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0:00We all know Mr. Beast can afford to give
0:01away millions, crash planes on purpose,
0:04and even get sued for a hundred million
0:06dollars but not give a [ __ ]
0:08Dude is rich. But to figure out how rich
0:10he really is, I'm going to be using a
0:11bunch of mind-blowing stats to show how
0:13Mr. Beast went from humble beginnings to
0:15the world's first YouTube-made
0:17billionaire, all to see if he's on
0:18trajectory to become the richest man on
0:20Earth. Go yourself.
0:22Uh, shut up, Elon. See, Mr. Beast wasn't
0:25always a billionaire celebrity cuz at
0:27first
0:27>> Back then, we just didn't [music] have
0:29much. My parents lost everything in 2008
0:31and went bankrupt.
0:32>> Jimmy Donaldson or Mr. Beast grew up in
0:34a modest North Carolina home where his
0:36mom struggled every day just trying to
0:38make ends meet until There's this
0:40YouTube channel if you were just playing
0:41Call of Duty, he was uploading it, and
0:42he mentioned that he made a hundred
0:44thousand dollars in a year off of it. I
0:45was like, "Wow, I could make YouTube
0:47videos and be able to take care of my
0:49mom and like off of YouTube videos,
0:50what?" That's when I was just like,
0:51"Okay, this is what I'm going to do. I'm
0:53going to be a YouTuber or die trying."
0:54So in February of 2012, at just 13 years
0:57of age, Jimmy created his first YouTube
0:59channel, Mr. Beast 6000, which is kind
1:02of an ass name if you ask me, but it
1:04came randomly. I just hit random
1:06generate name, and it gave me Mr. Beast
1:086000.
1:09>> This is where he started posting Pokémon
1:11battles, all sorts of other Minecraft
1:13videos, but it's safe to say at this
1:15point, dude was making less money than
1:16you. So, all right, when it came to his
1:18net worth, well, it was just about
1:21a couple of dollars for now cuz over the
1:24next few years of Mr. Beast's career
1:27he kept on uploading some pretty boring
1:28ass gaming videos alongside some other
1:30random vids like I hate PewDiePie or
1:32what is Crohn's disease.
1:34>> Huh?
1:35Yeah, with a bunch of content like that
1:36and thumbnails like these, Jimmy was
1:38just barely cracking a couple thousand
1:40views a video. So even after five whole
1:42years in the beginning of 2017, [music]
1:44I'll be generous and say dude's net
1:46worth was maybe in the low single digit
1:48thousands, not even close to his
1:50billionaire status goal, but everything
1:52was about to change with just one single
1:54video. What what was the first video
1:55that took off?
1:56>> My proudest accomplishment, I counted to
1:58100,000.
2:00I'm about to count to 100,000.
2:03Well, I guess it was worth it cuz 33
2:06million views, aka over $100,000 right
2:10there. And now having this recipe for
2:11success, he wanted to put it to work.
2:13Now, every video Jimmy posts was getting
2:16millions of views and making thousands
2:18of dollars over and over again. So,
2:20after dropping that many bangers, his
2:22net worth went to a whole new level. I
2:25mean, let me show you the math. Mr.
2:26Beast getting 464 million, 282,517
2:32views as he's publicly admitted, and
2:34also keeping in mind that he makes how
2:35much per thousand views? Most videos
2:37probably have like $5 RPM, so Okay, so
2:39take that 464 million divided by 1,000,
2:42then multiply that by five. And by the
2:44end of 2017, Mr. Beast's net worth went
2:46from just a couple thousand to now being
2:48over 2.3 million dollars.
2:51Impressive, but still hardly the richest
2:53man on Earth. Yet, cuz later on, we'll
2:56be seeing how Mr. Beast stacks up
2:57against other filthy rich influencers,
2:59billionaires, and seeing if he's on
3:01track to become the richest man on
3:02Earth. Go yourself.
3:05But before all of that, now with Jimmy's
3:07new-found wealth and his beloved mother
3:09in mind, you already know what he had to
3:11do. Open up the door real quick. Hop in
3:14our spaceship.
3:15>> A brand new white BMW i8 that he raced
3:17all over the city, got in high-speed
3:18police chases, and all leading him to
3:19getting arrested? Okay, that was all
3:22true, but not what I was getting at. He
3:24also took $100,000
3:26just to give his mom the gift of a
3:28lifetime. I want to give you a check
3:30that I've you pay for it. No, for my
3:33mortgage? I know you can buy what you
3:34want, but I figured it'd go good on your
3:36house. You won't have to pay as much
3:37every month. Oh, should we get a mansion
3:39out of this? Oh my god.
3:41>> [laughter]
3:42>> Wow, paying off the house his mom raised
3:44them in is beautiful, [music] but that
3:46100K was just the first one Mr. Beast
3:49gave away. See, most YouTubers,
3:52including [clears throat] myself, just
3:53pocket the money when our videos get
3:55sponsored. But when Mr. Beast got
3:56sponsored by a company named Quid,
3:58[music] he took that money and So you
4:00like Quid? I like Quid. Okay, here you
4:02go. I like people who like Quid.
4:04>> [laughter]
4:07>> $10,000 to homeless people, another 10K
4:10to pizza delivery drivers, 30K to Twitch
4:13streamers, and so many more giveaways.
4:15Even when Mr. Beast basically donating
4:16all of his money, he was somehow
4:18becoming richer than ever. By just the
4:20end of 2018, with Mr. Beast more than
4:22quadrupling [music] his reach by
4:23bringing in over 2 billion views, his
4:25annual YouTube income went from just
4:27around 2 mil to now well over 10 million
4:30dollars. 10 mil, and dude couldn't even
4:33donate $1 to me or subscribe to my
4:35channel for free?
4:36>> [snorts]
4:37>> So, could you subscribe? Please? But
4:40anyways, enough about me. Cuz Mr. Beast
4:42reached a new level of success by giving
4:44his money away, it also started the
4:46trend of Mr. Beast actually spending
4:48loads of cash just to make his videos. I
4:50mean, giving away Lambos, battle buses,
4:53buying out every billboard in a city,
4:54and so much more. I checked, it was
4:57impossible to guess his actual net worth
4:59at this time cuz he was basically
5:00spending everything he made. So, since
5:02we weren't able to find out his actual
5:03net worth again until it finally started
5:05getting officially reported
5:07I'll just quickly summarize his years up
5:09until then cuz they were still massive
5:11for Mr. Beast.
5:12Cuz ironically, the more he spent, the
5:14more views he'd get. Then on top of
5:16putting up numbers like those and upping
5:18the production of his videos to now
5:19include other things like blowing up
5:21yachts with cannonballs.
5:22>> Look at everything his yacht endured. He
5:25also started multiple other companies
5:26like his fan-favorite clothing company
5:28Shop Mr. Beast that fans instantly fell
5:30in love with. With just one merch drop
5:32being estimated to have made 750K alone
5:35and more than 50 million dollars over
5:37the next few years. Fans really got man
5:39paid, even though stepping out wearing
5:41shirts like this wasn't getting any of
5:43them laid. But anyways, moving on to
5:442020, Mr. Beast's next company was Mr.
5:47Beast Burger, his own delivery-only
5:49burger joint. But, this time, fans
5:51weren't feeling as meat nearly as much
5:53as his clothes.
5:55Oh, man. Okay, that was really
5:57disappointing to see.
6:00What do you guys see?
6:01>> [laughter]
6:02>> That's not a grilled cheese, my G.
6:04Yeah, and quality like that didn't just
6:06piss off fans. Even though the company
6:09generated millions of dollars in sales
6:10during its first year, it actually got
6:12Mr. Beast sued for a ridiculous hundred
6:15million dollars. But, that's a story for
6:17another day cuz first, we got to talk
6:19about
6:19>> Feastables is the best tasting chocolate
6:21in the world.
6:22>> January 29th, 2022, marked the day that
6:25Mr. Beast launched Feastables, his own
6:27ethically sourced chocolate company that
6:29was an instant success. See, Feastables
6:31not only tastes pretty good, if I may
6:33say so myself,
6:36it immediately brought in 33 million
6:38dollars in sales for just the first
6:40year, triple that to over 90 million the
6:42year after, then come 2024, Feastables
6:44not only reached a crazy 250 million in
6:47sales, it finally pushed Mr. Beast over
6:49the edge to make this happen. Mr. Beast
6:51is the world's biggest YouTube star with
6:54397
6:56million subscribers. [music] And now,
6:58he's a billionaire.
6:59Man, so after 14 years of nonstop
7:02YouTube grinding, and not only on one
7:03channel, but dozens that have replicated
7:06his formulas in many ways. There's a
7:07reason that Mr. Beast keeps doing higher
7:09dollar amount vids than anyone in
7:11YouTube history from $10,000 giveaways
7:13up to 100,000, 250,000 to a half a
7:17milli, all the way up to a million
7:18dollar videos without even counting the
7:20production of the vids themselves. It's
7:21because of a massive over 220 million
7:24dollar YouTube year, on top of
7:26Feastables racking in hundreds of
7:27millions of dollars itself that finally
7:29pushed Mr. Beast into a billionaire
7:31status. And since then, he's only gotten
7:33even richer. But, how rich is he
7:35actually? Well, I'll reveal just how
7:37rich in a bit after we go over some
7:39mind-blowing facts about his wealth.
7:40Like,
7:41>> [clears throat]
7:42>> did you know that after becoming a
7:43billionaire at just 26 years old, Mr.
7:45Beast became the youngest self-made
7:47billionaire on Earth? Or that going up
7:49on Mr. Beast Industries reportedly
7:50making nearly $900 million last year
7:53that would mean that all of Mr. Beast's
7:54companies together earn him $103,000 an
7:57hour, over $1,700 a minute, $28 a
8:00second, or enough to buy a fully loaded
8:02brand new 2025 Porsche once every 3
8:05hours? But, the only thing stopping him
8:07from doing that is his mom? No, I'm
8:10serious. Mr. Beast said it himself that
8:12he doesn't even have access to his own
8:13bank accounts cuz his mom still manages
8:16them. But, I bet you didn't know that
8:18Mr. Beast's YouTube revenue is barely
8:20even 3% of his entire income cuz with
8:23his projected 2025 gross income being at
8:25around $900 million,
8:27doing our little math equation we did
8:29earlier to figure out his YouTube
8:30earnings brings us to 24.7 million in ad
8:33revenue, just 2.74% of his annual
8:36income.
8:37Bet you didn't know that. And one last
8:39fact I guarantee you didn't know is that
8:41despite being a billionaire, Mr. Beast
8:42is actually broke. What? Well, just let
8:45him explain. You're a billionaire. I'm
8:46like, that's net worth. I don't I have
8:48negative money right now. I'm borrowing
8:49money. That's how little money I have.
8:51Technically, everyone watching this
8:52video has more money than me in their
8:53bank account if you subtract the equity
8:55value of my company, which doesn't buy
8:57me McDonald's in the morning. Yeah, see,
8:58Mr. Beast is known for reinvesting all
9:00the money he makes and more back into
9:02his channels. I've always reinvested
9:04back in the channel. Sometimes I run out
9:06of money and I have to take out a loan.
9:07>> Really? Yeah. So, almost all of his
9:08entire net worth just comes from his
9:10equity or his about 50% ownership of all
9:13Mr. Beast companies, which are valued at
9:15over $5 billion.
9:17And wait, did I mention that dude owns a
9:18theme park now? I BUILT THIS MASSIVE
9:21THEME PARK AND IT IS open right now.
9:25>> [laughter]
9:25>> All right, we get it. Dude's loaded, but
9:27just how loaded? Well, according to the
9:29latest official 2026 estimate, Mr. Beast
9:32is now worth a ridiculous $2.6 billion.
9:36Billions [music]
9:37with a B. But, hold on hold on hold on.
9:39That's not even the craziest part about
9:40how rich Mr. Beast actually is. What's
9:42really mind-blowing is when you use that
9:44number and put Mr. Beast up against the
9:46entire world starting with his fellow
9:48influencers. According to Forbes,
9:50excluding company equity, this is how
9:52the other top
9:55nine influencers did when it comes to
9:572025 but here's Mr. Beast. All right.
10:00Now, that's actually closer than I
10:01thought, but when it comes to net worth,
10:03well, while Speed measures in at 30
10:05million, [ __ ] poor people. Charli
10:07D'Amelio and Markiplier pass him at 45.
10:09You got [music] xQc sitting at 50
10:11million, [ __ ] poor people. Jimmy, we get
10:13it. There's also Logan Paul weighing in
10:14at 150 million, his brother Jake at 200
10:17mil, then we got Mr. Beast who's
10:19literally daddy and dunking all over
10:20everybody once again at over $2.6
10:23billion in net worth, but we already
10:25knew that Mr. Beast was the richest
10:27influencer [music] alive. How would
10:28things change if we put Jimmy's net
10:30worth up against some of the richest
10:31billionaires alive? Well, [music] this
10:33time let's start with Mr. Beast. And
10:35even though he's already higher than
10:36gods like LeBron and Ronaldo, when it
10:38comes to, let's see, the 100th richest
10:41person alive, well,
10:43almost 10x Mr. Beast? Harry, you got to
10:46chill.
10:46>> Daddy, chill. But that's just the
10:48beginning, cuz what if I showed you the
10:4950th richest person alive? The 10th
10:51richest person alive? The sixth? Bezos?
10:55Zuck? Uh Elon?
10:58Oh my 845 billion? Yeah, uh Mr. Beast
11:01isn't even close. You'd have to scroll
11:03all the way down the Forbes billionaire
11:04list down at number 1520 just to find
11:07out where Mr. Beast finds himself. But
11:09listen, [music] what do all those guys
11:10blowing Mr. Beast out of the water have
11:12in common? These [ __ ] are old
11:13as [ __ ] If we level the playing field
11:15and show all those same billionaires'
11:17net worths when they were also 27 years
11:19old like Mr. Beast, this is how things
11:21would play out. Almost none of these
11:22billionaires had even gotten their
11:23companies off the ground. I mean, Zuck
11:25is the single billionaire here with a
11:27lead on Jimmy at his current age. So, to
11:29now let's the question of the entire
11:31video, how rich is Mr. Beast actually?
11:33Well, even though he's not even close to
11:35the richest man alive now, he's already
11:37far surpassed most of these billionaires
11:39at his current age. And looking at the
11:40trajectory that Mr. Beast's net worth is
11:42going on, catching and even surpassing
11:44the richest people on Earth is getting
11:45more and more achievable for him. I
11:47mean, he's already diversifying his
11:49income streams more and more, having
11:51literally just purchased another
11:52multi-hundred million-dollar finance
11:54app. He just got a $200 million
11:55investment from a massive crypto
11:57company. Plus his YouTube channels are
11:59showing no signs of slowing down. And
12:01don't even get me started on how he's
12:02been able to adapt to ridiculous views
12:04on YouTube shorts, dominate TikTok as
12:06well, and as one of the highest
12:07performing Amazon shows of all time with
12:09Beast Games. To put it simply, he has
12:12all the signs of someone with the
12:13potential to become the richest man
12:14alive.
12:15>> [music]
12:15>> But Mr. Beast's biggest goal has never
12:17changed. He's doing all this and
12:20becoming as rich as possible just
12:21because he wants to help people and
12:23change the world.
12:24>> I think [music] so many people just are
12:26so materialistic and they just that's
12:28just what they chase and I really don't
12:30want [music] that lifestyle. When you
12:32die, why does it matter? You know what I
12:34mean? All this materialistic [music]
12:35stuff. I really just want to focus on
12:36building the business and helping people
12:38cuz I feel like that's more of what
12:39matters in life.