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!

It got scary. We had to move into a higher security building and I didn't know what to do. That's when it got dark. The godfather of YouTube, the king of vlogging, one of the most prolific creators in history. Throughout your story that's this objectively delusional persistence towards a goal. The word I've been using is patience. Because patience is so unattractive. And I think you need to remove this idea of success being this romantic, beautiful thing. It's not.

when I started my daily vlog, making a video a day 800 days in a row. It took eight years to go from zero to a couple hundred thousand subscribers, failing year in and year out, and I was$200,000 in debt. Awful. You're a loser. But patience will smash into opportunity and then it went to ten million subscribers in like 18 months. So in life you can get whatever you want, but are you willing to do that for twenty years? If you're not, don't Father man. You sold the company, you've built the channels, you've made a huge name for yourself. At that point That's when it got hard. And like this idea that you have to win to be happy could not be further from the truth. I had by Every definition achieves success. But I wasn't running the marathon because I wanted to get across the finish line. I was running it because I love the running. And the fame was

Insane. I made a move to LA and I didn't know what to do. Until now. Is this a new Casey? What can we expect?

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