Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) is a technology YouTuber that started posting videos in high school reviewing pieces of tech. However, his channel did not see significant growth until college. There, he made videos in his dorm room between school work and found money to purchase products to review. He has always heavily emphasized quality in his videos from the sets to videography to audio. His biggest breakthrough was having the opportunity to interview Kobe Bryant.
Today, Marques has multiple channels and over ten people on his team. He has divided everything involved in creating content to different people to ensure the highest quality work. Currently, he has his main channel, the Studio channel, a YT Shorts channel, a podcast channel, and an Auto Focus channel. The Studio channel focuses on behind the scenes and activity in the studio, and Auto Focus is a car review channel that he started recently.
On top of these, Marques plays ultimate frisbee professionally. Not only is he one of the best on his team, but they recently won the championship. Somehow, he finds time to be a great athlete while making lots of content weekly.
Marques has a big influence on so many people with his entrepreneurial mind. His drive and determination to do what he loves is present and impactful. Seeing the level of success he has seen on YouTube while playing ultimate professionally is not seen anywhere else. While his channels have grown, he has began to outsource the work to more employees. It is crazy to see that YouTube, along with sponsorships and others, have been able to pay him and allow him to have a big studio with over ten full time employees. His work is noticed and inspires me to do what I love.
I find it so admirable that Marques finds time to balance all of his interests, while excelling at them both. He mastered the art of turning both of his hobbies, ultimate frisbee and his YouTube channel, into profitable careers. His journey wasn’t an easy one, and it really is inspiring that he built his channel up from the bottom. Only through hard work and much effort did his channel take off, and he succeeded greatly.
This is awesome to see someone so passionate about something that they strive and strive for it until it becomes all they do. Now he has others on his team who are passionate just like him and that is important in a job, finding others with the same passion, it allows for further success and a better working environment. Also greater team chemistry comes from that as an army of ants on the same mission can do more than two dogs with no vision.