Nuseir Yassin
Founder & CEO, Nas Company. On 4 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Nuseir Yassin is a content creator and entrepreneur best known for Nas Daily, where he created 1,000 one-minute videos in 1,000 days. He is also the founder and CEO of Nas Company, which operates Nas Academy and Nas.io.
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6said about them ↓ Everything Nuseir Yassin said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Yassin: CCTV approached Nas Daily to promote tourism in Xinjiang
“To be clear, we've had people from China, CCTV, tell us to go to Xinjiang and talk about the culture and the food.”
Yassin: US State Department asked Nas Daily to make anti-China videos
“But we also had people from the State Department tell us, hey, why don't you make videos about China and how bad it is?”
Yassin: Creators cannot truly be canceled because algorithms are emotionless
“There's no such thing as cancel. You cannot be canceled on the internet. It isn't, the algorithm has no emotions. You think the algorithm is like right wing or left wing? It doesn't care. You create content, it's interesting enough, it shows it to people. So y…”
Yassin: More Middle Eastern leaders died pursuing peace than waging war
“In the Middle East, more politicians died From making peace than from making war. I'm gonna say that again. More politicians died from making peace than from making war.”
Yassin: New creators must ditch traditional friends for creative peers
“One, ditch your existing friends, because you're about to enter a whole new industry, and two, surround yourself with new types of friends that are from the creative industry. The ones that don't shame you for screaming in front of a video.”
Yassin: Advertising-based content creation is a flawed, fraudulent model
“Advertising-based content creation is a flawed model, and I would dare say it's a fraudulent model. This is the model that has been working, but it will not work in the future.”
Yassin: Ad-Supported Creator Business Model Is Flawed and Won't Work
“No, there isn't enough advertising, and advertising-based content creation is a flawed model, and I would dare say it's a fraudulent model. This is the model that has been working, but it will not work in the future.”
Yassin: All creators eventually saturate their addressable audience and face decline
“At some point you will not get more famous. At some point you will saturate every single person in India that could potentially like you. Then you'll have this amazing and sad decline, and then the platforms want to show a different face, a different podcast, …”
Yassin: YouTube benefits from cycling in a new MrBeast every five years
“The best interest of YouTube is to have a new Mr. Beast every five years.”
Yassin: Calling for Middle East peace resulted in 100 death threats
“I made a video calling for peace a week ago, and I got a hundred death threats.”
Yassin: Lost $1M brand deal after posting Israel-Palestine video
“I lost a million dollars from making that video from a brand deal,”
Yassin: AI dubbing will match human quality within two months
“In the next two months, it will be just as good. It'll be so damn cheap.”
Yassin: Thumbnails and titles do not matter for short-form video
“On Instagram reels, the title doesn't matter. Thumbnail doesn't matter. In fact, no one should be stressing over this at the beginning. Just stress over the 1:03 seconds of the video. The first sentence that you say in the video. So on TikTok, thumbnails don't…”
Yassin: New creators should avoid starting with long-form YouTube videos
“Do not start your career by making long YouTube videos. It will ruin your dream. There's no discoverability engine. In this, like, just like, this is only when you're big enough. For now, focus on TikTok, Instagram.”
Yassin: Creator shelf-life is 5 years; companies cannot rely on faces
“You cannot build a company reliant on your face, because creators come and go every five years. Every five years, somebody's hot, somebody's not. So my face is temporary. I must migrate from my face to a company.”
Yassin: It is impossible to build a 30-year business on social media
“You cannot build a business on top of social media. Impossible. And so, so this idea that Facebook will be my livelihood, and I can build an empire for the next 30 years, thanks to Facebook's algorithm, is, is a dream that will never materialize.”
Yassin: Nas Company rejected a CCTV request to film in Xinjiang
“To be clear, we've had people from China, CCTV, tell us to go to Xinjiang and talk about the culture and the food... For me, that was a step too far, so I said no.”
Yassin: 195 localized media hubs will eventually replace Hollywood's dominance
“In the future, there is a room for a 195 more Hollywoods to be created. The days in which the whole world is watching Will Smith on TV and Tom Cruise for the 55th movie are done.”
Yassin: Nas Daily has never worked with the Israeli government
“So, and I, we've never worked with Israeli government to be clear, but one thing I've realized is that this whole what's taboo and what's not is very relative.”
Yassin: Global media ethics cannot center purely on American interests
“My compass is very different from an American perspective compass. And that's what many Americans need to realize is that the world does not center around America and American interests.”
Yassin: Private and public sectors cannot be separated in many foreign markets
“But that doesn't exist in Singapore, in the UAE. They're so intertwined. Like you, I have a business in Singapore. We all love Singapore, right? But the government knows everything about every business and works with every business, right? And so like, yes, yo…”
Yassin: Creator economy is only at 1% of needed creator capacity
“We are at one percent of the way there with how many content creators we need, similar to how many software engineers we need. We are at one percent of the way there because monetizing videos has been very, very new. So we're just at the beginning.”
Yassin: Room exists globally for 195 localized 'Hollywoods' to emerge
“In the future, there is a room for a 195 more Hollywoods to be created. The days in which the whole world is watching Will Smith on TV and Tom Cruise for the 55th movie are done.”
Yassin: Future Creator Economy Jobs Will Come From Paid Micro-Communities
“I'm a runner. I start a community for a hundred people. I create content for a hundred people, and each one of them gives me 10 bucks. I'm already making a thousand bucks a month, so you can create new jobs, and that's where the future is heading, in my opinio…”
The other half of the tape: Nuseir Yassin's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 6 times in 3 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Nuseir Yassin (Nas Daily) 2Greg Isenberg 2Jitendra Chouksey 1Henry Belcaster 1
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the Startup Ideas Podcast 5
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 1
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Nuseir's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Nas Company | 2 | 37 | 100% 1/1 | full record on How I Built This → |
| WTFLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Nas Company | 1 | 32 | — | full record on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath → |
 BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Nas Company | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Big Technology → |
| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Nas Company | 0 | 0 | 0% 0/1 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |