From Giving Away $10 to $1,000,000, Millionaire MrBeast Recalls How Much He Could Afford to Spend on a Video Back in the Day

In the YouTube sphere, no other independent content creator is nearly as big as MrBeast. MrBeast is known for his extreme challenges with unfathomable rewards and million-dollar giveaways. But there was a time when even he couldn’t dream of numbers like this. 

Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast is the current king of YouTube. As he is the biggest independent content creator on the platform. Recently he has crossed 114 million subscribers, after having recently taken the throne from PewDiePie, who was the former most subscribed individual creator on YouTube. 

There are speculations that he makes almost a billion dollars with his main channel alone. Besides his multiple YouTube channels, he owns a very successful fast-food chain called Beast Burger and a chocolate company called Feastables.

This massive enterprise of MrBeast lets him go as crazy as he wants with his videos. Once MrBeast confessed that it takes him around three to four million dollars to make one video for the main channel and a couple of hundred grands for the secondary channel. But in his initial days, these figures were nothing but wild dreams. 

How much did the old MrBeast videos cost?

Almost a year ago in a podcast with Colin and Samir, MrBeast recalled his journey of reaching the level where he was right now. At the beginning of the interview, the hosts asked Jimmy about his newly brought studio, which cost him around $10 million, which he paid upfront. 

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MrBeast said, even though he currently shoots in a million-dollar studio, he started in his bedroom. As the conversation progressed, Collin asked Jimmy about his absurd spending, like how he giveaways $500,000 to a million dollars in his videos now. Collin wanted to know how was it when it all started.

To this MrBeast answered that at first, “It started with a hundred dollars, literally even less than that like donating like $10 to streamers in twitch and stuff like that.” Jimmy confessed even though his videos have reached an astronomical level, it all began with a sum as low as $10. 

Jimmy shared his experience with his first IRL video. He said, “Like the first IRL one (video), I would order a pizza and I’d tip a 100 bucks. I think I did three like it so it was three hundred dollars.” It is truly fascinating how YouTube’s biggest series began with just $300. 

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