MrBeast's wealth reached 1 billion dollars!
27-year-old YouTuber MrBeast, whose real name is jimmy Donaldson, has now officially become the world's youngest self-made billionaire. He now has assets worth about 1 billion dollars (about ₹ 8,350 crores). The interesting thing is that he did not inherit this wealth but built it on his own.Who is MrBeast?Jimmy was born on 7 May 1998 in Greenville, North Carolina. He started YouTube at the age of just 12 under the name "MrBeast6000". He left college midway and made content creation his career. Today he has YouTube channels like MrBeast, Beast Reacts, MrBeast Gaming and MrBeast Philanthropy, which have a total of more than 415 million subscribers. His main channel has become the most subscribed YouTube channel in the world, with 270 million subscribers.MrBeast's success storyMrBeast started with video game commentary and reaction videos. In 2017, his video "Counting to 100,000" went viral, inwhich he counted continuously for 44 hours. After this, he touched the heights of popularity by making strange but attractive videos like "counting to 200,000", "reading the entire dictionary".A unique example of stunts and donationsFrom 2018, he started a new trend called "Stunt Philanthropy" - that is, donating huge amounts of money with big challenges. He initially started giving $1,000 to strangers, which gradually reached a prize of millions of dollars. In 2019, he organized a challenge in which one had to lay hands on a cash prize of one million dollars, and the one who did not remove his hand till the end became the winner. MrBeast invests most of his earnings back into content. In 2022, he introduced his brand to investors at a $1.5 billion valuation.Record-breaking earnings and recognitionIn 2023, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2024, he was ranked as the highest-earning YouTuber on Forbes' list. His company MrBeast Burgers earned $223 million in 2023 and is projected to reach $700 million in 2024. In june 2024, at just 26 years old, MrBeast officially became a billionaire, joining the 16 billionaires in the world who are under the age of 30 but the only one who has earned everything on his own.