MrBeast Reflects on Beast Games, Feastables, and the State of YouTube

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Colin and Samir

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4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Check out Spotter Studio: https://partner.spotterstudio.com/colinandsamir In our fifth interview with Jimmy Donaldson, we break down MrBeast's biggest year yet. From launching the most expensive unscripted reality show of all time—Beast Games on Prime Video—to scaling Feastables, and pushing the limits of YouTube, Jimmy opens up about the challenges of such fast-paced growth. In the interview, we cover the relationship between creators and Hollywood, his mission to disrupt Big Chocolate, how he continues to innovate on YouTube and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This meter is just going up and up and up and up and up and up.
0:02.7	And these episodes are so expensive.
0:04.8	How does this fit into the Mr. Beast business?
0:08.0	How much time we got?
0:09.0	You're becoming like Coca-Cola or like Proctor & Gamble.
0:12.0	What have you learned about scaling companies?
0:13.8	It's hard.
0:14.8	That was a rough decision.
0:16.5	It's been such a large part of my life and I've never even spoke about it publicly.
0:19.4	How are you doing that? It's not all creator's fault. It's also like the companies that are working with creators.
0:23.8	Anything past that, you're just going to destroy your YouTube channel, or it's just going to fail?
0:27.2	Is Netflix calling creators now? Is Prime Video calling more creators?
0:31.1	In what world would you recommend that we do it?
0:32.8	That I have a lot to say.
0:34.0	Um, yeah.
0:36.4	Yeah.
0:45.7	Today on the Colin and Samir show, we're joined again by Mr. Beast.
0:49.8	For the fifth time, I believe, in the history of our show.
0:51.3	We've had Jimmy on a lot.
0:55.6	We've had a lot of long-form conversations with Jimmy. And obviously, like, 2024 was a roller coaster of a year for Jimmy. It was a mix of, you know, being thrust into
1:03.6	the mainstream public eye through controversies as well as thrust into the mainstream
1:09.3	public eye because of the most expensive unscripted
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