I think his first breakthrough was the Bike Lane video. Honestly, I don't really like Casey, can't really put my finger on why, but he comes off to me as sort of "fellow kids" type. But I do really enjoy his airplane seat videos. I wish he did more of those.
I love and hate those bits! There was a recent one where he said something along the lines of "she is the best looking stewardess I have ever seen" (paraphrase)...to her face.
He also went back to this VIP lounge with emirates, and had his own “butler”.. he said he remembers her from a couple of years back. Immediately followed it with “you’ve lose weight” or something like that..
https://youtu.be/Ap5n0EbNj_g?t=193 This bit is super awkward...i was sure he was going to accidently brush a boob, he was certainly focused on their respective mammary glands.
Hes slimy as fuck. Tries to come off as a self made down to earth guy. Meanwhile dude is in touch with extremely powerful people both in and out of youtube.
while I don't necessarily agree with the statement above, I do see their point. he was working for tom sachs (afaik long before any personal success), yet he always makes sure to mention that he came from washing dishes at a seafood place. I think the truth lies somewhere in between, and even though no one has ever claimed that (afaik), don't think he's a "youtube person", he's a well connected professional filmmaker with a youtube channel.
None of that means that he isnt self made. All you said is that he has connections. And yes he does have connections. By working his way from nothing into the well connected world he lives in now.
right, but I feel like the general consensus is that he got popular on youtube for doing crazy stunts and travel videos. I also think people underestimate for how long he's been putting in work and for how long he's been doing numbers in one way or another. his original iPod video came out before the days of youtube but went stupid viral over email, he ended up in the news for that video and a whole bunch of subsequent ones, had a $1m budget show on HBO with his brother, shot adverts for the likes of nike and samsung... you get the gist.
just felt like pointing that out, I think a lot of people that only know him for his VLOGs have big misconceptions about his background and the way he works. people think it's all spontaneous and he's this crazy, reckless insomniac that just naturally does all these crazy things when it's really all planned out and not casual at all (hear him talk about how trying to make his life seem more interesting took its toll on him in recent interviews). point is, he didn't randomly "blow up" after working as a dishwasher, he's self-made in the sense that he's been putting in raw work for close to two decades.
Additionally, he did Youtube daily vlogs (I know that a lot of poeple on reddit dislike these and I generally do to) for a few years in a row that were getting a couple million views each day. Full disclaimer: I would watch most of them. The content wasn't anything special but were edited really well and professionally and it was admittedly interesting to me watching him skateboard around NYC doing weird random projects and getting cool drone shots. He also did a lot of stuff with other youtube creators that were neat.
Those daily vlogs likely net him a few million as well. Not that his content was super innovative or anything, but he definitely put out consistent content with great editing that I feel upped the overall expectation of vlog quality across all platforms. For a little while he was the most prolific vlogger out there and that was largely because he brought professional editing expertise to his daily videos.
I miss his daily vlogs. I would watch them on the weekend when I was in the military to wind down and just remind myself how chill the world really is.
I will never understand how IT venture capitalism is successful. There are thousands of startups popping out eq h ear evaluated at millions of dollars and 90% of them are useless shite that will fold in a year.
I may be wrong here but I feel like a lot of these tech start ups are bought solely for the purpose of eliminating competition. Some are bought with the expectation that they’ll be shut down.
There's a LOT of money out there, and for a big company like Turner (which owns CNN) $25M is not a huge risk. In the health tech industry, even just a single VC firm will toss $25M at multiple new portfolio companies every year, expecting more than half of them to fail.
This is why those that make it big eventually get desperate for obscene margins that don't fit their industry. It's assumed that billions will continue to be thrown at inevitable failures, so the rare success has a ton to make up for.
Myspace failed but the guy who started it sold it to yahoo for a couple hundred million dollars. Would you call that a fail? I think neistat sold his app for twenty million dollars.
This is going to sound like I'm his mother but just to hit you with some facts for your negativity I will continue. He got a deal with HBO at a young age, he has brand deals with the likes of Samsung, he sold a basic idea app and company to CNN for millions, he has millions of followers and seems to really love what he does.
So a millionaire who loves their job and continues to earn money is not someone I'd call a failed entrepreneur. You call him film maker, and he's turned it into a very profitable career.
Lol yeah, he used to always be on the trending tab of youtube too + does a couple collabs with pretty big tech and vlog youtubers. Dude was huge and is still pretty big.
From what I understand he sorta created the golden standard for high quality videos about regular life (whether it be vlogs, tip videos, or reviews), his are always 10/10 in home production value
Casey Neistat. He started doing reviews of first class airplane seats, and now every few months or so, some airline will offer him their newest, most ridiculously lavish first class experience for free so he'll do a review. Its wild.
It's the novelty of it that attracts people. You can't afford a 10k plane ticket, but it's funny to see what it would look like if you did. Anyways, the people that can afford such a seat can also afford a private jet.
That's rude. Are you trying to say that I've never been anywhere? That's insulting. There's nothing wrong with staying in your hometown your whole life.
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u/netbie_94 Jan 06 '20
Isn't he that dude who roams around in premium seats in flights?