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I’m testing a few designs for the newsletter. Bear with me if things look a little different for the next few weeks. This week I’m excited to share some of my top takeaways from my interview with Jimmy Donaldson AKA MrBeast.

The Background

Okay so if you don’t know MrBeast, he’s the world’s top YouTuber. He’s got 237 million followers on his main YouTube channel, and across all his channels he’s got well over 500M followers.

His videos span a range of topics and formats, but he’s best known for stunts like burying himself alive, and giving away money.

He’s already a billionaire, he’s only 25, and he’s likely going to be the next decade’s most significant media mogul not named Taylor Swift.

He also happens to be a fan of How to Take Over the World. So he agreed to sit down for an interview for the show.

Here were three of my top impressions:

Obsession

Obsession is Jimmy’s secret sauce. He doesn’t keep a regular schedule. He doesn’t have a daily routine. He just wakes up and works on what he’s obsessed with.

Team

Jimmy has an incredibly talented team around him. They work incredibly effectively and efficiently. The secret? He doesn’t train them. He just has them tag along with whoever they need to learn from until they’re ready. It reminds me of Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem and the finding that tutoring leads to performance that is two standard deviations better than the mean!

Speed

There is no gap between thought and action for Jimmy. The first night we ever hung out, he wanted to play basketball. It was midnight. But within seconds he was on the phone seeing if he could get someone to open up a gym for us.

He moves insanely fast on any idea he has.

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