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Noah Kagan Presents

How Ali Abdaal Grew a 700K Subscriber YouTube Channel While in Med School

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Ali is a doctor, YouTuber, podcaster, entrepreneur, and more. He started his YouTube channel as a side hustle while in med school at Cambridge. His channel now has over 775K loyal subscribers AND he’s started multiple businesses. Learn the tools, tactics, and productivity tips he used to get going!

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first few months of doing it it was a case of okay no one's really reading this what do I do but

0:04.0

now I don't know I've got like 30,000 something people reading it and I know I have to do it each week and so the

0:08.3

momentum sort of dries itself and equally now it's like it's no effort at all for me to you know come home from work and make a YouTube video because I've got the momentum I've got these I don't know 600,000 people that are you know supposedly waiting for a new video so I think starting off with requiring motivational discipline and then moving on to momentum that kind of sustains it automatically.

0:30.0

What is up you sexy bastards? It's your boy Van Life, aka Rabbi Cantlows, aka Noah Kagan.

0:35.0

In today's episode I talked to Ali Abdal, who started a YouTube channel teaching study

0:40.0

hacks and productivity tips while he was in med school at Cambridge University.

0:44.0

Today his channel has over 775,000 loyal subscribers.

0:49.0

Now Ali is the type of guy that will crush, yes destroy any excuses you have about starting a side hustle.

0:54.8

Not only did he start his channel while he was in med school, which is extremely hard, but he has also

0:59.2

graduated and now works full-time as a doctor and still finds time to put out three high-quality

1:04.4

videos every single week. If you've ever wanted to learn about what it takes to

1:08.5

grow a successful YouTube channel, you will love this episode. In this

1:12.0

conversation you'll learn three major things.

1:14.2

Number one, the latest and greatest productivity apps

1:17.0

you should be using.

1:18.4

Number two, how to balance work, life,

1:21.1

and your side hustle and three

1:23.0

all these exact process for getting big on YouTube

1:25.8

quick bonus number four after we had this conversation which was over two and a half hours

1:29.4

and we've cut it down to just the meaty parts for you

1:31.4

I felt like I was on cloud nine I loved talking Ali. I could do it all day and I'm excited to share this with you.

1:36.0

You're enjoying those three things plus a bonus plus a bunch of more ear nuggets along the way. Enjoy.

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