A $17,000 gamble on YouTube ft. Airrack

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Watch the video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/kzBU9gEHx_M Check out our Online Storytelling Course: https://moment.8ocm68.net/keM6z Eric Decker aka Airrack started uploading to YouTube in January 2020. He started this year with 50 YouTube subscribers and today he has over 500,000. He’s had explosive growth this year and his mission is to get to 1M youtube subscribers - in order to get there he’s had to do some pretty crazy things including taking out a $17,000 loan to pay for one video. He’s one of the most committed creators we’ve come across and we definitely feel like he has what it takes to get to 1M subs and probably even further than that - and once you hear this episode I think you’ll agree with us on that as well. If you aren’t familiar with his videos, just type in Airrack on YouTube, I’d recommend that you watch his Couch series, that’ll give you a pretty good understanding of who he is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I went to the bank the next day and applied for an SBA loan of $17,500, got it a day later,
0:06.1	cashed the entire thing out in 20s, packed in a backpack, bought a flight to L.A. And then we leave.
0:11.1	And I remember thinking to myself, I hope that he doesn't accept this so that I can just put
0:15.2	this money back in the bank and undo all of this because this is like so much risk, it makes my stomach hurt. This week on the Colin
0:22.1	and Smear podcast, we're joined by a guest, which is something that hasn't happened in a while.
0:26.9	We're joined by Eric Decker, aka A.k. He's a YouTube creator that started this year with 50
0:33.8	YouTube subscribers. And today, he has over 500,000. He's had explosive growth on the platform this
0:40.5	year. And his mission is to get to 1 million YouTube subscribers by the end of the year. And in order
0:46.1	to get there, he's had to do some pretty crazy things, including taking out a $17,000 loan to pay
0:52.9	for one single video. He's one of the most committed
0:56.4	creators we've come across and we definitely feel like he has what it takes to get to a million
1:00.8	subs and probably even much further than that. Once you hear this episode, I think you'll agree with
1:05.4	us on that as well. If you aren't familiar with his videos, just type in ARAC on YouTube.
1:10.0	That's A-I-R-R-A-C-K. I'd recommend that you
1:13.4	watch his couch series. That'll give you a pretty good understanding of who he is on the platform.
1:17.9	This episode is also being recorded on our brand new podcasting gear, which is so awesome.
1:23.3	Road sent us a bunch of new podcasting gear, which also allows us to film the podcast. It's really
1:28.6	cool. We're filming it out of our new studio. And we uploaded the full video of this podcast to our new
1:34.2	YouTube channel, which is the Colin and Samir podcast YouTube channel. That's right. We're starting
1:39.4	a second channel for this podcast. We can start uploading video clips there. Our goal is to eventually launch
1:45.5	a Patreon or we can have exclusive content clips and videos for our Patreon community. And that's
1:51.4	something that we want to develop with all of you. So we love your thoughts and feedback on it.
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