Casey Neistat
37 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 2, 2020 by Casey Neistat · said 7 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Guy Raz (4), Colin Rosenblum (3)
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about Casey Neistat, oldest first
Mar 2, 2020 positive
Neistat: 'Bike Lanes' exploded faster than iPod video due to social media maturity
“Not since the iPod movie had I seen a kind of reaction. It was everywhere, and the difference now is that social media was just really starting to pick up and I shared it as best I could, but it, Didn't need that. I don't know who picked it up, but it just exp…”
Mar 2, 2020 negative
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Mar 2, 2020
Neistat bought a $12,000 trailer with an $800 down payment as a teen
“The trailer, I think, was 12,000 dollars, and I put, I think, eight or 900 dollars down, and then got a mortgage for the rest that my grandmother co-signed for, and then we had to rent a little piece of land that we parked it on, and we lived there”
Mar 2, 2020
Neistat financed his first editing Mac with two $400-limit credit cards
“I applied for a credit card so I could buy that machine, and I was only able to get a credit card with a 400 dollar limit. So I got another credit card that also had a 400 dollar limit up to 800 bucks for keeping track And that, in combination with my tax retu…”
Mar 2, 2020
Mar 2, 2020 positive
Mar 2, 2020 neutral
Neistat: Privilege is a winning lottery ticket; hard work cashes it in
“I was born with a winning lotto ticket in my hand. All I had to do was cash it in. And that cashing it in is hard work. Like, that's what that meant. To cash it in was hard work. And I did my part. But I could have never done my part without first winning the …”
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Mar 2, 2020 positive
Neistat: Beme acquisition financially secured his family's future
“Probably. Yeah, I think that if we didn't live in New York City or Los Angeles, that, that'd probably be the case. I can tell you that in the terms that I think of, which is, can I now give my children the lifestyle that I've always wanted to give them? The an…”
Mar 2, 2020 positive
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Mar 2, 2020
Neistat earned $8 an hour as a teen father without family support
“My parents didn't, you know, step in with money or anything, not that they had anything to step in with. You know, Robin didn't really have any parents, so we didn't have anyone to turn to. We were all on our own. And, you know, I was making eight dollars an h…”
Mar 2, 2020
Neistat: Knowing the reality of startups would have scared me off entirely
“If I knew then what I know now about what it means to start a tech company, I wouldn't have Not only not done it, I would have run as far away from that idea as I possibly could have. It was not knowing, and this has been true my entire career, you know, my en…”
Mar 2, 2020 neutral
Neistat's first editing computer had a 10GB drive holding 12 minutes
“Yeah, it was shooting to tape, and moreover, the machine only had a 10 gigabyte hard drive, which held about 12 minutes of video, so I would edit one video at a time, and I remember I would back up my footage to VHS tapes, because VHS tapes were pretty cheap.”
Mar 2, 2020
Neistat: Make It Count Defined Every Commercial Job Through 2015
“Every job opportunity I had for the next several years was companies from all walks of life coming to me being like, hey, can you do for us what you did for Nike? And I mean it, and that defined my career until about 2014, 1015. It was the only, every job I ha…”
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Mar 2, 2020 negative
Casey Neistat: CNN shut Beme down due to lack of rapid growth
“If you look at a company like that, and this is my understanding, if you look at a company like that, they need to see real growth. They need to see a real trajectory for success, and they need to see it fast, and I think that, I don't think we were able to de…”
Mar 2, 2020 positive
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Neistat: Creative Partnerships Are Harder to Navigate After Achieving Success
“When you have a partner, you have someone to blame all of the failures on, and someone to attribute all of the successes to. And when you are, when you combine that understanding with having nothing, it works, because you're in this together. But when you comb…”
Mar 2, 2020
Neistat started daily vlogging solely to build an audience for Beme
“I thought, you know, I need to really go hard on YouTube to get my audience engaged so when I tell them about this product that they'll, they'll be there for me. And I came up with this idea then to make a video every day, and every day share sort of a story f…”
Mar 2, 2020
Neistat: Gained early NYC stability moving into an SRO unit
“And one of those people was, you know, like a friend of a friend, and he had lived in this, something called an SRO, a single room occupancy. And it's where you sort of, you get a room, but you don't get a bathroom or a kitchen. And it wasn't much of an apartm…”
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Mar 2, 2020 positive
Mar 2, 2020
Neistat considers himself excellent at initial project launches, not long-term execution
“I'm really good at being the second man in a bobsled team, which means I get really excited, and I can push really, really, really hard, but the second it launches out of the gates, I just sort of jump in, and I'm like, okay, what now?”
Mar 2, 2020 positive
Mar 2, 2020 positive
Neistat: Commercial directing revenue funded early independent YouTube videos
“Out of that, I built sort of what was my first business post Neistat Brothers, post working with my brother. And what that business was making videos on YouTube that would garner enough attention and enough interest from the industry that would then offer me j…”
Apr 14, 2022
Rosenblum: Individual Creator Brands Are Inherently Capped And Difficult To Scale
“Scaling yourself as a creator is one of the hardest things to do. Casey Neistat can't scale himself necessarily, right? If he doesn't want to upload, there's no Casey Neistat on YouTube that day. And the same pertains to us on the Colin and Samir channel.”