Jimmy Donaldson

15 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2023 by Jimmy Donaldson · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Sep 19, 2023
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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”
Jimmy Donaldson Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 4:43 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023 neutral
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MrBeast: Abandoned video game development after six months to focus on chocolate
“I tried to build one, and then like six months in, I was like, oh, these things take years, and then I was like, I'd rather sell chocolate.”
Jimmy Donaldson Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 25:42 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023
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MrBeast is increasing video length to satisfy audience demand for content
“So we're working on elongating it, but not because of like algorithms or anything. It's just like people just actually don't like waiting two weeks for just 15 minutes of content. Like they want more or more frequent videos. And the problem is the spectacles a…”
Jimmy Donaldson Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 28:49 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023 positive
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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.”
Jimmy Donaldson Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 10:56 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023 neutral
Insight
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.”
Jimmy Donaldson Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 4:28 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
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.”
Jimmy Donaldson Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 16:14 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg: MrBeast is most followed person after Messi and Ronaldo
“He's basically the most followed human on earth after Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo”
David Friedberg Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 1:40 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
MrBeast hid his YouTube channel from his mother until reaching 10,000 subscribers
“My mom thought it was crazy that I was talking to people on the internet, so I ended up just lying, like, oh, this is a joke, I just have a friend I'm talking to every night online or on Skype or whatever and then once I hit 10,000 subscribers, I told her, yea…”
Jimmy Donaldson Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 2:55 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023 negative
Insight
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.”
Jimmy Donaldson Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 6:01 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023 positive
Opinion
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.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 8:43 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023
Insight
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…”
Jimmy Donaldson Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 29:29 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023 positive
Disclosure
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…”
Jimmy Donaldson Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 15:18 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Sep 19, 2023 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Any new MrBeast brand will immediately reach 10 million customers
“Any brand you decide to build will immediately have the first ten million customers.”
Jason Calacanis Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 10:50 All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
Nov 3, 2023 negative
Opinion
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…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 9:10 E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
Apr 9, 2024 positive
Opinion
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…”
Jimmy Donaldson Apr 9, 2024 ▶ 5:21 All-In Summit 2023 Recap
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