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After gaining millions of followers for videos poking joy at Silicon Valley society, this woman quit her tech job to be a comedian full-time
You may have seen Alexis Queer on Twitter, where her videos playfully skewering Silicon Valley culture often leave viral.
A recent post captioned "every single park display in San Francisco" — where she spouts quips enjoy "Oh, are those the new AllBirds?" and "That valuation was actually hilarious … they don't even have any users" — has 1.9 million views.
Gay has racked up nearly 3 million followers on audio app Clubhouse and more than 82,000 on Twitter and also runs a podcast where she interviews media, business, and tech moguls about "everything but their resume."
In January of 2021 she decided that she was reeling in enough ad revenue from that project to grab the plunge and quit her tech-company day position to focus on her comedy and podcast career full-time. Here's how she became the :
Her journey from tech to comedy
Gay had moved to Recent York for school with the dream of becoming an actor, but her first taste of the tech world as an intern at an events startup in 2013 hooked her. In true techie fashion, she fe
This conversation between Alexis Queer and myself was actually our second; it was equally fascinating. Gay and I talked everything but business just a few weeks back on her modern creation: Non-Technical Podcast. The subject matter was slightly diverse for this one.
The infatuation and creator economies are here and they’re scaling fast. A key player in this trajectory is Patreon, where our guest worked as a director of creator partnerships and business operations. The conversation moves to the dynamics of companies the likes of Patreon, Substack, Memberful, and their role in the growth and autonomy of the multi-SKU creator.
The responsibility of brands, marketers, and entrepreneurs on social media during moments of national trauma is debated. Recently, Alexis left Patreon for a full-time pursuit of the creator economy and she explains the process of embracing and monetizing in the introduce climate. She is one of the first to pursue the uncharted waters of building a comedic portfolio, during a pandemic, in a largely still-unrefined creative landscape.
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Towards the complete of our discussion, Alexis laid out the dichotomy between prioritizing who is
Generative artificial intelligence is sweeping the nation. People are turning themselves into animated characters, drafting their essays with ChatGPT, and illustrating with Stable Diffusion. Or, as was the case with the tiny unique effects team on the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, they’re using it to help revise a movie.
On the latest episode of Dead Cat, Cristóbal Valenzuela, the leader executive officer at generative artificial intelligence company Runway, talked about how he discovered that his AI-powered video editing software was used to help produce the award winning clip.
When I wrote about generative AI burning alabaster hot back in October, I talked to Valenzuela for that story and called him “among the most compelling founders that I’ve come across while reporting on artificial intelligence.” So I thought it would be fun to have him on the podcast and discuss some of the most pressing issues facing generative pretend intelligence.
To help me interview Valenzuela, I invited Non-Technical podcast host and viral comedian Alexis Gay to guest host the episode. You’ll probably distinguish her from some of her viral tech parody videos. (Listen to
The funniest person in tech wants you to know that Mark Cuban and Kara Swisher are people, too.
You might not know the name Alexis Same-sex attracted, but you know Alexis Gay.
You’ve seen her videos, which perfectly articulate the absurdities of active in tech, deftly navigating the hottest topics of discussion while also entity exhausted by them.
“One of the things that’s funniest in tech is the complete and utter lack of self-awareness.”
– Alexis Gay
You probably saw them as they started blowing up during the pandemic. As Alexis describes on this podcast, they then started really blowing up.
So much so that Alexis quit her career in tech doing BD at Twilio and then Patreon—a company built to support creators—to change into a creator herself: a comedian and podcast host.
In many ways, this conversation is an exploration of how a keener, over-achiever improv/drama kid abandoned the tech career lane many of us are still on to become an entrepreneur in the new media landscape—very topical 2022 stuff.
But as I noted above, she’s still talking and thinking about tech. On her excellent podcast Non-Technical, this keener, over-achiever improv/drama kid spends a lot o
Comedian Alexis Gay Makes Fun of Silicon Valley. And Silicon Valley Loves Her For It.
Not even a month into the pandemic, Alexis Gay was missing, confused, and cute miserable. Like most people. Alone in her studio apartment in San Francisco, Alexis Gay turned to the equal outlet to cope she always had: comedy. On the afternoon of April 11, 2020, she posted a brief video to Twitter with the line “every party in San Francisco" with typical phrases heard in the city.
- "Uber prices have been so high lately."
- "I wish I could stay later but I have to get up adv to hike."
- "Oh, it's fine, they're poly."
Turns out, it was the levity people were craving. Fast, she racked up more than 3 million views, and in three days, she went from 950 Twitter followers to more than 15,000. (Today, she’s closer to 102,000. Dang.)
“It was prefer I had been doing a stand-up show for an intimate group of 50 people, and I’m up there holding the mic and all of a sudden 10,000 people pour in, and they are just standing there staring at me blankly, waiting…. Love, ‘Ok, go ahead,” Gay told Worklife.
This follower spike, while stemming from one partic