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Over a weekend now, and the grind is really any YouTuber in the world can call me and I'll tell them everything I know because it doesn't matter. They're not going to do it like I'm basically working 15, 16 hours every single day. We reinvest almost all the money on the content into more content. And it's, you know, most people after they make a few million dollars, just get soft and slow down. Also, I have. Jimmy Donaldson, aka Mr. Beast, is the most popular YouTuber on the planet, with more than 650 million subscribers across his channels. His videos often involve games where contestants or beasts himself are trapped in weird places for long periods of time, competing for cash payouts of up to eight figures. Every day you live here, I will give you $10,000 in a grocery cart that's wild. For another year or two. Another year or two. Time spent the day with Donaldson at his sprawling headquarters in Greenville, North Carolina. He gave us a look behind the scenes of some of his current videos and his takeaways from years of doing them. We just also, like, changed every single year. I mean, we've literally been the most subscribed to YouTube channel in the world the last five years. 99% of the time, the just tasted the audience that just shifted. And the algorithm is just a reflection of what people want to watch. So if you know your videos are getting served less, it's because people just aren't clicking and watching. We began our day with a trip to a nearby mansion, where Donaldson explained a new twist for one of his ongoing contests. This thing, because we do a lot of challenge videos and after we upload them, like some people make TikToks that go in like, are that contestant was too soft or they, uh, if one of our contestants get out because they missed their family, a lot of TikToks, hundreds of TikToks go up saying like, I would never leave to see my family. I would die before I quit a MrBeast video. So we grabbed 15 people who made videos saying that our contestants are too soft and we put them all in a mansion and we said, whoever leaves last keeps it. Now they started throwing everything outside and like, ruining the place to try to get people to leave. So it feels so good out here. I think it's important to note that all of this started with like very calm pranks, like just like kind of messing with each other. And then when one person got pranked and they did not want to get pranked, it just started escalating. And then you don't know who did it. So then you just start trashing the entire house because you're. Yeah, these guys are deranged. Oh, God. We never really got to enjoy any of the. Oh, I. Know. Because it's a different world where you wake up, you play ping pong, you work out together, you eat a lot of protein, and you guys are just having fun. I thought we were gonna get that for at least a week, but then. Like, wow. So you could see. Everything that happened. Yeah, every single room in the house, minus the bathrooms. Bathrooms are the only one where. There is privacy in the bathroom. Yes. And if they really wanted privacy. We could, you know, like showers. We could figure it out now. So somebody here 24 hours? Yeah. It'll either be myself or the nighttime coordinator. And then sometimes if we need extra hands to help us do, like, story producing or something. And they all are very, very nice young boys. They're just, um, you know, you can tell they're cooped up and they want to, they want to not only give good content, but they're like, I still want to be in here and have fun. This is day 19 and I would not make a great content to any Mr. Beast video. Today's reason is because I have very little responsibilities in life. True. That means if you put me in a last to leave challenge, that's what they did. That's going to get me out is literally a competition in the challenge. I'm not leaving before anything else. Make sure to tag me so. You can't mess with people's beds. And while they're sleeping, you can't mess with them. And you can't destroy their bed frames unless they leave, in which case. It's like it's like memorabilia. And then obviously. You can't, you know, threaten anyone or say, you know, any physical results in instant elimination, no physical or even the threat of it, of course. Yeah. You made you made the rules about bed frames. Uh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, well, I'll be honest, we've never had contestants this crazy before. So normally that's just an assumed thing. You just let people sleep. But no, with these people, you really gotta lay it out. Oh, yeah. They're still here. Yeah. Really? Like the idea on YouTube can make the difference between a video getting 5 million views or 100 million views, you know, and it can make the difference. Like if I just put 15 people in that mansion, it's a fine video, but since I put 15 people who said our videos are too easy, all of a sudden now it's ten times more interesting, even though it really wasn't any extra effort on our part. You see what I'm saying? And look at me. While the contestants kept duking it out in the mansion, we left for a Walmart Supercenter, Donaldson and his team did walkthroughs of the store to prep for giving away Nintendo switches. Hey, Kyle, do you want me to stand down for this or do you want me to leave? It's all part of a promotion for his chocolate and candy brand Feastables, which is selling a limited edition snack tied to the new Super Mario Galaxy movie. It wasn't long before people stopped to get a glimpse of Donaldson and perhaps even win something. After all, he's known for giving away cash in grocery stores, like his latest challenge that at the time of our filming, was still in production. I bought a grocery store. Well, I guess rented a grocery store. Um, and, uh, we basically, I waited, uh, until a random time interval and we had hidden cameras set up all over the grocery store. And I walked in and I stood on the cash register and said, whoever leaves this grocery store last wins 250 grand. Uh, and, uh, I'm not letting anyone else enter the grocery store going forward. And they were just random shoppers, like moms with their kids or like completely random, not casted people. I didn't know any of them. And, uh, yeah, that one's really cool because usually we, we cast and pick people, but this one was literally just, I stood on the cash register and I was just like, whoever leaves last wins. And there was 96 people in the store. That was 45 days ago. Now there's, I think, six people left. Such spectacles are now part and parcel of an operationalized media empire worth north of $5 billion. Funds from advertisers and investors allow Donaldson to give away all that cash. Donaldson's is a uniquely 21st century story. A junior college dropout who started making videos as an adolescent, grew an astronomical audience and is now leveraging that fame to craft a burgeoning portfolio that includes a snack line, TV show, theme park and financial platform. With other projects in the offing. I get to make content that literally entertains percentage points of humans alive, which is ******* awesome. You know, like if a video gets 200 million views, maybe, you know, 1 in 50 humans on the planet watch it, right? Because whatever, there's 8 billion people. Um, and so that's freaking awesome. You know, and especially right now, you know, that's not guaranteed to be like that forever. So I really want to take advantage of it and make the most of it. I also, you know, company employs a lot of people. I want to be able to take care of all my employees. Don't ever want to let them down. Then all of it ties back to, well, if I make the greatest videos possible, those things continue. Back at beast headquarters after a wardrobe change, Donaldson gave us a tour of his 132 acre campus equipped with Hollywood level sets. So. We can blow up bombs in here. We can do whatever. So it's really customized to shoot videos. You can build a big building, but it's not going to sound good. You're not gonna be able to do cool stuff. It's not going to have 20 Hvac units that cool it, and you're not gonna be able to hang things that weigh £10,000, like truss and lighting and things like that. So just has all the things we need to be able to film in here. So you design it yourself? No, I just told people what I wanted and they designed it. I wish I would feel cooler. All right. Where do we go to next? Next up, checking on another video in progress. We have a couple that wants to lose some weight before they get married. So if they lose £150 before the wedding, we'll give them a quarter of $1 million plus every 30 days. They have like a challenge to, like, upgrade their wedding. Seven. I don't know. We observed Donaldson and his team work through plot points to record on camera. Behind every polished video uploaded to YouTube is many takes. It's it's been. It's been a week and it's been a week. It's been a week. And it's really cool to see how all in. And it's been a week and it's really cool to see. And a contingent of video editors meticulously combing through seemingly endless amounts of footage. Yeah, we're used to working with like upwards of a hundred cameras and one multicam and other projects. It could be around like 25. We're constantly finding stuff that isn't in story notes. Um, because there's always contestants like off in a corner whispering or something like that. We're sort of just like the flies on the wall. But coming up with fresh video ideas isn't the only challenge for Donaldson. In recent years, his company has experienced growing pains, particularly accusations of workplace toxicity and questionable hiring practices. In a statement, Beast Industries denied the charges. The company is growing so fast. There's a lot of attention right now on your company culture. Are there things you'd like to change? Uh, well, yeah. I mean, that's always something that people talk about because I started this business when I was 11, so obviously I didn't even know what that word meant back then. Um, and so it's obviously evolved over the lifetime of the company, but, uh, you know, a couple of years ago, especially now we're at 750 employees, I brought in more experienced people because, uh, you know, shocker, it's a person who studied YouTube videos and studied content isn't, you know, maybe the best to set a culture of a company at this scale. And so the new C-suite and stuff that I brought in 24 months ago, it's been amazing to have people who have actually worked and ran and built large teams, like point out things where I'm like, oh, that makes sense. That's why I hired you. We asked Donaldson about misconceptions. The worst descriptor. Would probably be that we just give away money, because obviously we've given away hundreds of millions of dollars, but we do much more than that. And we do a lot of, you know, projects that have real sustainable change, like Team Trees have planted 20 million trees or team sees pulling £30 million of trash out of the ocean. Or when we build wells that give hundreds of thousands of people clean drinking water and things like that. And so, um, you know, in general, we do entertaining stuff, but not everything has a, you know, philanthropic angle. But overarchingly, I feel like we do a lot of good and help a lot of people. Like it just takes time to do great things. 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