MrBeast is opening up about his private funds.
The YouTube and web creator — actual title Jimmy Donaldson — earned an estimated $85 million within the yr to June 2025, in line with Forbes, whereas Fortune reviews that his firm, Beast Industries, is value $5 billion.
Regardless of his enterprise success, nonetheless, Donaldson, 27, not too long ago informed the Wall Avenue Journal that he isn’t personally as wealthy as folks assume.
“It’s humorous speaking about my private funds as a result of nobody ever believes something I say, as a result of they’re like, ‘You’re a billionaire,’” Donaldson informed the outlet in a video interview. “I’m like, that’s web value.”
He continued, “I really… I’ve adverse cash proper now. I’m borrowing cash. That’s how little cash I’ve. Technically, everybody watching this video has extra money than me of their checking account when you subtract the fairness worth of my firm, which doesn’t purchase me McDonald’s within the morning, or no matter.”
Donaldson has beforehand stated that he retains lower than $1 million in his private checking account, and is due to this fact a billionaire “on paper” solely.
“I simply don’t actually consider it. I get up, I simply work. I’m simply so busy working. I don’t actually take into consideration my private checking account, if that is smart,” he informed the WSJ. “I’m simply laser-focused on making the best movies doable and constructing the enterprise as large as doable.”
Within the interview, Donaldson additionally revealed his greatest private splurge so he might see his now-fiancée Thea Booysen, 28, whereas she was finding out within the U.Ok.
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“I don’t stay close to a serious airport. I’ve to drive two hours to an airport to then take a layover to take a layover to get to locations,” he defined. “One time, I used to be like, screw it, I’m simply gonna hire a personal jet and fly to her. As a result of I actually wish to see her, but when I don’t hire a PJ, I actually simply can’t make it work.”
The eight-hour flight value the YouTuber $150,000.
“I felt so unhealthy, however I simply actually wished to see my fiancée,” he stated.
Donaldson beforehand opened up about his private wealth in a June 2025 X publish, revealing that he was borrowing cash from his mother to pay for his wedding ceremony.
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“I personally have little or no cash as a result of I reinvest all the pieces (I feel this yr we’ll spend round 1 / 4 of a billion on content material),” the Beast Video games creator and host wrote. “Paradoxically I’m really borrowing $ from my mother to pay for my upcoming wedding ceremony lol.”
He added, “However certain, on paper the companies I personal are value quite a bit.”
In February 2024, Donaldson informed Time that he earns between $600 million to $700 million a yr, however he reinvests a lot of his earnings in new content material.
“Every video does a pair million in advert income, a pair million in model offers,” he stated. “I’ve reinvested all the pieces to the purpose of — you could possibly declare — stupidity, simply believing that we’d succeed. And it’s labored out.”
