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MrBeast Memo: 99% of Movies and TV Shows Would Flop on YouTube
“99% of movies or TV shows would flop on YouTube. On top of that, they would be wildly unprofitable, have no flexibility in long lead times that can't adapt to trends.”
MrBeast: Doing What No Other Creator Can Do Creates True Differentiation
“Anytime we do something that no other creator can do that separates us in their mind and makes our videos more special to them.”
MrBeast Can Grow a New Channel to 10K Subscribers in One Month
“Because I've spent almost a decade of my life hyper obsessing over YouTube, I can show a brand new creator how to go from a hundred subscribers to 10,000 in a month. On their own, it would take them years to do it.”
MrBeast: 90 Seconds Extra Retention Yields 80 Million Extra Views
“If one is watched just a minute and a half longer on average, 90 seconds, 92nd difference at this scale gives you eighty million views.”
Senra: Bill Gurley's 'Running Down a Dream' is YouTube's best founder talk
“I think the best talk available on YouTube for any founder is this presentation that Bill Gurley gave a couple years ago. I think it was at the University of Texas MBA students. It's called Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love.”