Welcome back to the Ground Up Show. My name is Matt Diavella and my guest today is Jack coin.

Jack started out as Casey Neistat's assistant and has gone on to create a popular YouTube channel of his own

as well as a production company. His channel went viral earlier this year when he posted a video titled

I Got Fired. We talk about how he's been able to keep the momentum going, whether you should seek passion or stability,

and he offers some advice for those who are looking to land their first gig and become indispensable.

Stick around after the podcast to learn about how you can contribute to the show, keep it advertisement free,

and even get my secret vlog.

You have had an interesting year to say the least. 2018, the year of Jack coin. How is it going so far?

What do you have been up to lately? And then we can always delve back and talk about what you've got here.

Yeah, well it's been terrible. No, it's been fantastic. So I'm doing my own thing this year for the first time.

Since graduating college, I have my own job and my own business and working for me.

So every day I get to wake up and do a project that I care about or that is, you know, I chose to do.

So recently I've been sort of trying to focus the vision of what my story is, what my brand is,

and how I can make the best movies possible, the best videos possible.

So the most recent big project that I did was a video for a company called Machivar,

which is a nationally distributed Macha energy drink. My friends started this company as a cafe

like five years ago, and they, I'd been aware of it and I'd been to the cafe a bunch of times,

and they had this new drink that was coming out, and they kind of reached out to me based on other

videos that I've been doing on YouTube, and they said, we want you to tell this story.

So that's kind of started in March and it just came out in July, but it went really, really,

well, it was really well received, and it was a ton of fun to work on, and it was like a brand

story. It was a three and a half minute YouTube video that was kind of like this is who we are,

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