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There are big things afoot at Nerdist Industries. It’s been less than a month since the company launched its YouTube partner channel, but even as pioneers of this new platform, they seem to be making significant strides. How do you define success in unknown territory? For founder Chris Hardwick, it’s not necessarily views or shares — it’s producing the things he loves and keeping his audience engaged. “We make the stuff that we would want to consume,” says Peter Levin, CEO of Nerdist. “That’s the metric we use, for better for worse, and our YouTube channel is a very clear indication of that. We’re doing shows with people that we know and like, and we’re doing them about stuff that we want to consume.” Levin previously co-founded company GeekChicDaily, but joined forces with Nerdist and Hardwick in 2011 to form what is now Nerdist Industries. “What Chris had created in such a short amount of time was very...

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