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Mr. Beast Turned Down a $1B Offer to Buy His Brand

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0:00 title of this video is maximizing the deal [Music] that's our boy Mr Beast hey I love Mr Beast week here at JK this week let's talk about how this guy just turned down a billion dollar offer for his channel so why I want to know why I want to know how I want to know what he's liquid do you think he's it's because he's dumb as ████ I mean dude I I think there's a lot of image behind him for some reason I think he's a really smart kid he's smart but I think that there's something behind him where he thinks that having money sucks and like makes him look like ████ and I'm like please stop doing that because it makes me feel like ████ because I want that you know what I think it is I think my

0:51 ideas suck ass so they're under a billion dollars so for me I'm like a billion dollar buyout that's awesome give it to me but his ideas are probably above a billion dollars so he's like this is too small I could scale my ████ way bigger Martin how the ████ can you think that how can you think anything's above a billion dollars just one billion just ████ a billion dollars think about what you could do with the billion dollars you could move your mom out of that s█████ house that's what I'm thinking that's it but he's thinking other things oh my God so would he still be able to do like a different Channel or compete well let's go let's go and give to uh again there's not a lot of information a lot of it's hypothetical because it's probably a sign of NDA you can't talk but but we'll go we'll go into the context of it maybe he enjoys it so much that he'd rather do what he does now than lose a sense of identity or purpose I think that's what

1:41 it is for sure because it's like a billion dollars or be like what the ████ am I gonna do or he's just betting on himself ironically though okay so even in this sense if somebody were to quote unquote buy his whatever the ████ his YouTube channel is Comfort his company is Mr beagle the Beast likeness whatever the ████ use of his penis whatever it is yeah whatever it is he would in fact there would be some sort of negotiated term whether it be one year three year five years whatever that he still has to run that company that he makes sense that was pretty of course that happens a lot yeah so like let's say I come in I'm like I got a billion dollars and I buy Mr Beast for a billion dollars even though I buy I can't just be like all right cool now I have Mr Beast and like what do I do with the channel I start making my own content as Anthony no it doesn't work right Mr Beast is obligated for whatever our negotiated term is let's say I would negotiate like you know three years with

2:32 him you still gotta run Mr Beast entity as whatever the ████ you but you're not Your Own Boss anymore yeah but you're not your own boss exactly and I might still be like hey you're doing such a great job of it which is why I want to purchase it that you can do anything you want you just have to ████ go with 100 at this thing for the next three years right that that would be my basic analysis if I had money to throw away at a YouTube content creator that was basically his own entity you like you're not buying like a conglomerate you're not buying like Adidas or this or that you're buying like a person's identity so it's it's totally built on the shoulders of that person's creative there's no way that that deal would be formed without needing to rely on that person being a part of the establishment of that purchase for minimum three years

3:24 but that's exactly the problem that this guy has with it and is what he does not make smart decisions again I'm gonna thought the fact that he's 23 years old oh for ████ that is crazy I knew that that would make certain people feel a certain way I can tell you what if someone goes I'll buy JK for a billion dollars I'm like ████ bring out the paperwork right ████ now oh I'm gonna kick your ass bar would say bring on a wood chipper too we're chucking Talon in so I do want to ask again his thing he said he said quote like you know a billion dollars if we could own the channel and the companies and stuff like that and I'm like oh that sounds exciting or enticing but I don't know if I would want to work for my YouTube channel because he's 23 maybe I don't know

4:14 should we just have like a lack of lack in your own image like the dichotomy of that insulted all the people who will get into a more detailed shipping structure for the sake of this conversation and I'm also I'm also insulting him from a place of I know he's seven thousand times smarter than I am yeah totally ████ it that's not what you said bar originally so I'm gonna stick to that however with I will start if somebody gave me a billion dollars to buy hinges right now sure buy here just 100 absolutely ████ five years obviously and I'll suck your dick every ████ day would you wear a hat that says ████ hinges though for that much I just did it for free a billion dollars me personally kinjaz is online my song I know if you're listening to this you need to subscribe if you're listening to this here's a ████ just hat God damn it I hate that

5:05 I did that I like that that's a great picture that's probably the best picture I've seen in you point is amazing I will ████ sign it no questions asked even if there's something in there where I gotta like you know once a year get like a finger in my butt for ████ three years I will ████ do it by the way that's where the mail process it is so it's probably a good deal which is why I'll pay them a fee for it now where are you guys 100 million no no no turn I said billion okay billion dude no ████ questions asked bam sign okay dude you're just repeating what I said it's very boring you send Joe into a North Korea 's what's the least amount you it's you sell JK Joe goes to a North Korean labor camp what do you say yeah and what

5:55 happens and what's the amount and nobody will ever see Joe again yeah wait what Joe goes to a North Korean labor camp you sold JK clandestine under flight of night but you got to sell JK good for you by the way capitalist ████ yeah you capitalist piece of ████ you get to sell your business party you piece of ████ but hey good for you he's going to a North Korean labor camp and you'll never hear from them again what's the least amount of money you have to take that includes you don't have to hear from him about Japan again either so it might be a benefit to you and by the way suddenly suddenly it's Bart Malia I don't think I like that that's funny now you're talking you might even love it there you won't know yeah I think you'll love the exercise in the outdoors that they get because the fact that Joe's not in it art Malia think about it I might even sell it just

6:46 to have that happen and then I'll buy the channel back so I'm like Joe's not even here oh ████ do you think Joe would do the same thing to you probably yeah probably definitely definitely we've been trying to buy each other out for years go with cell JK for a huge amount of money and then he would buy a plane he'd buy a bunch of planes what's the ████ plane we've been trying to ████ poison each other's drinks for years okay no serious serious serious serious concept serious hypothetical what's the least amount of money you have to accept to sell yourself your your business I just asked you the question 100 million I'm the host I'm those I'm saying the least amount of money you make up the number yourself for JK JK and barbell all of you wow all of it all of it in one Ah that's weird

7:36 I'll do one at a time okay fine that's weird you didn't like that one no because my brain doesn't work like that it's not smart like Anthony's one at a time ████ oh hey good good impression you went straight to ████ autistic came Anthony holy ████ that was good um JK probably 10 million that's it why the ████ are we here ████ are we doing what the ████ are you getting paid dude 10 million oh ████ you 10 million is enough for our four percent what's that guy me me and Joe to have I don't know maybe like two to like three million each we take the rest we split almost everyone has been rocking with us it's ████ sick you give some to the

8:26 Riders huh 10 million is you and Joe take two to three million each that's upwards to 6 million the rest is tax um depending on where you live the rest of us get ten thousand dollars depending on where you live not for us you ████ number all right so you went from ten thousand dollars to Thirty Grand great job dumb ████ pieces of ████ it's like 30 Rex I got 30 racks and I boil it at 150 degree weather 30 racks that goes straight to my AC I got 10 million because of where I live set of six does that make you happy so I got eight JK is not a 100 Vegas entity you know that me it should be but because a couple hold out pieces of ████ on this side of the room boom boom

9:16 boom Joe will keep six and we'll take the two and we split it amongst the people have been riding with that did you say you'll take 16 you'll take the two and split it no me and Joe will take six that's three and three and they'll take two and we split it amongst they split four with us yeah and hopefully they remember the people who were cool to them and not pieces of ████ like like the three here hey what about you people who moved to Nevada people who were chilling cool what about barbell barbell if you say anything over 10 I'm literally leaving right now he's gonna say something over the intent I know he is that's what I'm saying he's gonna be wondering really literally the ability to inspire your co-workers right now barbell has so much merge you guys have supplements I think it would be the same thing probably like 10. wow probably ten

10:07 all right same thing I think for me it's not so much about money or maximizing the deal that's not what I'm after we're totally talking about money and maximizing oh I don't care about Max maybe maybe I'm like title of this video is maximizing the deal maybe I'm I'm with Mr Beast on this I'm not set up I'm not about maximizing the deal there there's already a lifestyle that I'm after so I know that I don't need anything more than that okay so for me if I can achieve that lifestyle forever then that makes me happy so it's not about maximizing like squeezing every lap at any point was JK or barbell did anyone ever offer to buy it uh I don't think so what's this wow we're close enough

10:57 what's this thing like we we don't own the revenue on the channel like you you sold it to somebody oh licensing yeah yeah licensing so uh there's this thing called the spotter or whatever where they buy like videos or they they're able to use the content that you have from I think like the beginning of the channel up to like five years or two years whatever and then they license it so the ads they have full control of their ads so they are able to take their margins and like let's say if this is what the YouTube ad revenue is they make their money by okay well I'll pay you what YouTube's gonna pay you and then but whatever I sell for extra I take that word much Mr Beast is also involved in spawning yeah yeah because that was the billion dollar part of that really obviously oh yeah yeah for sure oh yeah

11:48 they wanted to take over his channel and like after the ads oh I see for sure I think it's pretty cool that it shows like how much he views his own life Legacy as being what he wants it to be because if he sells it's worth more than mine he has such a big fandom that would not like that yeah they just wouldn't like it even if he gets a billion dollars they're not the kind that's gonna you know nobody is no one's fandom he's gonna like that and like imagine if he had to step outside of himself and not be who he is right so he has to like it's a good at Best Buy and like don't stand outside of the red circle and stack that now you have to stand and sign like you know something like ████ polygon or some ████ he's like that's not who I am I'm not gonna make people stack a bunch of electronics inside of a polygon that's ████ hack ████ I wanted a red

12:38 circle and so like for him he's like I want to make that call you know I want to ████ stand up say I'm Mr Beast and like I want people to ████ stack that ████ inside of a pentagon not a circle oh also it's kind of a it's a kind of a cool Power move that I like drunk Steve if it's a public story that you're being offered a billion and you publicly declined it doesn't the value of your channel go up from just that action alone yeah for sure the speculative value absolutely but I'll tell you what a billion dollars is a billion dollars you don't know if you're gonna get a second billion dollar offer in your life I think I think that's something to weigh out no matter from Snapchat Snapchat those are like unique one-of-one stories yeah but Mr Beast is a 101. I want to put out an advertisement anybody wants to buy JK

13:28 for 10 million dollars yeah put in the comments at one time Smosh was the Mr Beast at another time Hugo was the Smosh like everybody should have taken this billion dollar deal now that's what I understand you know I've never seen it work the other way every wave crashes when you get the best offer of your life I think at your Peak too yeah it's reasonable to take it the biggest ████ you Surfer Dudes I'm too hippy to care sold to Disney when I was there I was there they sold the Disney for a billion and that's smart and ████ you out but you know what those cats look like sellout blah blah blah blah blah to their friend group who gives up no one remembers billion dollars is so much money like

14:20 people can Thrive off of like two hundred thousand a hundred thousand dollars a year like have a stress-free lifestyle my pillows she's like because I have a stress for your life I'm like Nick you know what Nick you would say people could Thrive off like 15 30 million dollars I'm like yeah I know where the pillow budget is [Music]

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