Inside Mr. Beast's Forbes Magazine Cover Story | Forbes

Why would anyone spend 50 hours buried alive just to make a YouTube video? Jimmy Donaldson—a.k.a. “MrBeast”—had 54 million reasons last year. The world’s top-earning creator is already worth $500 million—and thinks he can double that.

Forbes Staff Writer Chloe Sorvino sat down with Diane Brady to talk about her cover story on Donaldson, what it's like to spend time with the YouTuber and what he hopes to accomplish next.

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[hankthebird]

If you watch it at 1.5x speed it sounds like a normal video

[blutoonz]

sounds like she's speaking at 0.75x speed

[Half-CockedG]

The energy in this video is off the charts!!!! MUCH EXCITEMENT!!!!

[KitKatinBama]

What's up with Chloe? Speaking so slowly. Couldn't finish watching for fear she might fall asleep 😴

[doublebanana-dedt]

Great insights and clearly voiced! Though I agree with the other commenters with the speed, so I did play it on 1.5 speed.

[AlbinoCrow]

For a sec I was like Meghan Trainor changed jobs?

[trexinvert]

Jimmy will be the first person to "give away" a billion dollars. He doesn't care about flexing dollars or being an entrepreneur. He owns his own studio and equipment in North Carolina, not silicon beach. He's an artist and video craftsman. Forbes has no idea how to explain this to salesmen. Did Forbes even click and watch Mr. Beast videos?

[kalambre]

Parental neglect, are you serious? Single mother that has to work is not neglecting the child. The interviewer is a hack at their job.

[philipfong]

The tone is very boring, I don't know who Mr. Beast is, his video is not suggested in my feed.

[witness]

How about you not do interviews with people with Asperger's, this is weird and uncomfortable.