HIBT Lab! MKBHD: Marques Brownlee

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

“Right now I have approximately 70-ish subscribers,” declared a teenage Marques Brownlee at the beginning of his 100th YouTube video back in 2009. Marques recorded his first of many product reviews earlier that year, after buying his first laptop. Quite simply, he wanted others to have more information about this computer than he did when he bought it.

Since then, Marques has grown his channel, MKBHD, into a full-fledged business with more than 16 million subscribers and over 3 billion total views. He’s expanded beyond reviews too, posting interviews with well-known public figures like Kobe Bryant, Bill Gates and Elon Musk.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Marques reflects on his journey as a content creator and how he turned a love of tech into a lucrative and sustainable business. Plus, he shares his philosophy for building a strong team – which interestingly enough, is inspired by an octopus...

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0:00.0	What is actually going on with the economy nowadays?
0:04.4	The price of gas, inflation?
0:06.5	Are we in a recession?
0:08.2	I'm Jeff Quo, co-host of NPR's Planet Money.
0:11.2	Come along with our super team of econ experts
0:14.1	as we delve into the stories that show you
0:16.2	how the world really works.
0:18.6	That's Planet Money from NPR.
0:24.8	Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab.
0:27.1	I'm Guy Razz.
0:28.4	So for those of you listening to the lab for the first time,
0:31.3	this is the place where we get to talk to entrepreneurs
0:34.8	with big, disruptive ideas that could maybe make our world
0:38.8	a better place.
0:39.6	We also talk to return guests who've been on the show
0:42.6	to hear about the things they've been up to since they
0:44.7	were last on.
0:46.0	And also, people who are making a name for themselves
0:48.8	in the creator economy.
0:50.8	And my guest today is almost like the anti-youtuber.
0:54.3	He's soft-spoken.
0:55.5	He's self-effacing.
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