MrBeast Shares His Best Business Advice

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:00)
Let's go.

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
So here we go. I have it here. This is the MrBeast secret.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:04)
I don't know if I should be concerned.

**Shaan Puri** (0:06)
And I guess you faked going to college.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:08)
Oh, that's a juicy one.

**Shaan Puri** (0:10)
On your 100th video, you wrote your stats.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:12)
I did do that. I remember that.

**Shaan Puri** (0:13)
It's not like at 100, you were richly famous.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:15)
People say it takes $10,000 to master something. I'm like, that's when you start.

**Shaan Puri** (0:19)
But you know like nobody does this, right?

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:20)
I don't understand why.

**Sam Parr** (0:22)
So we want to do an exercise.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:23)
To see if I can come up with a viral idea.

**Shaan Puri** (0:25)
But with a budget of $1,000.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:27)
Yeah, exactly.

**Sam Parr** (0:28)
So we're going to do a random word generator. Well, they're going to think this is me.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:32)
So it gave us the word grandmother. So what's a viral idea with a grandmother? I mean, if you actually want like a mega banger. What's up? How's it going, boys?

**Sam Parr** (0:52)
Hey, how are you doing?

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:53)
Let's go. So it's been two years. Lots to update people on then.

**Shaan Puri** (0:56)
I think your business has grown 10x since then.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:59)
Probably something like that, yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (1:00)
Yeah. It's wild to see. In fact, actually, this is kind of where I want to start because you walk in, we're in your office. This is like Jimmy's actual office, and it's easy to see the size and scale. Now it looks like, of course, this is all happening.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (1:16)
Yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (1:16)
But I like to see that journey. I actually want to play a clip for you. Oh, God.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (1:21)
So we're starting out with the origin story, it sounds like.

**Shaan Puri** (1:23)
You're going to hate this.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (1:24)
There's letter room.

**Shaan Puri** (1:25)
What would you bring? This is from a video on your YouTube channel called Quitting.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (1:30)
Oh, God.

**Shaan Puri** (1:31)
I don't know if you remember this.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (1:32)
Oh, God.

**Sam Parr** (1:32)
Do you know what you're about to hear?

**Jimmy Donaldson** (1:34)
I remember uploading this video.
I do not remember a single thing I said in this video. You guys make it really hard to quit. It's been a month since I uploaded to YouTube. And to be honest, I was pretty sure I was done with YouTube. I kind of want to start uploading. I feel like my YouTube channel has so much potential. I made over half a thousand dollars of money off of this channel. I feel like this channel could grow. Like money aside, I could become famous, which would be awesome in and of itself. So, I don't know. I might start uploading. Is this AI?

**Shaan Puri** (2:05)
This is you, dude.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (2:06)
I don't remember saying any of that. Whoa, really.

**Shaan Puri** (2:09)
How wild is that, dude?

**Jimmy Donaldson** (2:11)
Oh my gosh. I was making $500 a month. Why would I quit?

**Shaan Puri** (2:16)
In the thing you're talking about, you're like, you know, I've been busy with sports, and I just haven't been as consistent. And then what you said was you were like, the comments have kept me going.
You're like, I logged in today. I wasn't planning to upload, but I saw 20 comments. And you know what? I think I might keep uploading.

**Sam Parr** (2:32)
What a fork in the road.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (2:34)
Yeah, that was also around the time I got Crohn's disease, because I was really into baseball, and I wanted to play baseball in college. And so I was all in on baseball, and there was constant tug and pull, where one day I'd wake up and I'd be like, I want to try to play in the MLB, which I had zero shot of, I never would have. But you're delusional when you're a little kid. And then the next day I'd be like, no, I want to be a YouTuber and this is more realistic and I can make money. And then I got Crohn's and I went from 200 pounds, I was weightlifting every day down to 139 on the verge of dying. And I lost every ounce of muscle I had. I was like, well, I just made this easier. YouTube. I was probably like 14, 15 at the time. And then, yeah, that's, so that was probably-