For MrBeast, arguably the biggest star on YouTube, the journey from bed to the conference room only takes about 30 seconds. That’s why the 25-year-old content creator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist sleeps right at the office, in his North Carolina studio, according to Fortune.
During an appearance on the ‘Howie Mendel Does Stuff’ podcast, MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, gave the comedian a tour of his bedroom.
The couple was chatting in the studio warehouse when MrBeast proactively showed Mendel “where he lives”, the room right next to him.
“This is my bedroom,” Donaldson told Mendel. The room had a table with a couple of screens, a sofa in front of a large TV with another table behind it, and in the corner there was a double bed hidden behind a set of curtains.
Off the office/master bedroom is the bathroom and walk-in closet.
Donaldson said he lives at the studio full time, unless his girlfriend is in town.
He added: “Sometimes… I’ll go to a house.”
According to Forbes, the man with a personal fortune of $500 million is said to own a modest four-bedroom, four-bathroom property that he bought in 2018 for about $320,000, according to the filing. profile obtained by the New York Post.
The property is located in Donaldson’s home state of North Carolina, in a city called Greenville, where the star is also buying homes for his family and staff.
Last year, Donaldson hit back at critics on social media who said buying expensive homes for loved ones was cultish behavior. “Only I can stop giving people a place to live with no strings attached,” Donaldson wrote on X.
However, it turns out that despite the proximity to loved ones and the spaciousness of the larger home he owns, the studio is still the most convenient place for MrBeast.
“It’s much more convenient here because I don’t have to drive as much,” Donaldson told Mendel. “This is where I sleep and just wake up, walk out the door and go to work.”
Hosting celebrities like Brady and Timberlake
The studio is also where MrBeast hosts movie stars like Tom Brady and artist Justin Timberlake, Donaldson said, although he doesn’t know whether they keep his living arrangements a secret.
Donaldson, who currently has 264 million subscribers on his main YouTube channel alone, said he knows his lifestyle is very unusual.
Unlike many content creators based in California or New York, Donaldson admits his studio is in “the middle of nowhere.”
However, MrBeast told Mendel that the fact that his studio is not located in a so-called creative hub has absolutely no impact on his ability to connect with what global audiences want to see.
“Only things that people really like, things that cross cultures, borders and things like that, are worth talking about, worth doing. Much of what we do is the same no matter where you are in Mexico , in America or in Germany. It’s what everyone wants, you want too,” he explained.
Inspired by Steve Jobs
A look around Donaldson’s room gives a better sense of the young philanthropist’s goals, whether his content career or the much larger world of business.
Donaldson also founded MrBeast Burger, which broke the world record for selling Feastables-branded chocolate.
According to Business Insider, these efforts have brought his annual income to around $600 million to $700 million.
On the wall of Donaldson’s studio bedroom are quotes from Apple founder Steve Jobs: “If you want to make people happy, don’t become a leader, sell ice cream.”
“That’s one of my favorite quotes of his,” Donaldson told Mendel.
Details reveal the motivation behind the fun-loving creator who makes videos like “Stop this train, win a Lamborghini” and “The world’s most dangerous laser maze.”
But Donaldson is also competing with the world’s most famous CEOs by giving a new meaning to the office: the personal bedroom.
For example, Elon Musk is a figure with whom MrBeast had some interaction after the Tesla CEO and X owner asked the YouTube content creator to start releasing his content on the social media site. festival.
Musk is famous for often sleeping on the factory floor at Tesla before switching to sleeping under the table so his work team can see him.
Additionally, shortly after acquiring X in 2022, Musk — who was falling on the list of the world’s richest people — began sleeping in Twitter’s offices, as it was known at the time.
He told the BBC that he had a spot on a bench in the library on the seventh floor of the building that “no one came to”.
Meanwhile, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he also competed with his colleagues to see how little sleep he could get, right at work.
Peter Brown, CEO of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, also told the Goldman Sachs Exchanges podcast that he slept nearly 2,000 nights in his Long Island office.
