Comedian Alexis Gay, the host of the podst Non-Technil, talks wh Eric Johnson about her favore people she follows onle, on this episo of the Follow Friday podst.
Contents:
- ALEXIS GAY LEFT A REER TECH TO BE A EDY CREATOR. PERFECT TIMG
- COMEDIAN ALEXIS GAY MAK FUN OF SILIN VALLEY. AND SILIN VALLEY LOV HER FOR IT.
- ALEXIS GAY (NON-TECHNIL)
- SF COMEDIAN ALEXIS GAY BRGS US THE TECH VERSN OF 'SH SAN FRANCISNS SAY'
- ‘IT’S AN CREDIBLY VERSATILE PIECE OF PUNCTUATN’: COMEDIAN ALEXIS GAY ON WHY THE EM DASH L
- ALEXIS GAY STATISTICS
ALEXIS GAY LEFT A REER TECH TO BE A EDY CREATOR. PERFECT TIMG
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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. 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.
COMEDIAN ALEXIS GAY MAK FUN OF SILIN VALLEY. AND SILIN VALLEY LOV HER FOR IT.
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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. ”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.
ALEXIS GAY (NON-TECHNIL)
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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.
SF COMEDIAN ALEXIS GAY BRGS US THE TECH VERSN OF 'SH SAN FRANCISNS SAY'
And I’m tellg everybody I’m gonna leave my job and be a edian, ” Gay says. ”Gay’s gamble has been workg out—a ltle too much, to her chagr, as she’s relearng how to let go of what people may thk of her.
Look what Alexis Gay is dog, ’” she says.
”Gay adms her woeful lack of populary was due to rg too much about everythg she do, which is ironic now as she’s learng to let go of perfectn and refe succs durg the next phase of her reer as a edian.
‘IT’S AN CREDIBLY VERSATILE PIECE OF PUNCTUATN’: COMEDIAN ALEXIS GAY ON WHY THE EM DASH L
Failure, ” Gay says.
ALEXIS GAY STATISTICS
CreatorsHow the former Patreon employee Alexis Gay ma the move om tech to full-time edy and ntent creatn. Photo treatment by Nile AlbumNot even a month to the panmic, Alexis Gay was lost, nfed, and pretty miserable.
Alone her stud apartment San Francis, Alexis Gay turned to the same outlet to pe she always had: edy. Like, ‘Ok, go ahead, ” Gay told Worklife. Gay had grown up wantg to be an actrs and had been mted to edy as a creative outlet on the si of her tech jobs for years.