May 7, 1998 - Present
Digital Philanthropist
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I\'ve literally worked with over a thousand people.
I hope to do YouTube until the day I die.
What\'s best for me is just to work when I feel like working.
Imagine I have like $10 billion and then I just give it all away and I\'m just like \'I can\'t be bought.\'... That\'s pretty powerful.
If you watch 100 episodes of \'SpongeBob\' and then the 101st is \'Adventure Time,\' you\'d be like, what is this? The same is true about your audience.
100 million means so much. I\'ve been making videos since I was 11 years old. This number in a way represents everything I\'ve ever done in my life and I\'m so grateful to everyone who\'s ever watched a video.
I grew up watching YouTube and I started making content at a really young age. It\'s really something I enjoy doing.
Once you know how to make a video go viral, it\'s just about how to get as many out as possible. You can practically make unlimited money.
When I meet smaller creators, my advice is just to make 100 videos and improve one thing each video.
My whole goal in all of high school was to never go to college.
I genuinely enjoy helping people.
I think we\'re due for younger presidents. I\'m tired of them always being in their 70s.
The beauty of YouTube is double the effort isn\'t double the views, it\'s like 10x.
I\'m trying to conquer the future.
Money is a vehicle to do bigger videos and make better content.
It\'s a world where I take 10 grand and light it on fire and make 20 grand.
I just want to make the best YouTube videos possible.
I\'ve never seen anything that says that videos need to be longer. Just make videos that people want to watch.
One dollar a day turned into two and then three. And then eventually I was making $10,000 a month then a $100,000 a month, then $1 million a month.
I want to be the biggest channel on YouTube and to continue making content my fans love.
Weirdly enough, the best thing for my mental health was giving into my innate nature to work. And the most depressed I get is when I try to restrict it, like, \'I don\'t work weekends\' or \'I don\'t work this day.\'
I really want to figure out how we can get more people eating something like Impossible meat.
All my friends revolve around work.
Your probability of being a billionaire is higher if you don\'t make that your goal. Just focus on making a company that is dope.
The videos take months of prep. A lot of them take four to five days of relentless filming. There\'s a reason other people don\'t do what I do.
I don\'t know why - and I\'m not just saying this to look good - I\'ve just always been a really nice guy.
I like money because I can hire more people and grow a business but not so I can increase my lifestyle, or whatever.
All I do is wake up every day and obsess over how to make the best videos possible. It\'s all I care about. It\'s the only thing that\'s ever really made me happy.
Honestly, I got my first brand deal for $10,000 and I gave it away. I got it, went outside and gave it to a homeless person. I don\'t want to play it up too much. It just felt good.
I can\'t envision a world where I\'m not making YouTube videos. In a perfect world, I live and breathe this, working 12- to 15-hour days until I die.