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Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Angelo Bahu - Viral Video Creator | From Donut Shop to 6 Billion Views

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Business, How To, Careers, Self-improvement, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

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Angelo Bahu is the viral force behind Yonutz, racking up 750+ million views across 8 million YouTube subscribers and 2.8 million TikTok followers. He turned his family's donut shop into a national franchise backed by Shark Tank's Kevin Harrington, with his creative content—making ice cream-stuffed SMASH Donuts based on movies and pop culture—generating multiple 20+ million view hits. Featured on Fox Business and ranked #9 in U.S. Food Entertainment, Angelo built a Gen Z empire that transformed gourmet donuts into a cultural movement.

 

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➡️ Talking Points

00:00 – Intro

01:32 – The Moment That Changed Angelo

04:18 – How His Family Joined Yonutz

10:06 – The Secret Behind His Viral Boom

16:25 – Making Your Brand Culturally Relatable

19:24 – Using Socials to Pick Your Next Location

22:20 – Opportunities That Leveled Him Up

24:19 – Sponsor Break

27:03 – Why His Content Exploded Organically

28:19 – Does Every Platform Treat Content the Same?

34:24 – Inside Angelo’s 21-Day Viral Course

43:42 – Angelo’s “Evil Twin” Growth Strategy

51:46 – Why You Must Keep Testing New Ideas

53:25 – Sponsor Break

55:55 – The New Rules of Social Media

1:00:14 – Angelo’s Best-Performing Videos

1:02:18 – Can Any Content Style Go Viral?

1:05:13 – Winning on Socials Without a Big Team

1:07:58 – The Power of a Strong CTA

1:14:19 – Podcast vs Short-Form Audiences

1:16:47 – Who Angelo’s Course Is Really For

1:20:45 – What Agencies Get Wrong About Social Media

1:24:58 – Angelo’s Hardest Career Lesson

1:26:37 – A Social Media Belief He No Longer Holds

1:27:43 – Balancing Perfectionism with Posting

1:32:51 – The Value of Pausing to Appreciate Progress

1:39:40 – The One Lesson He’d Leave His Kids

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

How's the business going?

0:01.1

We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee.

0:22.7

Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. you at the job center. We've hired some great people and Job Center Plus really took the hassle

0:21.1

out of it and there was no fee. Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. Find out more at

0:25.9

business.gov.com.uk slash recruit. Eligibility criteria apply. I feel like I've found myself

0:31.8

falling into the two things that I wanted to do my whole life. One, business and and two, being somewhere in the spotlight. When you

0:38.6

have an entrepreneurial mindset, you're not thinking about what's in front of you, but what it

0:43.5

could be. He started behind the donut counter and ended up building a social media empire.

0:48.0

Angelo Bahu, known online as Yo Angelou, turned his family's gourmet shop into a stage,

0:52.8

crafting viral recipes and stories that sparked millions of views with a Gen Z mindset and a Gen C audience. I was working in the shop one day. We were about to close. I just was like, okay, before we close, let me just make this video. I start cutting open the donut, start the video saying, I'm going to be making a flavor today. My boss said, if it goes viral, we're going to add this flavor to the menu. What made it so viral is the fact that everyone had their chance to participate.

1:13.6

He fused humor, food, and brand strategy. Proving that influence isn't about age, it's about audacity. Today, he blends tastes, trends, and tradition into a movement others only try to copy.

1:25.4

You need to take the comments as feedback. You need to take it more analytically than anything. You just have to learn how to source your confidence from within yourself. Because when you're constantly relying on positive comments to kind of keep you afloat, the second it goes away, you're lost. Anything can go viral. You just have to be able to train your eye and your brain to figure out how you can make that happen. A lot of people are under the impression that the only things that are viral are things that are viral.

1:48.0

But when you train your eye, you can see the virality in just day-to-day things.

1:52.0

You can see in anything.

2:08.3

So think about an inflection point when you were just growing up that you think had a major pivotal role in who you are today.

2:11.3

I have a few.

2:14.9

It's interesting because I feel like I've found myself falling into the two things that I wanted to do my whole life.

2:21.3

One, business and two, social media.

2:24.3

Not exactly social media because it wasn't like as much of a thing when I was a kid, but whatever the results of social media are, like being somewhere in the spotlight.

2:31.3

And I would say when I was a kid, I always loved to watch my parents

2:36.0

and how they ran their businesses and things like that. So when I was younger, I told my dad,

2:40.9

I want to make money. I want to make money. So I put my head together. I went to Home Depot. I

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