On May 7, 1998. Jimmy Donaldson was born in Greenville, North Carolina. During his childhood, he always had an interest in making content for his YouTube channel. Most of his videos in his younger years revolved around video games and movies. As the years went on, he needed to find ways to differentiate his channel. He started to do very rare content like saying Jake Paul 100k times or reading every word in a thesaurus. From these strange videos he accumulated millions of follows and found a unique way to make content. Later on, he would make videos with prize money. According to medium.com, in 2017 he created his first video involving money. The winner for the challenge in this video was 100k. This video accumulated millions of views, and Jimmy continued to make this type of content. This YouTube channel rapidly grew followers on his social media accounts as he made creative challenges with crazy amounts of prize money for the winners (medium.com).
From successfully making this content and gaining followers, Jimmy created the largest YouTube channel in the world. This channel is known as Mr. Beast. Mr. Beast today is known for crazy stunts and interesting challenges with strangers and celebrities. His videos can include his followers, top notch athletes, and others. Jimmy does dangerous challenges like living buried in a coffin for 4 days. While his challenges could be harmful, he has created a large audience that loves his content.
With his large sum of earnings, Jimmy has created other businesses. He created his own burger joint and his own chocolate bars. While these companies have not been very successful, he has still gained much attraction and spread awareness of his channel. He also is heavily involved in fundraising. He helps save and plant trees, he helps provide homes for those in Africa that lose their homes to weather conditions. He even donated millions in dollars to organizations that perform eye surgeries on the homeless.
Jimmy has successfully created his YouTube channel as a young entrepreneur. He used his skills and unique content to be the biggest creator on YouTube.
I really like this post! For some reason, I never thought of Mr. Beast as an entrepreneur. If you think about it for a moment, there isn’t a better example of an entrepreneur! Not only does he create entertaining videos, but he’s branched out from there. Mr. Beast’s high quality chocolate company has had growing sales since its conception. Great post!
I agree, Mr. Beast is a great example of an entrepreneur even though he may not be our first thought when we think of entrepreneurs. He was able to leverage his large following to turn simple video content into a large-scale business production.
I think that one point that Mr. Beast helps to show as true is that entrepreneurs can be in any conceivable industry. While Youtube is not a place that people, particularly older people, think as a place of innovation, it really is. Mr. Beaat has really changed the game in Youtube and on the internet, so to say, and is a great example of an entrepreneur.
I grew up watching MR. Beast and his content always inspired me. You can tell through his videos that he has worked super hard to get where he is today. All his videos have a positive vibe. He started with 0 followers and just a dream. Jimmy Donaldson inspires people across the world with his story. Showing what chasing your dreams through hard work looks like and where it can get you. I love seeing Mr. Beast videos because they always had a positive impact on my life. Each video Jimmy posts makes someone’s day better. Mr. Beast is uplifting and encouraging people every day. Furthermore, I’m excited to see what is next for the channel.