Emily Herrera talks about the anxiety of hiring her first employee as a creator. The real excitement in the creator economy comes from people staying in regular jobs while supporting creators they love, or discovering they'd rather work behind the scenes writing jokes for their favorites than chase fame themselves.
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Like hiring your first person as a creator, you're like, is my job real? Like, I have a lot of work to do and it's really like scary 'cause I'm in front of a lot of people and I don't want someone to mess it up. And this is like my whole stamp, but also like I can't be spending my whole day editing. Totally.
Totally. And like the real excitement, at least for all of us, is like that there are a lot of people who, who will continue to do their own jobs. Not everyone's gonna become a creator. Not everyone's gonna wanna become a creator. They will keep doing that, but they will support people who have individual communities who they love, people that they love working with. And it's really just like another unlock for the gig economy. But now it's, it's like, what happens when you try to become a creator and maybe you just don't like it, or maybe it's just not for you? It's like you now you'd wanna work with your favorite creators. Like, would I love to be, you know, a writer, like a, a jokes writer for Cody Ko? Like, that'd be fire. Like, I would love that. That's so— you know what I mean? And it won't even be because of the necessarily the money. It would just be because I love it. Yeah. And that's gonna be my kind of form of expression.
