The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Casey Neistat (The Untold Story): "I was a homeless dad at 15 & had $200k debt!"...The Crazy Story Of How I Became The World's No.1 Video Creator!

12.11.2023 - By DOACPlay

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If you enjoy hearing about the challenges of being a creator, I recommend you check out my conversation with the creator of ‘Call Her Daddy, Alex Cooper, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knPqBc2qJ8E

There’s carving your own lane and then having over 3 billion people view the lane you have carved, all from the starting point of being a 17 year old teen father living in a trailer park.

Casey Neistat is an America YouTuber, vlogger, filmmaker, and co-founder of the mobile application ‘Beme’, which he sold to CNN in 2016. He is one of the most famous people on YouTube, and his channel has over 12 million subscribers and 3 billion views.

In this conversation Casey and Steven discuss topics, such as:

How life has thrown unpredicted things at him

Having a child as a teenager

Leaving home forever on a school night

Working 80 hours a week and doing anything to support his son

The importance of patience

Why he felt like a scumbag

Feeling as if he was never heard

Why he started making videos

The reasons behind his filmmaking style

The magic of Mr Beast

Why Mr Beast is the most important person in the history of entertainment

How great work matter

The strangeness of fame

Why you need to do something you hate to figure out what you like

Being the definition of success but being in debt

Becoming a millionaire but disappointing the people who got him there

His moment of real darkness

The challenge of his daily vlog

How his daily vlog was taking away from his life

Linking happiness and fulfilment with winning

The only thing that gives him fulfilment

The importance of knowing that nobody gives a care about you

Follow Casey:

Instagram: https://bit.ly/47NRUB8

Twitter: https://bit.ly/3RcoHZD

YouTube: https://bit.ly/41altdX

Follow me:

https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo

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