The Truth About Going Viral: Why Views Don’t Matter

What does going viral actually get you? For Tom Shaw, a self-taught developer and tech creator with 400k+ followers, a video with 6 million views brought in just 1,000 followers. One with a fraction of the views brought in 40,000. In todays chat, recorded just after Tom came off stage, David Savage talks to Tom about: 🔹 How COVID ended his marketing business and started his coding career 🔹 Why content, not a portfolio, built his freelance business 🔹 Opening up AI’s “black box” for audiences who don’t want a lecture 🔹 Why generative AI has removed the barriers to building, and where vibe coding goes wrong 🔹 Why tech moves faster than society, and the case for optimism