Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson is an internet personality, businessman, and philanthropist. He operates several popular YouTube channels, a delivery based fast food restaurant, MrBeast Burger, and two philanthropic programs: Beast Philanthropy, and Team Trees.
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Yeah, it's been crazy because I've been doing it since I was 11.
Really?
Yeah, so now I'm 23 and so it's just like basically every year it just got crazier and crazier and I used to make a dollar a day.
Well, the first few years I wasn't even making money off YouTube, but once I started making money, I was making a dollar a day.
And I saved up for a couple months, I bought a microphone, saved up for half a year, I got a computer, and I've just always reinvested it.
And so it's like literally just all, I mean I was like as awkward as they came, no money, no nothing, and I just basically just obsessed over YouTube every day for a decade.
Are your first episodes available when you were 11 years old?
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