MrBeast
American YouTuber, media personality and businessman (born 1998) · United States · YouTubers
MrBeast is read about 13,472 times a day, in 69 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 17 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 392 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?He turned counting to 100,000 into a career blueprint: challenge videos scaled to absurd extremes, wrapped in giveaways so large they became their own spectacle. The most-subscribed individual channel on YouTube didn't grow by accident - it grew by making the stakes impossible to scroll past.
A life in dates
Also in Deutsch
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Current members of the MrBeast crew. From left to right: Karl Jacobs, Nolan Hansen, and Chandler Hallow
Donaldson in December 2018
Donaldson in September 2023
An example of Donaldson's YouTube content
The first physical MrBeast Burger restaurant in New Jersey
A new formula Feastables bar
Lunchly-brand "nacho chips with queso blanco and salsa" snack kitIn their own words 3
, I don't party. I barely have friends. And there is a risk: I look back when I'm 50 and I'm like, 'Damn, I literally only did that one thing and nothing else.
I want to be the biggest YouTube channel ever. Not even for my ego. It just gives me something to strive for, to get out of bed and grind for. But it’s also just vanity.
I'm borrowing money. That's how little money I have.
On YouTube
522M subscribersAwards
In their orbit
About this person
Jimmy Donaldson started uploading in 2012 from Greenville, North Carolina, posting Let's Plays and guesses at other creators' earnings. The 2017 counting video changed the trajectory - suddenly tens of thousands watched, and the production values ratcheted up to match. He pulled in longtime friends, spun out companion channels, and built Beast Industries around the formula. Co-founded Team Trees in 2019 (over $24 million raised), Team Seas ($30 million), Team Water in 2025 ($40 million). Launched MrBeast Burger, Feastables, Lunchly. Four Streamy Creator of the Year awards, Time 100 twice, Forbes' top-earning YouTuber in 2024. Fortune pegged his net worth at $2.6 billion in 2026 - a sum built on attention that never learned to look away.
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