YouTuber Mrbeast, 27, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, became the only billionaire under the age of 30 that inherited his wealth. He is also the eighth youngest billionaire worldwide with an estimated $ 1 billion ( £8 350 crore) Fortune, Clean Celebrity States.
Who is Jimmy Donaldson aka Mrbeast?
Mrbeast was born on May 7, 1998 in Greenville, North Carolina and launched his way to YouTube at the age of 12 under the user name “Mrbeast6000”. He is a graduate of Greenville Christian Academy and emphasized the creation of full -time content after he dropped out of college.
His YouTube channels, including Mrbeast, Beast Reacts, Mrbeast Gaming and Mrbeast Philanthropy, have more than 415 million subscribers.
The MRBEEST main channel has 270 million subscribers and becomes the most prescribed YouTube channel around the world.
How did Mrbeast rise to fame?
Its early content included video game comments, reaction videos and funny compilations. Mrbeast’s first received extensive attention in 2017 with a viral video called “Counting per 100,000”, which lasted 44 hours to achieve and gained more than 21 million views. Based on this success, it was to create other viral pieces such as counting on 200,000, reading the whole dictionary and taking unusual challenges, such as watching music video on a loop for 10 hours.
Until 2018, he specialized in what is now called “stunt philanthropy”. This creates videos that include challenges to take attention to giving away huge money gifts. One early popular video showed him that he gives a foreigner $ 1,000. In the following videos, the amounts escalated dramatically, eventually reaching hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars.
In December 2019, he organized a challenge where the participants had to hold their hand in a pile of cash of $ 1 million and the last person who took his hand won money.
Mrbeast is known for returning almost all his video earnings to the production of new content. In November 2022, the news appeared that he was looking for investors in his business and appreciated it at $ 1.5 billion.
In 2023, Time magazine included Mrbeast in its list of 100 most influential people in the world. Next year he claimed the highest place on the Forbes list as the creator of YouTube with the highest earnings from 2024 with an estimated net value of $ 1 billion (approximately £8 350 crore).
At the beginning of 2024, the court documents related to his company Mrbeast Burgers revealed that his business empire brought revenues of $ 223 million in 2023, and in 2024 he was $ 700 million in 2024. All alone, without inherited wealth.
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