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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Mr. Beast Became Successful on YouTube' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-08. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- Yeah, it's been crazy,
'cause I've been doing it since I was 11 and--
- Really?
- Yeah, so now I'm 23 and so it's just like,
basically every year it just got crazier and crazier
and I used to make a dollar a day back,
well, the first few years I wasn't even making money
off YouTube, but once I started making money,
I was making a dollar a day
and I saved up for a couple months,
I bought a microphone, saved up for half a year,
I got a computer and I've just always reinvested it
and so it's like, literally just all,
I mean, I was like, as awkward as they came,
no money, no nothing and I just basically,
just obsessed over YouTube every day for a decade.
- Are your first episodes available,
when you were 11 years old?
- No, because I had a friend when I was 13
that found my channel and so I deleted all the videos,
I got really self-conscious.
- Oh no!
- But so everything from 13 and up is there
and yeah, they're fucking terrible.
- That's still cool.
So what did you do when you first started?
Like, what was the first idea?
- The very first video, weirdly enough,
I played this stupid game
and some hacker killed my base when I was 11
and so I uploaded it
and my first video got 20,000 views instantly
'cause all the people that played the game was like,
oh shit, you can hack in this game?
It's a game called Battle Pirates,
I guarantee you no one listens.
- What is it called?
- Battle Pirates, no one here has ever heard of it.
- Battle Card?
- Battle Pirates.
- Battle Pirates.
- Yeah, it was a really small game
but I uploaded that and I got 20,000 views
and that was probably the best thing
that could have ever happened to me
'cause then I was hooked from day one.
Literally, like most people, it takes hundreds of videos
before you get like one view
and somehow the very first video I uploaded at 11
got like 20,000 views
and then I was just like, oh, I fell in love
and I've been hooked ever since.
- Wow, so it was kind of almost by accident.
- Essentially, yeah.
It was that and then,
'cause this was way before YouTube was even a thing.
Like, you know, no one was really YouTuber,
hardly anyone made money.
- When did YouTube first get, when did it launch?
- Like 2006 or whatever.
YouTube was a thing
but like the partner program wasn't really a thing.
No one was making money.
And it was definitely back before it was cool.
Like, when I was doing YouTube when I was 14 and 15,
like, now, you know, it's cool
if you want to be a YouTuber in high school or middle school.
Back then, like, no one gave a fuck, you know what I mean?
It was like, you're just worried
they would try to play your videos in class
or make funny or stuff like that for it.
- So, but how did it evolve to what it is now?
- Was it a vision?
Was it a slow, sort of a gradual increase in numbers?
- Yeah, I mean, it was about as slow as it gets.
I mean, I can, so like, when I was a young teenager,
I was getting no views, had no money, had no equipment.
And so, for the most part, it was just like,
I was just trying to scrounge money so I could buy equipment.
'Cause I was using my brother's old laptop.
And so like, my first couple hundred videos,
I didn't have a microphone.
Like, imagine just like crackly, terrible voice.
And so, once I got monetized, I saved up for a few months.
Like I told you, I bought a microphone.
I can just give you a mile high history.
And I saved up for like six months.
I mean, I was just doing video game videos.
And they were terrible.
But I saved up, I got a real computer.
So now I can actually record the video game in high quality.
I have a microphone, I'm like 15.
And I just kept going and going.
Trying to figure out, like, what are some of the hot spots?
Like, I essentially, up until 18,
I had been doing YouTube pretty religiously,
but I was making no money.
Like, this is kind of the turning point
was when I graduated from high school.
And my whole life, I was like,
I want to be making enough money
by the time I graduated to do this full time.
And I wasn't.
I was still only making a couple hundred bucks a month.
So, I graduated high school and my mom was like,
either move out or go to a community college.
And I didn't have enough money to move out.
But I really just, I hated school with a passion.
But she forced me to go to community college.
And that was the worst thing ever.
Like, that made me hate life.
Like, borderline suicidal.
I just can't stand, like, having to just sit there
and listen to this dumb stuff
and listen to some teacher read out a book.
So, what I did was,
I would act like I was going to community college,
but I would just work on videos in my car
and edit and stuff like that.
I had straight zeros.
And so now the clock had started.
'Cause like, once my mom found out, I was screwed.
- Were you aware of that?
Like, that you're running a risk?
- Yeah, exactly.
And so I would act like I was going to college,
that whole time, but I wasn't.
And I didn't have enough money to move out.
And that was kind of when I was just like,
15 hours a day, all in.
I was like, I'm fucked if this doesn't work.
And I actually, I had some videos pop off.
I couldn't tell you which ones,
but I had a month where I made 20 grand.
'Cause I just had some videos just do really, really well.
And then I came home and I was like,
"Yeah, I haven't been going to college."
And I moved out the next day.
My mom almost had a heart attack.
'Cause she doesn't understand YouTube or anything back then.
And she just was like,
"Man, this guy's going to work at McDonald's.
I wasted all this time.
Like I invested 18 years in this is what I get."
- Where were you living?
What part of the country?
- North Carolina.
That's where I've lived almost my whole life.
- And so how does she feel now?
- Oh, she's great.
- Is she flabbergasted? - She's beyond happy.
Yeah, she loves it.
Put her in front of her friends.
She loves talking about it, obviously.
- Oh, I always knew little Jimmy was going to be a success.
- No, she doesn't try to hide it.
We would fight all the time.
Even in high school, like, you know,
I never once studied, I literally wouldn't even take my books home.
I legit don't think I studied once all of high school at my house.
And so we would fight a lot.
I didn't have the best grades.
And so I would just make videos and she didn't understand it.
Especially 'cause back then it was just a whole different world.
Like, yeah, there wasn't really a thing as a full-time YouTuber and stuff.
And so it was a lot of arguments, a lot of drama,
but it ended up working out.
She's happy.
- The thing is, it's like nobody saw this coming, right?
So you can't blame her.
- Especially me in like the middle of North Carolina in a small town.
I had like horrible acne.
I'm, you know, especially back then, really awkward.
It's like no one, like people would have bet a million dollars
that I wouldn't be a YouTuber.
You know what I mean?
It makes no sense.
But I just like, I have, you know, hyper obsession and I love this.
And, you know, given enough time, anyone can solve it.
- Well, there's a lesson in that for people, really.
Like to just, if you do have a hyper obsession to something,
there's a lot of people that think that 'cause they're bad at school
or because they're not interested in school,
that they're destined to be a loser.
- Yeah. - And that's not true.
You can, the problem is school is too rigid.
Like regular public school system, sit down, underpaid teacher,
disinterested, not really connected with the work.
You're not connected with it.
You just can't wait to go home and do what you like to do.
- Exactly.
- And you get this thought in your head like,
"Oh my God, I'm going to be a loser."
I mean, that's how I was when I was in high school.
I thought I was going to be a loser.
- Well, and you take it a step further because I thought,
especially if you're like extremely passionate about something at a young age,
where most kids are, then you're even, it's more exacerbated that it's like,
you know, I didn't talk to anyone.
I hardly had any friends because I was so obsessed with YouTube.
And back then, just no one cared.
So it's like, I thought I was just like, just didn't even know how to speak.
Like literally, I just couldn't hold a conversation with a single person
because people would just tell me all you talk about is YouTube.
And I would try to talk about something else.
But back then I was so hyper obsessed.
I literally just didn't know how to.
- But what were you obsessed about?
Were you obsessed about other channels, your channel?
- Everything from like learning how to editing, the pacing of the videos, like
ideas,
what's going viral, what's trending, what's hot.
Especially back then, I had no idea what worked.
I mean, I had to like self-teach myself everything, even, you know,
frame rate on cameras, coloring of the video, just stuff like that.
- And how did you learn? Did you learn from YouTube?
- Yeah. Well...
- So like YouTube videos and tutorials or something?
- Most of my growth came actually after I graduated high school.
Basically what I did was I somehow found these other like four lunatics.
We were three of us for college dropouts.
One was a high school dropout and one, I don't know, he just like quit his job.
We were all super small YouTubers and we basically talked every day for a
thousand days in a row
and did nothing but just like hyper study.
Like what makes a good video, what makes a good thumbnail, what's good pacing,
like how to go viral.
And we would just call it like daily masterminds.
We would just get on Skype every morning and like some days, like I'd get on
Skype at 7:00 a.m.
And I'd be in the call until like 10:00 p.m.
And then I'd go to bed and I'd wake up and I'd do it again.
And, you know, we'd do things like take a thousand thumbnails and see if like
there's
a correlation to the brightness of the thumbnail to how many views it got.
Or like, you know, like videos that get over 10 million views.
It's like how often do they cut the camera angles or like things like that.
Really? So you, you microanalyzed?
Everything.
Yeah.
Just, I mean, for like, we were very religious about it.
And so that's, that's where most of my knowledge came from is I just surround
myself with these
lunatics and just every day, like we didn't do anything.
We had no life.
But everybody had sort of a similar vision.
Yeah, exactly.
And so we all had like 10, 20,000 subscribers when we met.
And by the time we stopped talking, we all had millions of subscribers.
And we all hit a million subscribers like within a month.
It's crazy.
Because it's like if you envision a world where you're trying to be great at
something
and it's just like you learning and fucking up and learning from your mistakes.
Also, my mom told me not to curse.
Sorry, mom.
If someone could just like edit out the swear words and give it to me.
Sorry, mom.
Yeah, so I could give it to my mom to listen to.
That would be great.
But like, you know, you mess up, you learn from your mistake.
You mess up, you learn from your mistake.
You in two years, you know, might have learned from 20 mistakes.
Or if you have like four other people who are also messing up.
And when they learn from the mistake, they teach you what they learn and stuff
like that.
Hypothetically, you two years down the road have learned like five times more
of the amount
of stuff.
So it just like helps you grow exponentially way quicker, if that makes any
sense.
It does.
It does.
So, but it's interesting that you thought about it that way in sort of a
systematic approach.
Exactly.
So it's not dumb luck.
Uh, no.
I mean, it was like, like they say 10,000 hours of mass or something.
Yeah.
Probably put in like 40, 50,000 hours.
I mean, we're talking like every day, all day, like literally nothing.
We had no friends outside of the group.
That was your life.
I'm actually rereading that book right now.
That Malcolm Gladwell book, Outliers, that talks about that 10,000 hours
principle.
Uh huh.
It totally applies to what you did.
A hundred percent.
I mean, it sounds like you were just all day, every day, and which makes sense.
And what do you have now, 90 million subscribers?
Uh, well, we, uh, across everything we're closing in on 200 million subscribers.
Yeah, because, uh, have you seen our, our dub channels?
No.
Uh, can you pull that up?
Just search Mr. Beast and Esteban.
You also, we actually, which I'm kind of curious why you don't do this.
We do our videos in other languages as well.
Really?
Yeah.
And so, and what's, I, I can't wait to get, to show you this.
Because I actually have a really cool story.
Here, just go to the channel, so you can tell us it.
Who, uh, who does this?
Uh, we do.
So you hire someone?
Hit videos?
Yeah, we have voice actors and everything.
Wow.
So these are the exact same videos on my main channel, but we, we pay voice
actors to dub over
them.
We translate the text and the video, everything.
Mr. Beast in Espanol.
Yeah.
That was actually one of the fastest growing channels last year.
And it's just our video stuff.
That's so smart.
Okay.
Now click on a video so we can kind of hear it.
And so scroll down so we can see the comments.
It's all in, uh, Spanish, like.
That's dope.
Yeah.
So that's, uh, now just, I won't pull them all up, but now.
Any other countries?
Yeah.
Search Mr. Beast Brazil.
We do a bunch of languages.
So you got a Portuguese translator as well.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's dope.
Yeah.
Same thing here.
I love it.
Oh, man.
What a great idea, man.
Yeah.
And so, cause you know, uh, if you Google it, it's like only whatever, less
than 10% of
the world speaks English.
So 90% of the world can't even enjoy your content.
And when, and when I realized that, I was like, wait a minute, 90% of my, the
world can't
even watch this stuff.
Um, and so go back to the Spanish one real quick, because that's our, our
biggest one.
And sorry for anyone watching who doesn't have the visuals.
So set it to most popular deals.
Like we just started doing this like six months ago and it's crazy.
Like how viral some of these videos are going.
51 million.
Yeah.
And the problem with me is like, I don't know if someone's going to translate,
if they're
going to say exactly what I said.
Well, you have quality control.
So we have like, before video gets uploaded, we have three different people who
basically
write the transcript.
And then if the words don't line up on all three, then are, or sorry, let me
think about
the process.
We have something like that.
Cause I was worried about that as well.
I think we, we take the original transcript and then we have it dubbed.
And then, uh, after stuff, we have like two different people write out.
And if it doesn't line up with the original, then there's like, uh, it's a red
flag.
And then we look at it.
Interesting.
Yeah.
We built some system where I don't have to worry about that.
Oh, and the final point is in Spanish, the guy who does my dubs is the same guy
who
dubs Spider-Man.
We've managed to convince them.
So a lot of those comments are like, why does he sound like Spider-Man or is Mr.
V.
Spider-Man?
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
And so what we do is when we go into these markets, we get celebrities to do my,
my voice.
So then like the local people in the language freak out.
So like, all right, Japan's coming up and I can't say who, but we secured like
a, a giant
voice actor from an anime to do my dubs.
And whenever we launch in Japan, I know they're going to lose their freaking
minds.
That's a brilliant idea.
That's so smart.
So you have how many employees then?
Uh, I mean, across everything over a hundred.
I don't know.
It's been.
Wow.
Yeah.
And what are you, 23?
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
It's wild.
I think I just had the blessing of finding what I loved at a young age.
So like, cause to get to this level, it takes, you know, a decade.
Most people don't find what they love until they're young twenties.
So they'd be where I'm at in their thirties.
I just lucked out and found it when I was really young.
It's that, but it's also your vision.
The fact, one of the things that I was really impressed by when I started
looking into you
after my daughter introduced me is that you invest so much money into the show.
All the money I make.
I don't, I don't, I don't, why do I need money?
So you don't like go crazy?
You don't have a Ferrari or anything nuts?
No, I think living your life chasing like a nicer, nicer car and a bigger and
bigger
box to live in is kind of like a dumb way to go about life.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I, I actually, funny enough, I lived in like a super below average home and
I kind
of learned why famous people don't live in a below average homes.
Cause someone broke in, stole everything I owned.
So I had to, I had to get a little nicer house for security reasons.
But before I was robbed, I mean like my place was like a little duplex, 700 a
month.
You get a roommate's 360 split, right?
Yeah.
And just drive a normal car.
Well now I drive a Tesla just cause of the, you know, getting off of gas and
stuff like that.
Right.
But yeah.
So you don't go crazy at all with cash, you know?
I really try not to.
I think that's like just a bad way to go about life.
Also, it is a little hypocritical because I run a nonprofit and you know, we,
have you seen our beast philanthropy channel?
No.
Can you pull that up as well?
We do a lot of stuff for helping people.
And so also if I lived in a $10 million mansion while I'm feeding people and
trying to help people else,
in my eyes, it's also a little hypocritical as well.
So in every area, I just, I feel like it's just better if I just live below my
knees.
You're just very wise for a young man.
Cause a lot of 23 year olds will be balling out of their fucking mind right now.
Zoom out?
Well, yeah, I also have some stories about that too, but.
You do?
Yeah.
Cause I did have a phase where I did ball out a little bit.
And then I just, I realized like, yeah, this doesn't make me happy.
What did you do during the balling out phase?
Uh, I bought an I8 and I also bought some designer clothes,
like some thousand dollar shirts and stuff like that.
Um, ironically, all of which was stolen when my house was broken into.
So it was kind of perfect.
Cause I was like, I don't know if I really care about this stuff anymore.
And then someone just stole all my expensive shit.
I was like, perfect.

How Mr. Beast Became Successful on YouTube

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- Yeah, it's been crazy,
'cause I've been doing it since I was 11 and--
- Really?
- Yeah, so now I'm 23 and so it's just like,
basically every year it just got crazier and crazier
and I used to make a dollar a day back,
well, the first few years I wasn't even making money
off YouTube, but once I started making money,
I was making a dollar a day
and I saved up for a couple months,
I bought a microphone, saved up for half a year,
I got a computer and I've just always reinvested it
and so it's like, literally just all,
I mean, I was like, as awkward as they came,
no money, no nothing and I just basically,
just obsessed over YouTube every day for a decade.
- Are your first episodes available,
when you were 11 years old?
- No, because I had a friend when I was 13
that found my channel and so I deleted all the videos,
I got really self-conscious.
- Oh no!
- But so everything from 13 and up is there
and yeah, they're fucking terrible.
- That's still cool.
So what did you do when you first started?
Like, what was the first idea?
- The very first video, weirdly enough,
I played this stupid game
and some hacker killed my base when I was 11
and so I uploaded it
and my first video got 20,000 views instantly
'cause all the people that played the game was like,
oh shit, you can hack in this game?
It's a game called Battle Pirates,
I guarantee you no one listens.
- What is it called?
- Battle Pirates, no one here has ever heard of it.
- Battle Card?
- Battle Pirates.
- Battle Pirates.
- Yeah, it was a really small game
but I uploaded that and I got 20,000 views
and that was probably the best thing
that could have ever happened to me
'cause then I was hooked from day one.
Literally, like most people, it takes hundreds of videos
before you get like one view
and somehow the very first video I uploaded at 11
got like 20,000 views
and then I was just like, oh, I fell in love
and I've been hooked ever since.
- Wow, so it was kind of almost by accident.
- Essentially, yeah.
It was that and then,
'cause this was way before YouTube was even a thing.
Like, you know, no one was really YouTuber,
hardly anyone made money.
- When did YouTube first get, when did it launch?
- Like 2006 or whatever.
YouTube was a thing
but like the partner program wasn't really a thing.
No one was making money.
And it was definitely back before it was cool.
Like, when I was doing YouTube when I was 14 and 15,
like, now, you know, it's cool
if you want to be a YouTuber in high school or middle school.
Back then, like, no one gave a fuck, you know what I mean?
It was like, you're just worried
they would try to play your videos in class
or make funny or stuff like that for it.
- So, but how did it evolve to what it is now?
- Was it a vision?
Was it a slow, sort of a gradual increase in numbers?
- Yeah, I mean, it was about as slow as it gets.
I mean, I can, so like, when I was a young teenager,
I was getting no views, had no money, had no equipment.
And so, for the most part, it was just like,
I was just trying to scrounge money so I could buy equipment.
'Cause I was using my brother's old laptop.
And so like, my first couple hundred videos,
I didn't have a microphone.
Like, imagine just like crackly, terrible voice.
And so, once I got monetized, I saved up for a few months.
Like I told you, I bought a microphone.
I can just give you a mile high history.
And I saved up for like six months.
I mean, I was just doing video game videos.
And they were terrible.
But I saved up, I got a real computer.
So now I can actually record the video game in high quality.
I have a microphone, I'm like 15.
And I just kept going and going.
Trying to figure out, like, what are some of the hot spots?
Like, I essentially, up until 18,
I had been doing YouTube pretty religiously,
but I was making no money.
Like, this is kind of the turning point
was when I graduated from high school.
And my whole life, I was like,
I want to be making enough money
by the time I graduated to do this full time.
And I wasn't.
I was still only making a couple hundred bucks a month.
So, I graduated high school and my mom was like,
either move out or go to a community college.
And I didn't have enough money to move out.
But I really just, I hated school with a passion.
But she forced me to go to community college.
And that was the worst thing ever.
Like, that made me hate life.
Like, borderline suicidal.
I just can't stand, like, having to just sit there
and listen to this dumb stuff
and listen to some teacher read out a book.
So, what I did was,
I would act like I was going to community college,
but I would just work on videos in my car
and edit and stuff like that.
I had straight zeros.
And so now the clock had started.
'Cause like, once my mom found out, I was screwed.
- Were you aware of that?
Like, that you're running a risk?
- Yeah, exactly.
And so I would act like I was going to college,
that whole time, but I wasn't.
And I didn't have enough money to move out.
And that was kind of when I was just like,
15 hours a day, all in.
I was like, I'm fucked if this doesn't work.
And I actually, I had some videos pop off.
I couldn't tell you which ones,
but I had a month where I made 20 grand.
'Cause I just had some videos just do really, really well.
And then I came home and I was like,
"Yeah, I haven't been going to college."
And I moved out the next day.
My mom almost had a heart attack.
'Cause she doesn't understand YouTube or anything back then.
And she just was like,
"Man, this guy's going to work at McDonald's.
I wasted all this time.
Like I invested 18 years in this is what I get."
- Where were you living?
What part of the country?
- North Carolina.
That's where I've lived almost my whole life.
- And so how does she feel now?
- Oh, she's great.
- Is she flabbergasted? - She's beyond happy.
Yeah, she loves it.
Put her in front of her friends.
She loves talking about it, obviously.
- Oh, I always knew little Jimmy was going to be a success.
- No, she doesn't try to hide it.
We would fight all the time.
Even in high school, like, you know,
I never once studied, I literally wouldn't even take my books home.
I legit don't think I studied once all of high school at my house.
And so we would fight a lot.
I didn't have the best grades.
And so I would just make videos and she didn't understand it.
Especially 'cause back then it was just a whole different world.
Like, yeah, there wasn't really a thing as a full-time YouTuber and stuff.
And so it was a lot of arguments, a lot of drama,
but it ended up working out.
She's happy.
- The thing is, it's like nobody saw this coming, right?
So you can't blame her.
- Especially me in like the middle of North Carolina in a small town.
I had like horrible acne.
I'm, you know, especially back then, really awkward.
It's like no one, like people would have bet a million dollars
that I wouldn't be a YouTuber.
You know what I mean?
It makes no sense.
But I just like, I have, you know, hyper obsession and I love this.
And, you know, given enough time, anyone can solve it.
- Well, there's a lesson in that for people, really.
Like to just, if you do have a hyper obsession to something,
there's a lot of people that think that 'cause they're bad at school
or because they're not interested in school,
that they're destined to be a loser.
- Yeah. - And that's not true.
You can, the problem is school is too rigid.
Like regular public school system, sit down, underpaid teacher,
disinterested, not really connected with the work.
You're not connected with it.
You just can't wait to go home and do what you like to do.
- Exactly.
- And you get this thought in your head like,
"Oh my God, I'm going to be a loser."
I mean, that's how I was when I was in high school.
I thought I was going to be a loser.
- Well, and you take it a step further because I thought,
especially if you're like extremely passionate about something at a young age,
where most kids are, then you're even, it's more exacerbated that it's like,
you know, I didn't talk to anyone.
I hardly had any friends because I was so obsessed with YouTube.
And back then, just no one cared.
So it's like, I thought I was just like, just didn't even know how to speak.
Like literally, I just couldn't hold a conversation with a single person
because people would just tell me all you talk about is YouTube.
And I would try to talk about something else.
But back then I was so hyper obsessed.
I literally just didn't know how to.
- But what were you obsessed about?
Were you obsessed about other channels, your channel?
- Everything from like learning how to editing, the pacing of the videos, like
ideas,
what's going viral, what's trending, what's hot.
Especially back then, I had no idea what worked.
I mean, I had to like self-teach myself everything, even, you know,
frame rate on cameras, coloring of the video, just stuff like that.
- And how did you learn? Did you learn from YouTube?
- Yeah. Well...
- So like YouTube videos and tutorials or something?
- Most of my growth came actually after I graduated high school.
Basically what I did was I somehow found these other like four lunatics.
We were three of us for college dropouts.
One was a high school dropout and one, I don't know, he just like quit his job.
We were all super small YouTubers and we basically talked every day for a
thousand days in a row
and did nothing but just like hyper study.
Like what makes a good video, what makes a good thumbnail, what's good pacing,
like how to go viral.
And we would just call it like daily masterminds.
We would just get on Skype every morning and like some days, like I'd get on
Skype at 7:00 a.m.
And I'd be in the call until like 10:00 p.m.
And then I'd go to bed and I'd wake up and I'd do it again.
And, you know, we'd do things like take a thousand thumbnails and see if like
there's
a correlation to the brightness of the thumbnail to how many views it got.
Or like, you know, like videos that get over 10 million views.
It's like how often do they cut the camera angles or like things like that.
Really? So you, you microanalyzed?
Everything.
Yeah.
Just, I mean, for like, we were very religious about it.
And so that's, that's where most of my knowledge came from is I just surround
myself with these
lunatics and just every day, like we didn't do anything.
We had no life.
But everybody had sort of a similar vision.
Yeah, exactly.
And so we all had like 10, 20,000 subscribers when we met.
And by the time we stopped talking, we all had millions of subscribers.
And we all hit a million subscribers like within a month.
It's crazy.
Because it's like if you envision a world where you're trying to be great at
something
and it's just like you learning and fucking up and learning from your mistakes.
Also, my mom told me not to curse.
Sorry, mom.
If someone could just like edit out the swear words and give it to me.
Sorry, mom.
Yeah, so I could give it to my mom to listen to.
That would be great.
But like, you know, you mess up, you learn from your mistake.
You mess up, you learn from your mistake.
You in two years, you know, might have learned from 20 mistakes.
Or if you have like four other people who are also messing up.
And when they learn from the mistake, they teach you what they learn and stuff
like that.
Hypothetically, you two years down the road have learned like five times more
of the amount
of stuff.
So it just like helps you grow exponentially way quicker, if that makes any
sense.
It does.
It does.
So, but it's interesting that you thought about it that way in sort of a
systematic approach.
Exactly.
So it's not dumb luck.
Uh, no.
I mean, it was like, like they say 10,000 hours of mass or something.
Yeah.
Probably put in like 40, 50,000 hours.
I mean, we're talking like every day, all day, like literally nothing.
We had no friends outside of the group.
That was your life.
I'm actually rereading that book right now.
That Malcolm Gladwell book, Outliers, that talks about that 10,000 hours
principle.