MrBeast

“And I think this thing is done about over somewhere between 50 and a hundred million dollars in revenue off this thing. I think, you know, if you just sort of assume a 10%, you know, kickback royalty that he's getting on this, I, I'm pretty confident he's doin…”

“When you shoot for these epic projects, things that get people inspired and excited. It's, it seems like it's harder to pull off, but in many ways it's easier to pull off because you'll get talent to pour in because they want to be a part of something bold. Yo…”

“I believe he has Mr. Peace has around 30 to 40 full time people working for him.”

“The video got about a hundred and thirty million views in seven days, which is crazy.”

“Mr. Beast or a Mr. Beast type person will run for president and will surprise people with the type of following they get.”

“I would add to that. It's time in underserved market. Because, you know, the reason that Jimmy or Mr. Beast even reached out to us is because no one was really talking about creators or about the YouTube space for a long period of time, and we continued to tal…”

“Mr. Beast is, in my opinion, singular. Like, it's, he's not, you can't, there's not going to be more of him, but you can look at some of the stuff he's doing with, oh, Feastables is interesting”

“And so for Mr. Beast, it's just like the, don't let anyone convince you that you need to be working on the reasonable thing. Like you need to follow your unreasonable passions because some, somehow great things are going to come out of that.”

“At night he goes for walks and he just calls people who he thinks are interesting. And he tries to like download their brains and learn anything that he can.”

“The idea of just like throw away your shame and embarrassment, whatever you're trying to do, just fully commit to the bit and you're going to be really successful. I think that's very true.”

“I was talking with him and he was like, yeah, I can't really gamble because I'm kind of a gambling addict. And he talked about like I don't want to say the name of the game, highly addicting crypto gambling site that he would be wagering like tens of thousands…”

“He has the exact same YouTube dashboard that I have, that all of us have, that you have access to. He just figured out how to read it better than anybody else.”

“If you just took the sort of like the face off the business, if I just showed you the PNL of both businesses, I think you would be like, well, I want her PNL, right? Because you're making almost as much money with way less expenses, with way less staff and ove…”

“It's also actually my biggest L of the year because he didn't pay me. And then I had to follow up. And I followed up two times, three times, and now I'm basically begging for the money.”

“I would start a Y Combinator for creators and maximize the basically find the next Kim Kardashian, the next Mr. Beast, and support them, and own a piece of them, and be a kingmaker where I'm making other kings.”

“It happened to me and Colin recently, where it was a video of me, Colin and Mr. Beast talking about an online casino that he had started. And it was also our lips were also defaked and.”

“For niche creators, we think about collectibles. Like, we want to create collectibles. And when we have collectibles, then you get to be a part of our community and be like, I'm, it, it's the feeling of going to see a band when you were younger and keeping the…”

“I think he's probably the number one online digital media company. I don't know that, you know, I don't know what creator is going to mean in that many years. Like, I think he has the best pulse on, on online storytelling right now. And I think, you know, we s…”

“If you're Logan Paul or you're Mr. Beast, you make consumables. Think prime energy drink. It's a consumable. I'm selling this to you. You're going to drink it, use it, whatever. And he goes Mr. Beast chocolate. He's going to, or even Mr. Beast merch his t-shir…”

“And I think it did over a hundred million in sort of gross revenue. You know, just sort of purchases of from Beast Burger.”

“Mr. B sold a bunch of his back channel, a back catalog, a bunch of other people have. So I think they've like, Either raise that a billion dollar valuation or we're close.”

“Then I'm going to talk to you. He's like, I'm going to spend an hour convincing you. How hard this is going to be and how much you're going to have to sacrifice to be here. And I can just see in that, do they flinch? Do they start asking me about vacation poli…”

“He's like, so he wired me 10 grand and he's like he's like, can you make this thumbnail please? So I told my girlfriend, he's like, I left the wedding and I made the thumbnail and I've never looked back since.”

“I've hired and fired like six CEOs. I thought we hired the Disney guy. Surely he'll know things. No, he doesn't know shit about YouTube. That's not going to work.”

“They will test like hundreds of thumbnails like rap in rapid succession during the when they first release a video, they will cycle through hundreds of thumbnails programmatically To try to find the winning one during that.”

“Our loyal fans, our hardcore viewers come first. They're going to want to see Jimmy's face. But after that, after, you know, basically the 24 hour period, it's going to be more fans that are from the platform, just people browsing YouTube. They don't know Jimm…”

“He will only pick ideas that can literally appeal to like one billion people. And that's just different than what most people do on the platform. Most people don't like our channel, for example, the stuff we talk about, it's not meant to do that. It's meant to…”

“It's like more people watch his content than watch the Super Bowl every month.”

“So I literally have somebody essentially move in with me and I just duct tape them to my hip. He's like, you're going to follow me everywhere to everything. And for this first six months, all you're going to do is just shadow me and just learn exactly how I th…”

“Well, no, he's actually, he's a movie studio. It just, instead of theaters, it's on your phone or on your TV. I was like, this guy is, he's just built like the new Paramount or whatever the studios are, the Warner Brothers. And that's exactly what he's doing.”

“He was, Hey, Sean, if you can make this half court shot, I'll give you 10,000 dollars. And he didn't even say like, if you don't make it, I get this or you only have three shots to make it. Like there was no, I was like, what the fuck with Jimmy? Why would you…”

“I would bet that he's going to sell that chocolate brand for Six billion dollars. That's my guess. I think that's what's gonna, I think if we fast forward the news three years from now you know, Mr. B sells the majority stake or in the chocolate business for a…”

“Jimmy Mr. Beast, you know the day after our event, he's like, oh, I'm what are you doing tomorrow? He's like, oh, I flew, I'm flying in all of, he's like, I play this one board game that's super niche called Dune. He's like, and I, there's no tournament for Du…”

“He's like, I only have three goals this year. Grow the channel, get big and sell chocolate. Those are the three things he's doing.”

“Going to do hundreds of millions in chocolate sales this year”

“He's running a billion dollar company, so he's, his company is worth well over a billion dollars, which is the combination of his channel.”

“He raised like fifty million plus and invest all of that into content to grip, build this enormous following of Being the most followed creator on tick tock and YouTube and hundreds of millions of fans.”

“We basically took. 20 people to Greenville, North Carolina, which is middle of nowhere. We basically stayed at Mr. Beast's house there.”

“It was Mr. Beast, you know, he's the best in the world, and I remember, I think it was either you or me and someone else, and I, we were just shooting the shit about, like, a TV show that I thought everyone knew about, And he had no idea. And I was like, I was…”

“Feastables is going to have a way harder time without Mr. Beast than, you know if he built a bank, right? If the bank had hundreds of thousands of customers or whatever, Ostensibly he could go away from that and might make the business grow slow or whatever, b…”

“I think it's a testament to how valuable audiences are that all the most valuable businesses that have been created are like the worst businesses. Chocolate bars, supplements merch, that kind of stuff. Like these are really bad businesses.”

“The reason his videos can get a 100,000,200 million views is because It's a concept so simple. You could literally just draw it with a stick figure drawing and people would get it. Two people who don't know each other trapped in a room for a hundred days winne…”

“So I'm Jenny Hoyos. I'm a YouTuber who makes videos around the life of a cheapskate. I guess you can say, I guess you can call me like, you know, the anti Mr. Beast. You know, people call me Mr. Least.”

“People are so used to like these high stakes. Like, seeing 10,000 dollars in a title anymore, people don't even know what that even means, because they're seeing people like Mr. Beast spend a million dollars. So it's like, you know, people are just so numb to …”

“Just being in M&A at CPG levels, my intuition is that they won't be patient enough to get to that big of a number, right?”

“Anytime you blame, you say the word algorithm, just switch it with the word people, because you're blaming the algorithm. The algorithm didn't like my video. No, no, no. People didn't like your video. The algorithm is just simply giving people videos they like…”

“Go make a hundred videos and every video on the hundred, I want you to think of one thing you're going to do better than the last video. Maybe it's your hook. Maybe it's your title. Maybe it's your thumbnail. Maybe it's the storytelling. Maybe it's the editing…”

“I think Mr. Beast, if he wanted, he can be president of the US at some point, because he just, since the age of 15, has just had one goal, And it's not changed for 10 whatever years.”

“Mr. Beast has made it his success because he's decided to be McDonald's on the internet, right? He is Creating the videos that are mass market that are going to get the most number of views, even if they're not the most life changing, introspective, emotional,…”

“So I got hired for to be the right hand for the CEO over at Night Media, and so Reed was Jimmy's, you know, main manager, and I got recruited to go be Jimmy's number two, or Reed's number two, and I was running day to day with Mr. B.”

“Three years ago when we did the first version of this event, Jimmy, AKA Mr. Beast had launched his chocolate brand feastables. And it was like, okay, selling chocolate to little kids. I had the opportunity to invest. I think I had a forty million dollar valuat…”

“That's a scale effect. And it's a very weak one. Yeah, no, he's very vulnerable. Just like Buzzfeed was very vulnerable and wasn't going to go anywhere.”

“And he might end up building a brand around that chocolate. Right. But it'll take years, and it'll take hundreds of millions of dollars, and it's not clear that it'll happen.”

“Like, from morning to night, like, the guy, I remember one guy he hired, he was also Jimmy's alarm clock. Like, he would go wake him up, and from the moment Jimmy woke up, they were together, till the moment Jimmy signed off to go to sleep, and he would do tha…”