MrBeast enters billionaire club with $1 billion net worth, fans congratulate him

YouTuber MrBeast has joined the billionaire club with a net worth of $1 billion, according to a report. The YouTuber with the most views in the world was born James Stephen Donaldson in 1998. 

He grew up in Greenville, North Carolina. According to a report, his mom raised him as a single parent after she divorced her husband. MrBeast is tight-lipped about his personal life and keeps it out of the limelight.

The report states he was an “extremely quiet child" growing up”. However, he was also obsessed with YouTube as a kid. Finally, he started his YouTube journey by posting his first video under the username MrBeast6000.

In his initial videos, he was mostly off-camera. He once enrolled at East Carolina University but dropped out soon after to pursue his career as a YouTuber.

In the early days, he experimented with various kinds of videos. However, he got his first big break in 2017, when he counted from zero to 100,000 in a video.

The clip received over one million subscribers. Over time, he started doing big-budget stunts. He also made videos of himself tipping thousands of dollars.

Though already popular in India, his popularity peaked among Indian audiences after his online competition with T-Series, during which he took over the company’s YouTube channel to become the most subscribed-to YouTube channel.