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- ALEXIS GAY LEFT A REER TECH TO BE A EDY CREATOR. PERFECT TIMG
- ALEXIS GAY
- ALEXIS GAY
- COMEDIAN ALEXIS GAY MAK FUN OF SILIN VALLEY. AND SILIN VALLEY LOV HER FOR IT.
ALEXIS GAY LEFT A REER TECH TO BE A EDY CREATOR. PERFECT TIMG
Person of edy Alexis Gay has a lightful chat about workg the tech world New York and San Francis, pursug edy, buildg an dience onle, and creative eedom! * alexis gay comedy *
It’s been two years sce Alexis Gay qu her reer tech to plunge headfirst to edy, and, if she’s beg hont, that reckls nfince you feel pivotg away om somethg practil toward your passn has “a different vibe” now.
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I was worse at , but was much easier, ” Gay says. ”Gay’s edic vios riffg on tech culture and everyday suatns earned her a cent social media followg, which she’s parlayed to live stand-up gigs as well as her weekly podst, Non-Technil, where she terviews fluential figur, cludg Alexis Ohanian, Kara Swisher, and Mark Cuban, about everythg but their résumé’s certaly not a bad posn to be after two years of htlg. But growg a platform has ma Gay very aware that she has one.
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But orr to be good at edy, you first have to be bad at edy, ” Gay says. Growg up, Gay’s sole ambn was to be an actor. “I immediately fell love wh entreprenrship, ” Gay says.
”Gay left actg further behd as she moved om Fevo to Twil, which also meant movg om New York Cy to San Francis. “I realized how much of myself I had left back New York by movg away om actg, movg away om creativy, ” Gay says. ”Gay left Twil 2017.
COMEDIAN ALEXIS GAY MAK FUN OF SILIN VALLEY. AND SILIN VALLEY LOV HER FOR IT.
”Gay took a job at Patreon 2018 nng creator partnerships, which was the perfect mix of her skill sets across partnerships, operatns, and now beg somethg of a creator herself. Dpe Patreon beg “the bt job I’ve ever had, ” she says, Gay uldn’t shake what she’d been buildg onle wh her edy sketch.