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ft @RomanAtwood @FaZeApex

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Roman Atwood reveals he told his teachers in junior high he was going to make videos for a living and explains what actually happened after school ended

"In junior high, I just – even in junior high, I was telling all my teachers, I don't care about this. I don't care if I get an F because I'm going to make videos for a living. And back then, that was so ridiculous."

"YouTube came out in 2006. I graduated in 2001. You're saying that in junior high. To make videos wasn't a thing. But it was like I was watching BMX videos. I was watching this stuff. I was like, that's what I'm going to do. And never once in my life considered it made me money. It's just what I wanted to do."

"I remember my teacher saying, well, how are you going to make money doing that? I just remember I never even thought of that. I never even thought once about that. So once school was over, it was like, okay, now's your chance. Make your videos. You're not going to college. You've got nothing else to go make your videos. And I was like, yeah, I can't do that. So I went full-time in that rope factory for nine years."

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ft @TheSharkDaymond

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Daymond John explains why margin can make you rich but also wipe you out and warns what really caused the 2008 financial crisis

"That same whatever financial institution will let you go on margin. They will let you pull out 50 right. The 10 million dollars that is profitable. That's called margin. You could take that margin and go buy more Apple and go buy more Tesla and that's the same thing with real estate. When you pull that margin out you're now paying interest at six seven eight percent. You're not paying taxes at 40%."

"You can do that if you have $1,000 in a bank. You go to $2,000. Now you have $1,000 on margin. However, margin is very dangerous because a lot of people take margin and buy the wrong things with it."

"Margin calls, gentlemen. When that margin goes down, wait a minute, I don't have any money. Margin can be dangerous. That's called over-leveraging and that's what put us in a really big bind in 08."

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ft @OMGitsAliA

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Ali-A explains how he tracked his rivals by hand every single day to become the biggest Call of Duty channel in the world

"I was still quite small relatively to like you had xJaws you had WhiteBoy7thSt you had like Woody's Gamertag all these massive channels and the rate at which they were growing was so vast compared to me that like I was never going to be near them"

"There were no stat based websites at the time so I'd go on their channel write down how many subscribers they have and write it down every single day and track how many subs they were getting each day and compare it to my own"

"It ended up being just me and T-Martin like the biggest COD channels and then I overtook T-Martin and I'm like well I've got no one to beat now like I'm suddenly the biggest COD channel in the world"

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ft @FaZeApex @OMGitsAliA

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Ali-A explains how he built a team to do direct venture investments and breaks down exactly how the math works on a seed round deal

"Recently started doing like more like venture fund, like direct investments into different companies where companies either come to me and are like, we want some money for like equity within what we're working on. These are like super high risk like things by the way, like worth noting."

"Me and the financial team I've been working with for so many years, I've like put this mini team together to basically just do these direct investments more recently, which I find really fun, where you're kind of investing into the future."

"So it's like, for example, company comes along, could be seed round investments, they valued at like 10 million dollars, you put half a million dollars in, you'll get five percent. You basically own part of that company. And assuming they don't do any more rounds of investments and you keep that five percent equity, if they then exited and sold at like 100 million dollars, you 10x that money. Your half a million dollars is suddenly five million dollars. That's the theory of it."

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ft @OMGitsAliA

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Ali-A reveals how much he was making per month at the peak of his Pokemon Go YouTube grind and it's insane

"Pokemon Go was like maybe around 80 million views a month as well"

"It was probably like six figures a month back then. It was really good. But it fell off really quickly. It was like this peak and it was like oh my gosh there's a lot of money, suddenly all just fell apart"

"I've always been quite conscious of like the money I make won't last forever as well. Even to this day I'm like what if it all just instantly stopped, can I live off the money I have now and be happy for the rest of my life"

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ft @OMGitsAliA

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Ali-A reveals the anxiety and heart palpitations he was hiding while building his YouTube channel alone and says it was far more unhealthy than he realised

"I remember vividly like sat in a restaurant with my brother and Claire, my girlfriend at the time. And I was just in a constant state of like anxiety. And like I'd have like heart palpitations, but like it was normal, but it shouldn't be normal."

"And it was just like all I was thinking about was like, what videos am I doing? When am I going to make this video? Like what's the thumbnail going to be? What's the ideas going to be? And all that pressure was on my shoulders when I was doing it all myself."

"And looking back I'm like god that was so unhealthy. Whereas now I can like shut my mind off. It's so important to shut your mind off from work outside of those work hours, almost just to like de-stress, decompress."

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ft @OMGitsAliA

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Ali-A explains why he never tried to become a top tier pro player and the surprisingly simple reason it would have made no difference

"I never sat at like anywhere near the pro level of a very top tier that would make me like a standout person which is why I didn't stream like I'd have really bad games and really good games like people like Ninja having like consistent really really strong games."

"So my time and energy my idea is like how much time would it take me to make me that good and would it actually have any output any actual effect on my content and the answer is like it would be a negligible effect on my content if I was a lot better at the game so there's no point in me."

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ft @FaZeApex @FazeAdapt

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FaZe Adapt explains how he went from being the dumbest kid in the FaZe house to the one everyone looks up to and reveals the mindset that kept him going through everything

"When I moved into the FaZe house almost a decade ago I was 17 and like I was the youngest and the dumbest. With the least real-life experience. I didn't really know what to do outside of trickshotting and making YouTube videos. Any OG fans know that you always got memes for being like the quote-unquote dumb little brother."

FaZe Apex: "Now you're like the knowledgeable unk."

FaZe Adapt: "It's crazy. Isn't that hilarious? It's such a funny full-circle moment. That's why I look back on all the horrible and all the bad. I just knew that if I did it, I would regret it. I never stopped trying. I kept trying in every way with whatever it was. If you never quit, it's really hard to lose. If you don't stop trying, it's really hard to lose."

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ft @RomanAtwood @FazeRug

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Faze Rug explains why a 10 out of 10 score on YouTube is actually the worst thing a creator can see

"10 out of 10 is the worst thing you could see as a YouTuber."

Roman Atwood: "But sometimes I'm so sorry to cut you off, 10 out of 10 on YouTube guys is not good, it's bad."

"It breaks him. When you upload a video on YouTube as a creator you have a one through ten. One out of ten means banger dude, you just beat your last 10 videos. Ten out of ten means it's the worst video in the last ten."

Roman Atwood: "I want to explain that to the viewer because when I say 10 out of 10 that sounds great."

"Yeah exactly. It's the worst feeling. I think it's the most toxic system YouTube has ever implemented and I wish it would go away."

Roman Atwood: "I think that if you can mentally manage it it's a great system but when I'm uploading it a 10 out of 10 regardless if it matters it crushes me dude. Let me give you some advice on that."

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Roman Atwood reveals the unexpected reason social media is the only thing that keeps him motivated to get things done

"It's only because of social media that I've gotten anything done. Actually. A thousand percent."

"Because I look at myself online all the time and I'm like, oh my gosh. And then I read comments and then... I think about if I wasn't online or if there was no internet, I wouldn't have anything ever done."

"It's because I'm always on camera and I want to look a certain way and feel a certain way."