more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

Also named in: A Day in My Life as a YouTuber

2021

  • 2021-07-14 · How much I spend in a month… — Ali has about five coaches and Angus one; the business pays about $6,000 a month for coaching, a bill that will probably rise as it hires coaches for other team members. — 00:05:51
  • 2021-07-28 · How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time — Ali: From October 2019 to August 2020 Ali's team grew by two; Angus joined as a writer researching scripts and moved into a more managerial role. — 00:09:33
  • 2021-08-16 · I was an imposter for a day...here's what I learned. — recommendation: Ali calls Steven Bartlett's book Happy Sexy Millionaire genuinely excellent despite its click-baity title; he, Angus and John found many parts of the audiobook really good. — 00:00:41
  • 2021-09-12 · My Journey of Self-Acceptance — Ali realised that the three things he is grateful for are always other people or things, such as coffee, his desk setup, his house, Sheen or Angus, and never anything about himself. — 00:03:10
  • 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: On Mondays Ali's team gets together in the studio for a content brainstorm with the writers, the YouTube producer, Ali and Angus. — 00:03:19
    • As the business grew with its courses, especially the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, Ali found holes of expertise in his team and much of it overstretched, with Angus doing seven people's jobs and Jacob four. — 00:04:12
  • 2021-11-13 · How I Run this YouTube Channel - Day in the Life — Ali's leadership team, Ali, Angus as head of operations and Dan as his executive assistant and also head of HR, legal and finance, meets every Monday for 90 minutes. — 00:12:24
  • 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali: In November 2020 Ali, then full-time in the business after quitting as a doctor, had a team of about four: Christian, full-time editor in Romania, Angus, full-time writer, and Elizabeth, part-time assistant. — 00:26:16
    • Within a few weeks Ali and Angus made the slides and course material and announced the course on Twitter; Ali expected 10 to 20 people for a beta cohort, but about 350 signed up in late 2020. — 00:26:45
    • The Part-Time YouTuber Academy has four full-time team members plus paid student supporters and alumni mentors; Ali teaches six to eight hours a week while Angus, Elizabeth, Bath (as heard), Tommy and Alison run it. — 00:29:34
    • Most YouTubers run lifestyle businesses as highly paid freelancers; few build a team of 20. Ali does not think it was more fun with fewer people: he worked late then, and now Angus runs the business while he focuses on content and enjoys the team. — 00:32:00
  • 2021-12-24 · How Much Money I Spend as a YouTuber (2021) — Ali's business spent $18,540 on travel in 2021, mostly a trip to Monaco with a videographer, Amber and Angus to film the Deep Dive podcast with Oliver Cookson, author of Bootstrap Your Life, who grew MyProtein from £500 to £350 million. — 00:19:05
  • …and 5 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

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2020