Longtime YouTube exec Ben Relles has departed the company to work with LinkedIn's co-founder

Few people are as closely linked with YouTube as Ben Relles. The Wisconsin native has been making content on the world’s top online video platform since 2007. He joined the company as an exec in 2011 and spent 11 years developing new original programs for it. Now, that decade-plus tenure has come to an end. In a LinkedIn post, Relles announced that he is “headed to a new opportunity.” He has teamed up with Reid Hoffman and will work closely with the LinkedIn co-founder “on content strategy across a portfolio of his investments in AI, Web3, video and other seed-stage and growth companies.” Relles developed a close relationship with Hoffman in 2020 when the two innovators united for the Good to Vote campaign, which was initiated by Relles and funded by Hoffman. As a result of that push, 150,000 people registered to vote. The pair continued their partnership when Relles helped Hoffman author the 10th-anniversary edition of the LinkedIn co-founder’s book, The Startup of You. Relles told Tubefilter that the themes of that text — including “infinite learning, risk, and working in industries with momentum” — encouraged him to take a job alongside Hoffman.Subscribe for daily Tubefilter Top StoriesSubscribe Hoffman was LinkedIn’s founding CEO.…
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