Beast Games Winner Breaks Silence on $5,000,000 Prize, MrBeast Controversy, & Spending Everything

The Iced Coffee Hour

Graham Stephan/Jack Selby

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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0:00.0	Turn on the lights!
0:02.0	So what was the final amount that you won in Beast Games too?
0:06.0	$5,106,000.
0:10.0	It was one of the hardest things I've ever done.
0:15.0	I'm a competitor. I came there to go to the end. I came to win.
0:19.0	Now that I have all this money, I'm trying to figure out what I have to do with it.
0:25.7	How much money do you have left? The last time I checked, I had...
0:29.6	What do you spend it on?
0:31.6	A Lamborghini, and then I bought two new houses.
0:34.6	I knew that there would be other opportunities to make money.
0:39.0	What would you criticize about these games? It's tough, man. Eight months of keeping a secret,
0:44.9	but the truth is...
0:50.3	Tyler from Beast Games 2, thank you so much for coming on the ice coffee hour.
0:55.1	You just won $5 million.
0:57.1	And everyone wants to know, how much are you paying in tax?
1:01.3	Exactly, man.
1:02.2	It's a good question.
1:05.0	Fortunate enough to have Texas as my state.
1:08.3	So I don't have to worry too much about that.
1:09.9	But got to mitigate the federal taxes.
1:12.8	So right now, I've got a legal and financial team
1:15.9	that I'm working with, and we're coming up with good strategies
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