MrBeast, future CEO of Twitter? The ultra-popular YouTuber thinks about it a lot.
In December, YouTube phenomenon Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast, tweeted that he would be thrilled to be the platform’s next CEO. Twitter owner Elon Musk then launched a poll asking users if they should leave their seat or not. The billionaire then explained that he would leave her as soon as he found “someone crazy enough to accept this job.”
MrBeast future CEO of Twitter?
Elon Musk has yet to find that famous replacement, but MrBeast seems to be taking the idea of running Twitter very seriously someday. He is currently the owner of the YouTube channel with the most subscribers to date, over 127 million. He recently spoke with podcaster Lex Friedman, specifically discussing his ambition to become the CEO of Twitter. When he first tweeted about the idea, Elon Musk responded that “it’s not entirely out of the question.”In the podcast, when asked by Lex Friedman what he thinks about the current situation on Twitter after the takeover by Elon Musk, he remarks: “I think he should make me the CEO. As I tweeted.
Lex Friedman also offered himself for the position. “Let me do some work on Twitter. No salary. Thoroughly. Focus on beautiful engineering and growing love in the world,” he tweeted in December. Elon Musk responded that the condition for joining Twitter was to invest his life savings and change his fate, because the company was not far from bankruptcy. Lex Friedman said he was ready and said he was raising the bar with relative confidence.
Twitter could get 1 billion active users a year. Key content: videos and podcasts. Tasks:
1. Make a great video and audio player
2. Attract creators through rev-share
Twitter is already the comments section of the internet. It should now post content that drives the convoy.
— Lex Friedman (@lexfridman) December 23, 2022
As for MrBeast, he is no less enthusiastic. When Lex Friedman asks him what his first step as the platform’s new CEO will be, he laughs, “I can’t spoil the surprise,”adding, “But first I have to be hired.”
The ultra-popular Youtubeur thinks a lot about it
The day after his initial tweet, and following Elon Musk’s response, he announced on Twitter that his “first challenge”would be to make the platform a place where “creators want to post videos.”Elon Musk seems to have the same dream. He is willing to pay creators better than YouTube.
My first task is to make sure creators really want to post videos on Twitter, not just link to other platforms pic.twitter.com/PR6pEnpv18
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) December 23, 2022
MrBeast, on the other hand, is clearly not convinced by Elon Musk’s dreams of alienating the creators of YouTube and other competitors. “It will be difficult to increase compensation,” he explained, adding that he would be very surprised if Elon Musk succeeds. His fears are justified as Twitter faced a massive exodus of advertisers during its takeover by the billionaire.
The current conditions are very difficult, layoffs continue, employee benefits are canceled, offices are vacated for non-payment of rent, even the toilets in the offices do not work properly.
On Lex Friedman’s podcast, MrBeast explained that he will always be closer to TikTok than YouTube because people won’t watch hour-long videos on Twitter. Even 15 minutes will be difficult in terms of user retention.
In any case, the YouTuber shared his joy to see Twitter moving forward in terms of development and making vital and important changes to topics that take a long time to implement, but he also recalled that it was a hit or miss approach. And things can really go wrong. To be continued!