Casey Neistat (The Untold Story): "I was a homeless dad at 15 & had $200k debt!"...The Crazy Story Of How I Became The World's No.1 Video Creator!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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If you enjoy hearing about the challenges of being a creator, I recommend you check out my conversation with the creator of ‘Call Her Daddy, Alex Cooper, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knPqBc2qJ8E There’s carving your own lane and then having over 3 billion people view the lane you have carved, all from the starting point of being a 17 year old teen father living in a trailer park. Casey Neistat is an America YouTuber, vlogger, filmmaker, and co-founder of the mobile application ‘Beme’, which he sold to CNN in 2016. He is one of the most famous people on YouTube, and his channel has over 12 million subscribers, with 3 billion views. Follow Casey: Instagram: https://bit.ly/47NRUB8 Twitter: https://bit.ly/3RcoHZD YouTube: https://bit.ly/41altdX Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now: https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter: http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin: https://bit.ly/41Fl95Q Telegram: http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Sponsors: Whoop: https://join.whoop.com/en-uk/CEO Huel: https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb Uber Trains: https://uber.com/gb/en/u/travel-uk/trains/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It got scary. We had to move into a higher security building and I didn't know what to do
0:06.7	That's when it got dark
0:08.1	facing nice that the godfather of YouTube the king of, one of the most prolific creators in history.
0:16.9	Throughout your story, there's this objectively delusional
0:19.2	persistence towards a goal.
0:20.7	The word I've been using is patience,
0:22.4	because patience is so unattractive, I think you need to remove this idea of success being this romantic beautiful thing. It's not.
0:29.0	When I started my daily blog making a video a day 800 days in a row it took eight years to go from zero to
0:35.1	a couple hundred thousand subscribers failing year in and year out now
0:38.9	two hundred thousand dollars in debt itful. You're a loser. But patients will smash into opportunity and then
0:46.9	it went to 10 million subscribers in like 18 months. So in life you can get whatever you want,
0:52.4	but are you willing to do that for 20 years?
0:54.8	If you're not, don't bother, man.
0:56.8	You've sold the company, you've built the channels, you've made a huge name for yourself at that point.
1:01.2	That's when it got hard. Because the only goal that anyone should have in life is one of happiness and fulfillment.
1:06.4	And like this idea that you have to win to be happy could not be further from the truth.
1:10.0	I had by every definition achieved success, but I wasn't running the marathon because I wanted to get across the finish line.
1:16.4	I was running it because I loved of running.
1:18.2	And the fame was fucking insane.
1:20.6	Like we had to move to LA, and I didn't know what to do until now.
1:25.0	Is this a new Casey? What can we expect?
1:28.0	Casey is a legend.
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