Burnie Burns

I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity. ”

I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones. ”

There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It's a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it's one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we're doing individual shots. ”

We started about three years before YouTube existed, so we had to host all the videos on our own servers at a co-location facility. When we got so many hits on our first few videos, and we estimated our bandwidth bill was going to be about $12,000 a month, we knew that we had to establish a business model ASAP. ”

Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of ours, it could have been the show, but we didn't even name the company 'Red vs. Blue.' We named it something else to give people the idea that we were going to be doing more than that. ”

The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell. ”

When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch. ”

Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves. ”

If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them. ”

People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true. ”