March 28, 2022
#1788 – Mr. Beast | Joe Rogan Experience
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Key Takeaways
- Bet on yourself! Mr. Beast reinvests every single dollar he makes back into his content or charity.
- He would feel hypocritical if he was getting rich while simultaneously running a philanthropy program
- When the group makes a mistake, the group learns from the mistake
- Daily Masterminds – Mr. Beast’s group of dropouts that talked YouTube strategy every single day for 1000 days straight
- When you work alone, you have to make every single mistake yourself
- Mentorship and peer collaboration is the key to exponential growth, the best knowledge is efficient knowledge
- All MrBeast videos are dubbed in other languages
- Less than 10% of the world speaks English, which leaves 90% of the world that can’t enjoy your content
- This content strategy can expand your reach exponentially
- The video with 30,000,000 views usually didn’t put in 30x the effort of a video with 1,000,000 views – It’s all about the idea!
- Mr. Beast has a Google Doc with thousands of ideas–200 of them have easy viral potential. But, he’s selective on the ideas to execute.
- Quality > Quantity – “It’s much easier to get 5,000,000 views on 1 video than to get 100,000 views on 50 videos” – Mr. Beast
- “You have to find what you love. If you find what you love and you obsess over it day after day for a decade, you’re going to achieve some form of success. If you don’t truly love it, you’re going to quit way before you get that compound growth and ultra-levels of success.” – Mr. Beast
Intro
- Jimmy “Mr. Beast” Donaldson (MrBeast, @MrBeast) is one of the most successful YouTubers in history. He joins JRE to discuss his YouTube journey, how to generate ideas and viral content strategy. This is a must-read for creators!
- Host: Joe Rogan (@joerogan)
How Mr. Beast Got Started
- Mr. Beast started content creation when he was 11 (he’s now 23)
- The first video he ever made was a hack for a game called Battle Pirates…got 20,000 views right off the bat
- “That was the best thing that could have ever happened to me, I was hooked from day one” – Mr. Beast
- Feels blessed to find what he loved at a young age
- Started by making $1/day on YouTube, always reinvested his earnings
- Saved up to buy a microphone, then a computer, and more equipment
- Still reinvests every dollar he makes today into his content and charity
- Mom’s ultimatum: move out or go to community college
- Pretended to go to community college, but spent all his time creating and editing videos–getting straight 0s on his schoolwork. He was never interested in school.
- “The clock had started because once my mom found out, I’d be screwed” – Mr. Beast
- Finally had a $20,000 month and broke the news to his mom, she still had her doubts
Daily Masterminds
- Daily Masterminds – Group of high school and college dropouts that talked YouTube strategy every single day for 1000 days straight
- “Somehow I found these other four lunatics” – Mr. Beast
- Some days, Mr. Beast would join the skype call at 7 am and get off at 10 pm, then do it again tomorrow
- “I have hyper-obsession and I love it, you give it enough time and anyone can solve [YouTube]” – Mr. Beast
- Mentorship and peer collaboration is the key to exponential growth, the best knowledge is efficient knowledge
- Thinktank examples: How often do camera angles cut in videos that get millions of views? How do brightness levels of thumbnails affect clicks?
- Micro-analyzed the entire YouTube platform
- When the group makes a mistake, the group learns from the mistake
- When you work alone, you have to make every single mistake yourself
Idea Generation
- The video with 30,000,000 views usually didn’t put in 30x the effort of a video with 1,000,000 views – It’s all about the idea!
- Mr. Beast has a Google Doc with thousands of ideas–200 of them have easy viral potential
- There’s never a lack of MrBeast video ideas, it’s a matter of feasible execution
- Mr. Beast uses a word generation strategy for brainstorming ideas
- Dog: “I adopted 100 dogs” or “I gave a dog $1000 worth of dog treats”
- “When I intake inspiration and I see what pops inside my head, that’s been my most effective way to come up with ideas” – Mr. Beast
- He’s even used lucid dreaming as a source of inspiration
- The idea has to be well executed and the content has to be high quality
- “I have no problem killing a video even if we’ve spent a million dollars on it” – Mr. Beast
- Quality > Quantity – “It’s much easier to get 5,000,000 views on one video than to get 100,000 views on 50 videos” – Mr. Beast
MrBeast Dubbed for the World
- All MrBeast videos are dubbed in other languages
- Less than 10% of the world speaks English, which leaves 90% of the world that can’t enjoy your content
- Hires local celebrities to do the voice dubbing, they love it!
- The same guy who dubs Mr. Beast in Spanish is also dubbed Spider-Man
- Will be using a famous anime voice actor for an upcoming Japanese dubbing, Mr. beast knows it will be a hit
- Now offering dubbing as a service through Unilingo
- Any YouTube channel can now reach their non-English speaking audience
MrBeast Main YouTube Channel
- Mr. Beast reinvests every single dollar he makes back into his content or charity
- Sometimes he even runs out of money and needs to take out a loan
- Many of the videos on the main channel do not turn a profit
- Supplements profits from the react and gaming channels so he can lose money on the main channel
- MrBeast channel has no intention of going independent
- All roads point to YouTube – “Instead of thinking about building my own platform, I can think about building businesses and leveraging my audience off of YouTube” – Mr. Beast
- The grind doesn’t stop, Mr. Beast wants to do YouTube for at least the next 10 years – “Why would I not want to be the biggest YouTuber on the platform?” – Mr. Beast
- I Bought A Private Island
- Accidently bought an island with no sand, had to import sand in to make a beach
- Took a major loss on this video
- $456,000 Squid Game In Real Life!
- The most expensive video he’s ever created, over $4 million
- Had to hop on the trend while it was hot, so production had to be quick
- I Ran A Marathon In The World’s Largest Shoes
- Ran (walked) a marathon in size 40 shoes
- Each shoe was five pounds
- The MrBeast channel is always growing, hit his DMs if you’re interested in content production!
MrBeast Affiliated Businesses, Channels & Charity
- MrBeast Burger: Local mom & pop restaurants can sign up to make them, and then they are delivered by 3rd party apps
- Really helped some local restaurants in business shut-downs during COVID
- Feastables MrBeast Bar: New semi-healthy chocolate bar with minimal ingredients
- You can’t make things too healthy, otherwise, they don’t sell. 20% healthier is the sweet spot.
- Win a golden ticket to the Chocolate Factory for Mr. Beast’s upcoming video
- MrBeast Gaming: Expanding the competition from the main channel into the gaming community
- Beast Reacts: Simply a reaction channel with yours truly, Mr. Beast
- Beast Philanthropy: Non-profit organized to fight hunger
- Basically, a logistics company distributes food to smaller communities that don’t have an established food pantry
- The infrastructure supports high-quality goods, even refrigerated products
