MrBeast Winner Breaks Silence On Stealing Money, Going To Prison, & Hitting Rock Bottom

The Iced Coffee Hour

Graham Stephan/Jack Selby

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm no tech genius, but I knew if I wanted my business to crush it, I needed a website now.
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0:30.8	I build this maximum security prison.
0:33.9	And if this cop and this criminal survive a hundred days together, I will give them half a million dollars.
0:40.2	I went to prison when I was 21, and I never expected that would help me win a Mr. Beast video.
0:45.3	My prison experience was just crazy from all the different prisons I was in to all the incidents that
0:50.1	happened to every little thing. Do you feel bad for what you did? It was ridiculous. I was 18, two months after graduation, and I had like $600,000 in my bank account. And then I hit rock bottom. How accurate was Mr. Bees' prison to real-life prison? Physically, it was very realistic. Like, the guy had the actual prison toilet. But mentally, it was different without having real prison guards pulling the strings.
1:13.3	What do you mean by that?
1:14.0	Like 90% of the prison violence is caused by guards creating this environment.
1:18.1	The inmates run the prison, and the guards let it happen.
1:20.7	But I didn't realize how hard it was going to be.
1:22.9	Is there anything in the video he didn't want the audience to know?
1:32.7	Yeah. in the video he didn't want the audience to know. So Ian, I really enjoyed your video with Mr. Beast.
1:36.5	100 days in prison for almost $500,000.
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