
He went from construction shifts and grocery deliveries to venture capital, startup operations and a $25 million tax company. The useful part of Andrew Rea’s story is how often the unglamorous work became the opportunity.

Andrew Rea is the New York filmmaker turned YouTube cook behind Binging with Babish, the channel that recreates dishes from movies and TV. What began as a one-man bit in a Queens apartment is now Babish Culinary Universe: a network of shows, three cookbooks, a branded cookware line, and roughly ten million subscribers who recognize him by his hands and his voice before his face.