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The Colin and Samir Show

How ZHC Became The MrBeast of Art

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

Business

4.9665 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today we speak with Zach Hsieh, a YouTuber also known as ZHC who has 24 million subscribers. He's grown his massive channel with artistic challenges and by collaborating with some of the biggest creators on the platform. We visited Zach in his Austin studio to hear more about how he grew on YouTube.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Zach.

0:01.2

One time we invested in a video, our bank account hit zero.

0:04.8

He's 21 years old and has 24 million subscribers on YouTube under the name ZHC.

0:09.7

He experienced exponential growth by customizing phones, cars, and even homes for some of the biggest

0:14.3

creators on the planet.

0:15.7

It happened insanely fast because just seven months ago we were shooting out of a house.

0:19.8

We visited his new Hollywood

0:21.0

style studio in Austin, Texas to hear the story of how he went from a shy kid who wanted to make

0:25.5

comics. I was like such a quiet kid. I was so shy. To one of the most well-known creators on YouTube.

0:36.3

Zach, so at this point you've got all these channels you have a lot going on, but where did this all start?

0:43.5

Art was a big part of my life when I was very young. So I liked to draw all the time. I like to create stories.

0:49.5

I think it was probably my junior year in high school. I started getting more into art. All my friends

0:58.3

were studying to be engineers and doctors. And for me, that didn't quite interest me. But at the

1:05.1

same time, I had no idea what I wanted to do or what I could do. So I started to doodle in class.

1:11.9

I probably should have been a better student. But I got really, really boarding class and it was very hard for me to focus in a classroom

1:16.6

setting. So I just started doodling on the sides of my papers. And all my friends were on Instagram

1:21.7

at that time and I've never touched it. And I decided to just like make an account, like post it.

1:26.4

I really wanted to drop out

1:27.8

of high school so I could just focus on improving my skill in art when my parents were good

1:32.5

parents and told me to stay in school. So when I was growing my Instagram, I think I reached

1:37.9

this point where it just didn't feel like I was going anywhere anymore and I was walking like

1:43.2

down the street to school and I was just thinking about like why it didn't feel like I was going anywhere anymore. And I was walking like down the street to school.

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