The Full Story of Mark Rober
The Colin and Samir Show
Colin and Samir
4.9 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? Welcome to the Colin and Samir Show. On today's episode, we are joined by a very |
| 0:07.7 | special guest, Mark Rober. Mark is a creator that we've wanted to speak to for a long time. He has a |
| 0:13.9 | super interesting story. He is an engineer by trade, but has become a YouTube creator. He started |
| 0:19.9 | out working for NASA on the Mars rover |
| 0:23.0 | that actually went to Mars. He then worked at Apple and then quit his job to become a full-time |
| 0:28.1 | YouTube creator when he had 10 million subscribers. Mark's YouTube videos have garnered over |
| 0:32.8 | 3 billion views on his channel. And one thing that's really interesting about Mark is that he |
| 0:37.4 | doesn't put out that many videos. In total, his channel. And one thing that's really interesting about Mark is that he doesn't put |
| 0:37.9 | out that many videos. In total, his channel has just about 100 videos. And in this past year, he's put out |
| 0:45.3 | about seven. But each of those videos generates over 10 million views. All right, just to give you |
| 0:51.2 | an idea of some of the videos that he makes, I'm going to read some of the titles here. |
| 0:54.6 | We've got world record domino robot that has 41 million views, world's tallest elephant |
| 1:00.4 | toothpaste volcano that has 34 million views. |
| 1:03.6 | His most recent video was titled Egg Drop from Space, where he literally dropped an |
| 1:08.0 | egg from space. |
| 1:09.0 | It was released seven days ago as of the time of this recording |
| 1:11.7 | and has 23 million views. |
| 1:14.0 | Wow. |
| 1:14.6 | So not only is Mark a prolific creator on YouTube, |
| 1:18.1 | he also recently launched a company called Crunch Labs. |
| 1:21.1 | It's an engineering subscription box |
| 1:22.6 | that helps kids learn how to think like engineers. |
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