Best of This Week: March 18th

**Wilson** (0:13)
Hello, and welcome to My First Million Best of the Week edition. This has been Wilson. Best of the Week brings you some of the best clips from this week's episodes, no new content, just highlighting some of the great moments we've had over the past few days.
We have some great clips for you today. To start off with, we've got Sam and Sean recapping the Mr. Beast interview on Joe Rogan and talking about the power of betting on yourself.

**Shaan** (0:34)
You saw Mr. Beast went on Joe Rogan. I don't know if you caught the episode at all.

**Sam** (0:38)
I didn't. I just a couple of the clips where they said like, what do you do with your money? And he's like, not much. He goes, I used to have a roommate up until recently and we each split our place for $700. But I got a fancier place because someone broke into my house. So I needed like some security, but it's still like pretty normal of a house.

**Shaan** (0:53)
Yeah, I didn't see that. So I've only seen one clip and it was basically the clip of like, how did you make it on YouTube?
It's a great clip, right? Like, it's.
So he goes.
So he's 23 now and he goes, I started doing this when I was 11
And Joe's like, what? 11? He's like, yeah. He's like, I came home and he's like, I started doing this when I was 11 And he's like, I sucked, obviously, at the beginning. He's like, so he's like, he's like, look at me now. I don't look cool now. Like, imagine me at like 12, like I was like, you know, pimply, you know, pimply face, scrawny, awkward, mumbly kind of guy. And like, here I am trying to like make videos. And he's like, back then also YouTube really, there wasn't a thing like YouTubers wasn't like a thing 12, 13 years ago, you know. So it's like, he's like, yeah, I just was doing it because I liked it. He goes, I hated school. He's like, I never, he's like, in high school, I just never even brought a book home. Like, he's like, I remember doing zero studying. My parents got so mad at me. He's like, and then like when I turned 18, he's like, he's like, basically, so his win in three phases, he goes, from 11 to 13, I was trying to make videos, but I was like, super embarrassed because they were so bad. And Joe's like, do they still exist? He goes, no, I deleted my channel when I turned 13 because like, I got like, I don't know, like bullied in school a little bit. I felt embarrassed. So I deleted all those videos, but I started fresh again at 13 and like, whatever, kept going. He's like, so then from 13 to like 17 or 18, I was just trying to make like videos all the time because my first video randomly got like 20,000 views. He's like, that was the best thing that ever happened to me. I got like this instant hit and I was hooked and then like, it didn't happen again for a while. But like that first one, which was about like he like hacked some video game, like here's how to beat this level in a video game or whatever.
He's like some obscure game. And it just like people wanted to know how to do that hack. So that's how I got popular right away.
Or he's like, that's how that video got popular. And then I got I wanted to chase that that that feeling again.
So he's like, I wasn't making any money. He's like, finally, I got to the point where I was making a dollar a day. And he's like, yes. He's like, so I saved up for like a few months and I bought a microphone. And I was like, yeah, like now I sound good. Like, here we go. And he's like, I just kept doing that. I kept like making a couple bucks, saving it and then like buy a camera or buy like, you know, like a better computer so I could like edit the videos or screen record or whatever. And so he just kept doing that for like six years. He's like, my whole goal was that by the time I graduate from high school, can I like just make enough money doing this because I don't want to do anything else?

**Sam** (3:18)
What was his number?

**Shaan** (3:20)
So it did not happen.
He's like, by the time I graduated high school, I was making like 400 bucks a month or something like that.