Jimmy Donaldson, known globally as MrBeast, is the most-subscribed individual on YouTube with 487+ million subscribers. At 27, he runs Beast Industries, a $5 billion media and consumer goods conglomerate, produces Amazon Prime Video's most-watched unscripted series Beast Games, and has donated tens of millions through initiatives like Team Trees and Team Seas. He reinvests virtually all revenue back into his productions, calling YouTube his true obsession.
Mike Boyd is a Scottish YouTube creator behind the channel 'Learn Quick', where he documents learning new skills - from kickflips to lockpicking - in remarkably compressed timeframes. With 2.7+ million subscribers and a philosophy of learning in public, he turned a bored thesis-writer's side project into a sustainable media business, all while making the messy, fumbling process of skill acquisition oddly compelling to watch.
Gregg Spiridellis is an American media and technology entrepreneur who co-founded JibJab with his brother Evan in a Brooklyn garage in 1999, pioneering viral internet video before it was called that. He followed it up with StoryBots, the 11x Emmy Award-winning educational children's franchise acquired by Netflix in 2019. Now back with Spiridellis Bros. Studios, an AI-powered animation company backed by Ashton Kutcher, Tim Ferriss, and Google's AI Futures Fund, he is betting that generative AI is the biggest creative wave yet.