Legendary YouTube creator MrBeast discusses the future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. They explore topics such as reaching one billion views on YouTube, the allure of dark aspects of human nature, integrating brand deals, creating engaging titles and thumbnails, changing nature of content consumption, and personal experiences balancing work and leisure in a relationship. They also touch on optimizing workday, expanding into the food industry, impact of YouTube channels, and admiration for creators like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.

Recap of spending the weekend with MrBeast, Andrew Wilkinson and Joe Gebbia. Topics include an evil genius affiliate play, MrBeast's glow up, being uncommon among uncommon people, billion-dollar energy drinks, and big takeaways from Tiny Talks.

Our full conversation with MrBeast, talking fame, burnout, marriage, Netflix, YouTube business, and the future. 

MrBeast, YouTube star, discusses managing employees, obsession with strategy games, working on holidays, beating other content creators, paying people well, bottlenecks, taking over the world, and his legacy.

Episode 402: Producer Ben breaks down his top 5 MFM interviews from 2022------Show Notes:(00:45) - MrBeast and Hasan Minhaj(05:30) - Palmer Luckey(14:20) - Dharmesh Shah(26:00) - Pieter Levels(35:50) - Alex Hormozi-----Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.-----Additional episodes you might enjoy:• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

MrBeast, also known as Jimmy Donaldson, is a renowned content creator and philanthropist who has taken YouTube by storm. In this conversation, he shares the ambitious vision behind his new show, “Beast Games”, featuring high-stakes challenges. He opens up about his journey from struggling creator to internet sensation, revealing his understanding of fame’s complexities. With hilarious anecdotes from his chocolate factory video shoot and reflections on ethical issues in the cocoa industry, MrBeast inspires with his commitment to creativity and philanthropy.

Episode 4: Today, hosts Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista), Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso), and Jesse Pujji (@jspujji) breakdown MrBeast’s $1.5 billion valuation and exactly what factors have allowed MrBeast to be so successful. Then, the team shares their strategies for coming up with ideas for new businesses, and Alex shares his most recent startup pitches. And finally, for Startup AMA we answer a listener question about the best and worst hiring practices.#TheCrazyOnes #Startups #EntrepreneurListen to The Crazy Ones here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_WSubscribe to Morning Brew!Sign up for free today:  https://bit.ly/morningbrewytFollow The Brew!Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrewTik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrewFollow Our Hosts!Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista)Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso)Jesse Pujji (@jspujji)Links: Paul Graham’s How to Get Startup Ideas How to get startup ideas in 10 diagrams Alex’s 7 strategies to brainstorm startup ideas Hiring Decision Template Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The greatest YouTube Creator of All Time MrBeast joins us in the studio today to discuss his new girlfriend, turning down $1 billion dollars, and why he wants to run for president. INDULGE! 00:00 - Start 02:35 - MrBeast humble flexes his riches 07:02 - Does More wealth make you lazier?! 08:03 - MrBeast's first video 10:52 - MrBeast's final video idea 15:44 - Elon Musk’s Twitter offer for MrBeast 21:35 - MrBeasts stalkers 31:27 - MrBeast's girlfriend 41:13 - Schulz reviews MrBeast Burger 46:16 - Schulz YouTube advice for MrBeast 47:22 - Was the buried alive video faked 54:58 - Beast’s foreign language dubbed channels 01:01:44 - YouTube is BETTER THAN Movies and Music 01:03:13 - MrBeast 2032 Presidential Run 01:08:45 - Uploading, delegating to his "clone" 01:14:44 - Power of storytelling for retention 01:19:32 - Old media not understanding power of YouTube 01:25:13 - MrBeast's old crew + making successful videos 01:29:46 - Thumbnails + old videos as examples 01:31:27 - Video that MrBeast thought would do well and flopped 01:34:01 - Andrew will be in a MrBeast video 01:40:52 - MrBeast slaps Andrew + growing with audience 01:44:25 - Most famous celeb in MrBeast's phone + power of influence 02:00:56 - Obsession - Food pantries, early YouTube & being an outsider 02:16:08 - First YouTube billionaires next year 02:19:43 - People not knowing MrBeast is an exciting opportunity for him 02:23:27 - Squid Game video breakdown 02:43:16 - Success of dubbing + employing experts + KNOWLEDGE 02:55:10 - MrBeast offered $1 BILLION for EVERYTHING 02:59:11 - Animations + future projects + storytelling 03:04:29 - Most emotional reaction + helping others + online hate 03:14:56 - how MrBeast met his girlfriend 03:25:04 - Alexander the Great inspiring MrBeast's domination 03:28:38 - "Hi me in 5 years " - Videos for your future self 03:31:20 - Feeling like an outsider + fitting in + levelling up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MrBeast discusses his Amazon deal, his company Feastables, future of YouTube, brand deals. Also covers content evolution, title optimization, collaborations, and transitioning to streaming platforms. Exploring audience diversity, engagement strategies, and upcoming projects with celebrities and creators.

This week we sit down with MrBeast to hear his full story, talk about his new $10M studio and his upcoming endeavors. Subscribe to our weekly Creator Economy newsletter, The Publish Press at www.thepublishpress.com