A man spent 90 minutes telling YouTube everything it was doing wrong with gaming. They hired him anyway. > In 2014, Ryan Wyatt was working in the gaming industry when Google reached out about YouTube's head of gaming role. > Ryan had plenty to say. > His previous company depended heavily on YouTube, and he was frustrated by how the platform treated gaming creators. > So when he sat down for lunch with YouTube's chief business officer, he spent the next 90 minutes telling him what needed to change. > He didn't even realize he was being considered for the job. > But YouTube brought him into the interview process, and after 13 interviews, he got hired. > He was just 27 at the time. > When Ryan arrived, gaming videos didn't even have their own category on YouTube's homepage. > He believed gaming was a massive opportunity. He just had to convince the company. > Over the next eight years, he helped turn YouTube Gaming into its second-largest vertical, generating BILLIONS of dollars. > His team also helped launch features like channel memberships and Super Chat, giving creators more ways to earn money. > Then, in 2022, he left YouTube to lead Polygon Studios and help bring gaming into Web3. > Today, he's CEO of Cronos Labs, the team behind @UltApp and @CronosNetwork. He went from telling one of the world's biggest platforms what it was getting wrong to helping build one of its biggest businesses. Imagine if he'd kept his opinions to himself.