Jimmy Donaldson did not appear to be a multimillionaire star in the autumn of 2016. The modest 18-year-old had been posting films from his mother’s North Carolina home to YouTube for five years, but they had received little attention.
Despite his mother’s encouragement, he left East Carolina University after just two weeks. He spent the most of his time on campus creating videos in his automobile rather than attending classes.
At school, I never spoke about anything else. He said as much to podcasters and content producers Colin and Samir in September. “I thought I was a freak of nature,” he said. “People would chide me, saying, ‘You only discuss YouTube videos. You spend way too much time on YouTube. Live a life.
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He claims that once he stopped attending school, his mother expelled him from the family out of disappointment.
But he made the right choice. Seven years later, Donaldson, also known online as MrBeast, leads all individual YouTube creators with 167 million subscribers.
On TikTok, he has 85 million fans, and he has 39 million more on Instagram. He recently passed CEO Mark Zuckerberg to become the first user of Meta’s new social media app Threads to have one million followers. (He honoured his accomplishment by donating a Tesla to a random admirer in a customary gesture.)
He may be in charge of an empire worth more than $1 billion by the age of 25. He did this by performing increasingly extravagant and spectacular feats, giving away large sums of money, and engaging in charitable deeds like funding cataract surgery for 1,000 blind individuals so they could see again.
“I just want to create better videos, end of story. Money is not important to me, he said to Colin and Samir. “I just want to create the world’s best videos,”