How to Be an Entrepreneur

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The personal side of entrepreneurship involves significant life events like losing a loved one and becoming a parent, which can become intertwined with the journey of building a project. Capturing moments like seeing the first picture of the rover back from Mars can be deeply impactful. The recognition and views received on videos created can validate the entrepreneurial spirit, even when driven by a desire to explore diverse topics. The engineer's innovative ideas led to patenting a design for a Halloween costume, showcasing a drive to pursue and materialize ideas that fuel the entrepreneurial spirit.

As one of the most successful creators on YouTube, Mark Rober doesn’t see what he does as a business. Instead, it’s a way to celebrate science in the most joyful way possible. While working as an engineer at NASA, he made his YouTube debut with a tutorial on how to make a gory Halloween costume with two iPads and a lot of duct tape. Over time, his videos became more elaborate, including a belly flop into a pool full of Jello, and a demo of a glitter-fart bomb to get revenge on porch pirates. Within a few years, Mark was teaching online science classes and selling subscription boxes for kids. Today, his YouTube channel has 5.5 billion views, 48 million subscribers…and–astonishingly, given that audience–less than 150 videos.

This episode was produced by J.C. Howard, with music by Ramtin Arablouei

Edited by Neva Grant, with research help from Sam Paulson.

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