MrBeast's Advice To Matthew Beem

Matthew Beem says he called MrBeast for some advice when he went full-time as a YouTuber

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00:00Talking about Mr. Beast and how he's kind of been a great friend and mentor of mine.

00:03The day that I got this warehouse, I had 600,000 subscribers.

00:06I had just quit my job, terrified because I quit my job.

00:09I don't know how to be a professional full-time YouTuber.

00:12So I FaceTimed him, gave him a tour of my warehouse, and I was like,

00:14hey, when will I feel safe?

00:17Like, not that I'm going to lose everything tomorrow.

00:20And he kind of started laughing.

00:22I was like, why are you laughing?

00:23And he's like, maybe when you hit 50 million subscribers, but probably not.

00:26I was like, oh, okay.

00:27I was like, do you still feel like that?

00:28He said, yeah, I feel like it sometimes.

00:30But probably not.

00:30And I'm like, okay.

00:31You're smaller.

00:32You feel like you'll never make it.

00:33And once you make it, you're afraid of losing it.

00:35So what I try to do is maximize every second that I do have it.

00:38Because, you know, one day, you know, whether you retire or your channel does start going down,

00:44I know that these are going to be memories that I'm making for the rest of my life,

00:46no matter how long I do it.

00:47So far, it's been an incredible three and a half year run.

00:50I can tell you personally, if a video does bad, like my family knows that I think my career is over.

00:54And, you know, I go practice like my paint strokes so I can go back and paint cars.

00:59So...

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