Jimmy Donaldson
Founder and CEO, Beast Industries. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jimmy Donaldson operates MrBeast, the most-subscribed channel on YouTube, known for high-budget stunt challenges and giveaways. He also founded consumer brands including Feastables and runs Beast Philanthropy.
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5said about them ↓ Everything Jimmy Donaldson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
MrBeast: Mastery requires 10,000 days rather than 10,000 hours
“You said 10,000 hours. I think people should change that saying to 10,000 days, and I'm almost at my halfway point to 10,000 days. I think that's how people should start looking at things, because to be honest, 10,000 hours is pretty easy.”
Donaldson: No major chocolate company has launched in 50 years
“In the last 50 years, there hasn't been any, like, major chocolate company that has spawned up.”
MrBeast: AI video dubbing will probably sound terrible for two years
“For the first, or the next two years, it'll probably sound terrible, but it's, of course, at some time in the near future, AI dubbing will, you know.”
MrBeast: AI video dubbing retention is only slightly below human voice actors
“We have, and it's usually like, so if it's a one minute video, and the retention with normal voice actor is 45 seconds, it'll be like 42, but it'll also be a lot of comments like, why does he sound slightly off? So the retention isn't as bad as you would think”
MrBeast: Top 12 team members give identical answers 95% of the time
“My top probably 12 people You know, if you ask them something and ask me in different rooms, we'll give the exact same answer. And the other five percent of the time will just be, like, very slightly different.”
MrBeast: All earnings are immediately reinvested into content creation
“I've just kind of reinvested the money for 14 years, and even to this day, whatever I make, I just spend it the next month on content”
MrBeast: Feastables essentially doesn't need to do marketing
“Well the beauty is we don't have, like, essentially don't have to do marketing.”
MrBeast: Creator ad revenue alone cannot fund multimillion-dollar YouTube videos
“At the moment you don't make that much from ad revenue. So to do these big multimillion dollar videos, it's just not really possible, which is why doing things like Feastables and other products to generate revenue on the back end is why We're able to do that,…”
MrBeast: Kids buy 12-packs of Prime for $15 and resell bottles for $6
“So Prime was great because obviously it's a beverage, and the more shelf space you get just naturally, the more sales, but they, it was more a lifestyle brand they created where just kids, Felt cool drinking it, and to the point where they would buy a 12 pack …”
MrBeast: Mystery around execution drives YouTube viewer clicks
“Yeah, the thing is, though, like, the mystery is part of what's cool. Like, how does this random YouTuber give a million dollars away to someone on the street or, like, things like that. So part of it is, like, them not knowing how it's even possible is, is wh…”
MrBeast: Typical YouTube video RPM is around five dollars
“Most videos probably have like five dollar RPM”
MrBeast: Using outrage to gain attention eventually stops working for long-term brands
“If you're trying to build a long-term brand, you don't want to just constantly piss people off just to get attention. Like, eventually it stops working, so.”
MrBeast thinks he will eventually move his company out of rural North Carolina
“I think at some point I just got to move out of the middle of nowhere in North Carolina”
MrBeast gets 100 million views per video in seven days
“We get a hundred million views on a video in the first seven days”
MrBeast: Physical retail is simpler and more effective than complex execution
“Anything in retail is great, because, you know, you just put things on a shelf, and people buy it, and, you know it's like, it's much easier than, like, doing something complicated.”
MrBeast details Beast Philanthropy's self-sustaining YouTube monetization model
“We essentially just started a charity and then made a YouTube channel where, you know, whatever we do with the money from the charity, we film it so that it generates revenue on the back end, and obviously, Those videos go on to raise a lot of money for donati…”
MrBeast: Darker video brightness causes viewers to click off
“If it's a little too dark, people are more apt to click off and not watch it, you know, because not everyone has their phone screen brightness turned up.”
MrBeast spends around $2.5M per video on production
“I think right now it's around two and a half million per video.”
MrBeast says over half of his video audience is non-English speaking
“Over half the people that watch my videos don't even speak English”
MrBeast: Toy-unboxing YouTube creators inevitably lose viewers as their audience ages
“If we're talking to someone who unboxes toys, you know, their audience is gonna grow, and there's nothing they can do about it”
MrBeast says audiences enjoy watching large cash and gift giveaways
“No, not really, to be honest. Most people think it's cool, because it's like, it's kind of fun to watch someone receive, you know, 10,000 dollars, or a Lamborghini, or a house, or, I think, like, the last thing we did was I ordered pizza and tipped the guy a h…”
The other half of the tape: Jimmy Donaldson's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode across the shows. 4 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Chamath Palihapitiya 1
Statements about Jimmy Donaldson, by other people (4)
Chamath: Podcasting is 'lowest order bit' compared to top content creators
“Yeah, but I think that that's like a, it's the lowest order bit, quite honestly. You know, when you see like what Jimmy Donaldson does, or even like Kim Kardashian, what they do as content creators, it's just an intense process that then creates all this upsid…”
Friedberg: MrBeast is most followed person after Messi and Ronaldo
“He's basically the most followed human on earth after Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo”
Palihapitiya: MrBeast is the first entrepreneur with a fully public history
“There's no one else on Earth, no entrepreneur in history, where you can go track them longitudinally from the first thing they did all the way through to today.”
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Founder and CEO, Beast Industries | 2 | 27 | 33% 1/3 | full record on All-In → |