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Inside MrBeast's corporate structure

2024/6/12

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主持人：对MrBeast近期视频中获得由右翼亿万富翁查尔斯·科赫创立的非营利组织的资金支持表示关注，并引出对MrBeast企业结构和慈善行为的讨论。 Ryan Broderick：详细介绍了MrBeast的成功模式，即通过高成本的视频制作和慈善活动吸引流量，从而获得YouTube广告收入和赞助。他分析了MrBeast慈善事业中存在的争议，指出其表演性和对社会问题的简化处理，以及慈善机构对媒体回应的有限性，导致对其运作方式的调查困难。他还探讨了MrBeast慈善组织的财务状况，指出其高额的运营成本，以及MrBeast本人对资金使用缺乏透明度，甚至在社交媒体上直接向粉丝募集资金，引发了人们对其资金使用目的的担忧。此外，他还分析了MrBeast的商业模式与其编辑内容之间可能存在的界限模糊，以及其行为可能与避税有关。最后，他总结道，MrBeast的行为体现了YouTube算法的本质，以及内容创作经济中对内容的过度商业化。 Ryan Broderick：详细分析了MrBeast的企业结构和商业模式，指出其多元化的商业版图，包括餐饮、糖果和房地产等。他认为MrBeast的行为体现了YouTube算法的本质，以及内容创作经济中对内容的过度商业化，并指出其行为缺乏真实性。他还探讨了MrBeast粉丝群体的特点，以及其对负面评价的态度。最后，他强调了MrBeast的影响力巨大，需要对其行为进行更深入的审查。

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Ryan Broderick discusses Mr. Beast's rise to fame, his unique content strategy, and the controversies surrounding his philanthropic efforts.

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A nonprofit founded by right-wing billionaire Charles Koch was a "key contributor" to a recent video produced by the popular content creator MrBeast. The video, titled "We Schooled Hundreds of Teachers)," was uploaded on April 30th to "Beast Philanthropy," a second channel MrBeast uses to showcase charity work. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, lists the organization Stand Together as one of the main financial sponsors. Stand Together was founded by Koch in 2003 as The Seminar Network and it describes itself as a "philanthropic community" dedicated to tackling the "country’s biggest problems," which range from education initiatives to what it calls "freedom-minded solutions." But we wanted to focus on how MrBeast’s corporate structure operates, so Fast Company contributing writer Ryan Broderick joined us to chat about it.

Then, Fast Company associate editor David Salazar had a conversation with Vault founder David Greenstein and musician James Blake, who was the first artist on Vault and has been vocal about its potential as a new way for fans to engage with their favorite artists. They chatted about experimenting with new ways to monetize music.