CEO Diaries: The Mistake That Nearly Derailed MrBeast’s Entire Empire

Today's moment episode is with Mr Beast, and he has one of the most incredible teams in the world. But I guess the question is How? The reality of running a small business is that switching off is never really an option. Even when you try, the ideas, the excitement, and all the responsibility is always there. And because you're always switched on, it's only fair that your hiring partner should be too. LinkedIn Jobs, who are the sponsor of this moment's episode, has been that hiring partner for me and for years, because it's always working away in the background. My team can post our jobs for free, share them with our networks, and reach top talent all in the same place. So let's get into today's conversation. Great people just love working with great people. They do. And there's something about being around great people that

some kind of animal out of you that just makes you want to Do more and push more and believe things aren't possible and I don't know. When you put me around a bunch of other successful entrepreneurs, I just turn into a different human than if you put me around I don't know a bunch of

People who are just running small businesses and don't really care and don't really have much ambition. I'm like two completely different humans. And you see that same thing in full effect. You put a bunch of A players around more A players, they just build off of each other. But you've like put two or three C players amongst a bunch of great people and they'll start pulling'em down, they'll start making'em not want to work as much, make work not as fun. And so everyone knows get rid of the C players, right? Obviously, get rid of people who aren't all in, blah, blah, blah. It's the ones that are like They're not an A player, but they're not a C player. So it's kinda hard because you still feed off the energy. And if you get enough of them, it just drags the overall culture down. So those are like

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