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Noah Kagan Presents

How to Operate Your Youtube Channel Like The Mafia (w/ Jake Tran)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jake Tran is a 22-year-old YouTuber who makes entrepreneurial video essays on subjects like “How The Ultra Wealthy Evade Taxes” and “The Economics of the Mafia”.

He currently has 500k subscribers, but Jake spent his early years on YouTube seeing little traction. It wasn’t until he pivoted his content towards long-form video essays that his channel started to see meaningful growth.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to run your YouTube Channel like the mafia, you’re going to love this episode.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up you beautiful bastards? It is your boy strumboly Shorty. I had to Google what that was

0:06.2

aka Rap I can't lose aka no a kegan. Jake Trin is the future of entertainment.

0:10.8

He is popular on YouTube making video essays about how the ultra wealthy

0:14.3

evade taxes, I'm trying to find out how they do it, to videos about the economics of the mafia.

0:18.7

Jake is one of these kids that started out watching YouTube from a very early age, wanted to do this as a career and has actually made

0:24.4

it happen after a really long slog and now has over 500,000 subscribers.

0:28.4

If you've ever wanted to learn about how to iterate, find your audience, and become a full-time

0:32.2

content creator, you are going to love this episode. There's three iterate, find your audience, and become a full-time content

0:32.6

creator, you are going to love this episode. There's three gigantic things you're

0:35.5

going to take away. Numero, what business lessons we can learn from corrupt

0:38.6

countries and enterprises like the mafia, how Jake was able to differentiate his channel when it wasn't working and actually grow now exponentially,

0:45.6

and three, what Jake's research on corruption greed and the global economy?

0:48.7

I sound so serious, has taught him about the future.

0:51.0

Enjoy those three things, plus a bunch more nuggets along the future. Enjoy those three things plus a bunch more

0:52.8

your nuggets along the way. Before we dive into the show, make sure you're

0:56.8

subscribe to my YouTube channel. That's YouTube.

0:58.6

That's YouTube. Okay Dork. And go subscribe. Why there's so many subscriptions

1:02.0

they're all free though don't worry that's

1:03.5

apseomo.com the number one digital marketplace for entrepreneurs so if you're buying

1:07.2

or you want to sell software books or courses to other entrepreneurs app zoomo

1:10.4

com is your new home page.

1:12.6

Also a special pre-show, Shout Out listener,

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