The Failure of Meet Kevin | Millionaire to ZERO - YOUTUBE BANKRUPT.

hey everyone me Kevin here in this video

we're going to talk about the complete

and utter failure of the

multi-millionaire YouTuber me

Kevin that's me in this video I'm just

going to have a conversation with

hopefully all of you who are interested

in failure and it's really interesting

how Society works because especially

today in uh the social media world that

we're in it's very very common when

someone fails or has a failure in their

career uh for other people to uh kind of

regularly bring that up and keep kicking

you until you die uh that's actually a

life though and so what I wanted to do

is think back to some of the failures of

uh my entrepreneurial career for example

when I first became a real estate agent

it took me 11 months to close my first

deal that was very difficult because at

the time I felt like I was going from uh

floundering at my uh job working at Red

Robin on the expeditor line/ host line

uh to uh to to not being able to do more

and it was very frustrating because uh

even though I felt like I knew I would

be a fantastic server and I wanted to be

a server and I knew I could work hard as

a server the powers that be kind of kept

their foot uh or or on my on my neck so

to speak right so and I think that's a

symbol of how many of us feel in a

terrible economy we work harder and we

want to get ahead we want to do more and

give more heck we've been giving more

and we've been doing more but we just

feel like we're not getting ahead and

it's frustrating

because we feel like the universe is

purposefully trying to align things in a

way to say nope you're not allowed to

get ahead and then then you get

frustrated sort of like oh must be the

manager must be someone in the the

server staff who doesn't want me to be a

server because uh they're worried about

getting more tables themselves oh must

be corporate oh must be you know some

policy or whatever and it's really

common when uh we're we're in sort of a

cycle I always think of things Cycles

we're in sort of a low cycle to point

the finger and say that's it they're the

reason there's failure that was

basically how I always felt uh as uh as

a child whether it was uh going from uh

you know uh playing video games like

RuneScape and wanting to be a form mod

to uh not being able to become a form

mod for jagx but being able to be a for

mod and working with a great community

at this website called run HQ back then

where uh I felt fortunate to be able to

contribute Quest guides or uh help form

moderate and build out a community uh

that was really enjoyable I really love

that uh and uh and I'm a big fan of of

always working hard but it's really

interesting because sometimes the

universe just makes it feel like you

know what you're not going to be a

server you are not going to be a form

mod you are not going to go down in that

direction whatever direction that is

it's happened many many times for

example uh back in uh 2017 is I created

this construction company called meet

and done which was really a tool for me

as a real estate agent to uh build out

my real estate agent business because

here are some pictures I was able to go

I just just Google meet Kevin real

estate agent this is my Prius uh from

back in the day see this is probably I

don't know 12 years old now or whatever

uh but anyway it was really common back

in the day to uh to have to help your

clients and I'm sure it is still today

although today's real estate market is

pretty tough to have to help your

clients uh basically renovate their home

in order for them to sell it and so I

thought okay well the

biggest hard like the biggest hardship I

have in coordinating repairs is

basically finding somebody to do the

first 10% of the work in the last 10% of

the work it's like that fill-in handy

person who's going to you know take off

the doorknob at the beginning and at the

end tight like straighten all the screws

for you uh so here's my real estate

cycle that I had uh uh on my wall

everything's a cycle uh the no pressure

agent the trademark you know whatever uh

look at this I did I did little pizza

box Flyers uh and it was really funny is

I I I found that um these uh these these

challenges that I faced in throughout my

entire life there was there was always

this feeling of I we can solve this and

then sometimes the realization that

you're not meant to solve it and I

thought that was something interesting I

wanted to have a discussion about so how

does this relate to Business and

Entrepreneurship well here's

how so as someone who always wants to

improve and provide more when we created

this construction company in 2017 we did

a great job providing work for ourselves

in other words rentals or renov that we

were entirely coordinating they were the

highest quality they were on budget or

close to budget to where they were still

extremely profitable and reasonable uh

and they were great jobs they it was a

fantastic business to have the downside

was when I decided oh I'm going to

expand into doing remodels on behalf of

other people where somebody else is like

oh I want the crown molding to be this

style and then you go install the crown

molding and they're like oh uh when I

said this style I didn't mean a flat

piece of of contemporary molding I meant

this ornate style of molding can you go

back and redo all of that work because I

said this with my hands and you didn't

clarify and you're the boss so therefore

you're going to pay it and it's really

funny because to me I look back and go

man every time in in sort of history or

the history of Entrepreneurship I

realized when when I failed at trying to

solve something that I really really was

passionate about

solving I ended up being able to find a

better path ended up in a better place

for example when I didn't become a

server I became a real estate agent

which set off the entire path of not

just helping people buy and remodel

homes buy wedge deals but teaching about

people teaching people about wedge deals

at uh uh at coffee shops I would get

clients because they would see me at a

coffee shop almost every day teaching

people about how to buy red wedge deals

and build your net worth because what's

actually funny is even though I wasn't a

financial adviser then you're allowed to

give real estate advice as a real estate

agent and I became a real estate broker

as well not that that makes any

practical difference but anyway uh

people would say you know what I've

watched you give advice at this coffee

shop every Sunday for the last 20 weeks

I need to sell a house you seem like the

guy who knows what he's doing doing can

I work with you and it's really

interesting when when that snowball

starts getting built how that snowball

can expand over time but that snowball

started because I failed at becoming a

server becoming a server failed because

or or or or not becoming a server and

failing at becoming a server working in

the restaurant business uh didn't work

out but I came to work there because of

other failures for example I didn't

become a cop uh I stopped being a police

explorer I moved to California and uh uh

you know moved in with Lauren and and

Lauren's parents back uh when I was in

high school when I was 16 years old and

that was sort of a really scary reset

for me as a 16-year-old because I was

leaving my high school I was leaving the

friends that I had in Florida I was

leaving everything that I knew that I

had in Florida from again being a police

explorer the job I had in Florida the

friends I had in Florida the school I

had in Florida the debate team I had in

Florida I was leaving everything to

reset out to

California and so it's it's so

interesting because I think of you know

having left Florida is kind of like a ah

did I fail Florida but California ended

up being so much better and then did I

fail in the video game world but then

that got me into working at Jamba Juice

which did I fail at getting a green hat

at Jamba Juice that was always the thing

if you had the orange hat you were sort

of you know the shift worker and then

you the green hat you're the shift

manager uh which I never became the

shift manager which led me to go to Red

Robin which that failure of not becoming

a server led me to become a real estate

agent which the failures within being a

real estate agent of like I can solve

that and then o nope that's not meant to

be solved led me to go to YouTube which

what's interesting about YouTube is

YouTube and social media are really just

a public example of your own failures

right uh the the internet doesn't forget

as people say uh and it's really popular

to kick on people for example here's

somebody that I thought was my friend uh

Tom Nash who says quote this man says

quote fire Elon well this is something

that a is not true I think that uh Elon

should remain at Tesla absolutely I

think you need somebody remember how

even when Steve Jobs was at apple and a

lot of people don't like apple they're

like oh Apple's woke and this St

whatever it's like boy C Apple fine what

whatever but the point is even when you

had kind of like the the Loose Canon

Steve Jobs you had that cooling force of

like that behind the SE scenes was the

engineer or Tim Cook to kind of like do

the pr stuff like all I'm saying is you

need somebody in conjunction with Elon

to do that like I think elon's trying to

do all of it he is a brilliant person we

need Elon like I think that's what

people forget right like I love Elon I

think elon's an inspiration I and no

Elon should not be fired that's not what

said when he said he sto doing the the

the business uh PR role because he's not

the best at the PR department I think we

could do better uh and I think many I

think any of us would agree as long-term

shareholders or not I think we can agree

yeah they could do a little better with

PR okay they they got Twitter unlock but

we've got more people to sell cars to

than just Twitter okay so but anyway so

but this is normal right this is like

you know for example let's let's talk

about it the the whole uh FTX disaster

like that is obviously a failure within

my YouTube career I warned about stable

coins uh as far back as 2011 and I was

completely blind to the risks that a

crypt brokerage or many crypto

brokerages could go bankrupt uh I

invested in companies like blockfi uh

Robin Hood I lost a lot of money on

those Investments I put my money where

my mouth was and I thought I was

protected by staying away from stable

coins but I didn't realize when stable

coins collapsed which I got a lot of

hate for saying stable coins would

collapse and that was another failure is

that was a PR failure of mine this PR

failure of mine is like hey I I think

stable coins are dangerous we should be

careful everybody gets mad unsub dislike

I hate you you're a shill for the suits

or whatever I'm like okay and uh and

then you know teral Luna collapses but

it takes down all the brokerages too and

I'm like well I I thought I saw

this coming with the stable coins I

definitely did not see that coming with

the brokerages is all going down uh you

know Robin Hood losing a lot of value or

uh you know FTX is brutal collapse

Celsius whatever uh and and you know you

could do whatever you want to try to

mitigate that but that doesn't stop

people on the internet from be well

you're the loser who made you know

$120,000 uh sponsor being sponsored by

FTX and it's like well damn I wish I

never got paid that obviously in

hindsight because everybody was

defrauded who was involved in it and so

you know you're still always going to

get people like you're are scammed like

um well I guess I'm a mega scam because

I've had a lot of failures I you know

I'm a scam because I didn't become a

server I was a scam when I was a video

game player I was a scam as a police

explorer I was a scam when uh you know I

finished my jobs as a licensed

contractor for real estate clients and

I'm like I ain't doing that anymore

we're shutting that business down we're

just going to go back to just doing real

estate sales because we're doing that

really well that's making a lot of money

and that's a money losing business so

let's shut that down that meet and D

business which I really liked uh meet

and D you

know I've just realized being a

contractor for somebody else the best

way to do that in case you're ever

interested in my opinion is you have to

charge really high premiums and then you

could be a briefcase contractor where

you just like coordinate other people

and subcontract other people but if

you're going to have your guys do the

whole job you better charge a freaking

premium as well like it is it is so hard

because all of those mistakes you have

to be able to absorb those like hey man

you know like I'll give you another

example we had um Hardwood flooring

downstairs in a property carpet on the

stairs and carpet upstairs and so we bid

replace flooring uh carpet will be 8B

pad this grade this color and we be

installed by this date like I had that

all scripted out right and then I'm like

floor will be exactly this box will have

exactly this type of baseboard this is

the one you want right everything

scripted out you know and I'm like no

mistakes here it's literally exactly

scripted out on the floor it's exactly

scripted out what we're going to do with

with the carpet so we install everything

and the client's

like what is this and I'm like well it's

like exactly what we put in the

paperwork he's like I wanted hardwood

floor on the stairs and I'm like no bro

there was carpet on the stairs and we

put carpet on the stairs it's all right

here and there was hardw downstairs and

we did that well I wanted to upgrade and

and and do flooring on the stairs I'm

like bro that's like the most expensive

part man don't do that to me he's like I

want hardwood on the floor I'm like f

it's like all right here's your hardwood

on the floor and I'm like I'm done with

this it's very difficult now some of

that obviously is like you can you could

try to blame everybody else but that's

just you have to point the finger at

yourself I failed to realize what a lot

of other people failed as well with FTX

but that's still my failure I failed at

becoming a server for some reason maybe

my customer service wasn't as good as it

should have been I failed failed at

being a jagex moderator maybe because my

posts weren't good enough maybe I failed

at doing Contracting for other people

because I was trying to do Contracting

for other people at the same time as

running the real estate business which

took a lot of work and I was out of

balance and so I ended up not being able

to do the right job and think those

things through that's a risk uh I think

the same thing is true here like this is

obviously you know what whatever I could

point the finger and go oh you're a

scumbag I thought you were my friend

whatever or it's my failure to properly

communicate uh my thesis which is that

look I I think I think Elon would

actually benefit in his mission of

sustainability by revising some of the

things that he does just a little bit

little bit of PR tweaks that's all I'm

saying uh you know and uh and my my

vision is simply that uh and the same

thing here with YouTube right you could

be like oh well you know Kevin you know

uh you you are hiding all your videos

and I'm like oh my gosh no like

obviously now that in hindsight I look

and like well that was a failure and a

Communications failure uh my thinking

was oh we're going to get to go through

my old videos and we're going to be able

to react to them and kind of like bring

life to them again cuz I was going

through the YouTube analytics Studio you

know when when they're all there and I'm

like bro these videos aren't getting

views like those old videos they you

know they get views and then they go to

zero and I'm like what's the point like

let's just breathe life back into the

ones that that are worthy of having life

breathed back into them because nobody's

watching the other ones anyway uh now

it's sort of like well I guess I didn't

manage the expectation that people would

be like well but what if I wanted to go

look at it at least it's there it's like

a uh so uh where do you go from here

okay well let's talk about

that

so uh where you go from here is really

interesting

uh there are two things you can do as an

entrepreneur when when something doesn't

work out when when either you just

failed or you are failing or you made a

mistake or you improperly communicated

something or or whatever I think the

first thing we all have to do and this

is the hardest part is you have to look

Inward and you have to be able to say

yeah I it it's my

fault it's what it is I have to take

responsibility for everything you know I

have to take responsibility for you know

sometimes uh uh or or at least once

having missed a stap say I have to take

responsibility for uh for uh FTX I have

to take responsibility for that

contractor base I have to take

responsibility for the surf all all of

the things that I've done I have to take

responsibility for the failures uh but I

also get to take responsibility for the

successes if I take responsibility for

the failures and I think at a bare

minimum many of us we can look and we

could

say just the fact the mere fact that

we're sitting here watching this video

is already a win and some people are

going to say well you won the ovarian

Lottery you were worn in a born in a

first world country you know or you you

had this advantage or this advantage or

whatever oh you're privileged or that or

or

whatever okay

well some things are what they are and

we're going to take the cards we're

dealt with and we're going to go well I

could do the best I can with this or you

could give up so there's sort of like

the two directions that you could go you

can give up which is very very common it

is extremely common to just get give up

the thing is it's easier to give up it's

way easier to say f it I give up

because that is the least painful you

can accept that okay well maybe it's not

meant to be and you give up and it stops

the pain of failure because what really

hurts is when you're trying and you're

not growing instead you're

failing and uh it's easier then to just

stop trying and then I mean you fail

with certainty then but you stop trying

and and then you just try to do

something different I've always thought

of uh life as sort of like being in like

a jungle and you have like your little

uh wood Hut amongst the trees and you

kind of got to like go on your little

quests and by going on your quest you're

kind of grabbing onto the like the

monkey Vine and then going to go over

here oh okay that was a failure this

time I'm going to go that way and that

way and then you kind of have to go back

to your little house so it's sort of

like you're constantly going on these

like roams in life it's like all right

I'm coming back to the house did I get

loot or did I get my ass

beat uh so uh hopefully you come back

with loot uh you know and and that's the

goal is you you come back uh with some

victory

now practically what does this mean well

practically what this means is uh I I

need

to really double down on uh what I think

uh folks want uh and what I want which

is to in in sort of an order of priority

uh number one make sure that we we stick

to this schedule that we have which uh

in the description down below there's a

meet Kevin live podcast or a channel

that's where I will be live every day

the market is open at 5:25 a.m. whether

you want to watch or not I will be there

Market open live stream it's a different

channel so make sure you go there hit

the notification Bell so you get

notified for it if you want to watch the

podcast with me Mikey McKay me Kevin

Mikey McKay the 3M you know subscribe to

the podcast Channel down below if you

want to watch me talk about politics

I've done some really great videos

already on politics we give politics

down down below I'm also going to be

posting videos to the house Haack

channel so you can stay up to date with

what's going on with house hack you want

to watch those videos subscribe to that

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see sort of broader deeper update videos

uh that are edited in post rather than

live uh you can subscribe here so uh

priority number one uh is uh is is

always continuing to provide that base

level of value that I do here so whether

uh you think I'm a scam or you hate me

I'm just going to keep putting one foot

in front of the other and keep trying

because uh that's always uh what has

worked for me I've always been able to

just wake up fortunately KN come would

that we keep being able to do that thank

you thank you to the GS uh and and and

then say you know

what this is a hard time this feels like

crap you know I lost a deal in real

estate as a buyer or as an agent I

didn't get the listing or whatever I

guess that just means I have to wake up

and work harder today I guess that just

means I have to work twice as hard

because that person got the deal but you

know what maybe my pitch was bad maybe

maybe I said something to piss him off

I've done that before too like I'll I've

gone to listenting present before uh

just as an example where I'll have like

three people and it's like a trust it's

like an estate and there's three people

and there's like this one lady who's got

this stare and she's like

this and then they're like the three

dudes and and they're all like all right

man tell us what we should do okay yeah

yeah that flooring okay great that paint

color okay got it and you know like and

we're like

so uh you know I don't know we're

relating over video games because they

had a video game game chair with one of

them and the other one's like oh I like

paintball and I'm like I was just

paintball and you go to this field and

that and I'm relating really well with

these three guys and at the end of the

Ling presentation all three of these

guys are like bro we need to go out for

beer sometime or whatever and these are

people who were like 20 years older than

me and they're like this is so great

thank you so much you're such a great

agent we can't wait to work with you and

I'm like man I got that deal in the bag

I got that deal in the

bag and then like a week later it's

listed with some other agent and I'm

like what the

hell and then and then the first thing

that goes through your mind is like they

just milked me for information they just

wanted to know what Thor's in or the

paint colors screw them man they suck

and then I I realized I'm like oh Kevin

you

idiot the lady who was there staring at

me she was probably the decision maker

and I related with the guys but not her

once she probably felt this guy thinks

I'm invisible he must be a misogynous

douchebag only relating to the dudes

well I'm the executive I make the

decision so screw him right so like

that's another example where it's like

uh oops didn't see that one coming uh

now then then you know part of me's like

but but but but but she was The Quiet

One you know I was responding to all the

dude's questions like still my failure

didn't

realize

so you know these

uh you the these are these are the sort

of perspectives uh in things where you

know people are like oh you just sell

courses courses are scam it's like well

I don't think so because they tell they

obviously provide perspective that other

people generally wouldn't get we have

our Black Friday going at me kevin.com

you you already know about that but so

here here are the

priorities uh we're going to have our

schedule for YouTube which uh again

there's a live uh podcast and the

politics and those are recorded you

could go watch them right now and get a

sample of

them uh then uh the the biggest biggest

priority that's taking the vast majority

of my time right now is house hack and

so uh just as an example yesterday I

flew I took off at um

11:05 and uh look look at I I'll tell

you my schedule yesterday just so you

could see it so yesterday my schedule I

put it all in the calendar stock market

open Live 5:25 course member live at

6:45 uh meet Kevin podcast we filmed

that starting at 7:55 meet Kevin

politics live was at 9:00 I filmed my

Tesla video at 10:00 a.m. which I

thought was very good but whatever

people are mad about I had my flight at

11:05 as soon as I hit the tarmac I had

a yahooo finance interview then I had to

drive 30 minutes to meet a real estate

agent checked out five different

properties flew to a another destination

which was really nice because it was

like an like a 12-minute flight which I

know that sounds ridiculous like oh my

God you're taking a 12-minute flight but

it was like here's how it went down okay

property hits the market at 3:30 p.m.

I'm supposed to take off at

45ish uh out of one city and I'm like

Pilots this deal just hit the market

it's a 2 and 1 half hour drive if I

drive there right now can we pit stop

over there and I could get the free C

crew car which is awesome cuz they give

you like a free car that's generally for

the pilots but it was like yo I I

literally just need to go from here to

there round trip 10 minutes at this

property and round trip I'll be back

really fast less than an hour can I take

the crew car they're like Sure Thing Man

here's the key take the crew car you

know 12-minute flight take the crew car

go look at the property come back boom

write an offer then fly back home and so

it's like okay all right all right

that's that's a busy day because now you

know I'm at this property at 5:30 uh

after I just hit the market 2 hours ago

before the openhouse weekend craze then

I'm uh uh you know over at um uh what's

it called uh uh flying home to uh uh to

bring one of our well not only get me

home but we also doubled up and brought

one of our uh Contracting team members

home uh from the jobs that they were

working on the area and now I'm filming

this video here and and uh in 90 minutes

I'm going to be on a plane going to the

next destination so house hack is a

really big deal uh house hack is uh a

you know the the core of what's going on

right now and there's there's a lot of

work to do uh so I'm really excited

about it uh the it's it's something I

know how to do very well and we've been

doing a fantastic job uh so far with

house hack uh I'm actually really

impressed with how well knock on wood

it's getting

started uh so I'm very excited about

that uh a lot of people they wonder you

know hey how hard is it to run an

actively manage ETF and all the other

stuff uh that you've got going on with

with you know regulation world and stuff

like that uh it actually doesn't take as

much time as you think uh it's it's

actually been really uh fantastic uh you

know we we are in a place right now

where I I think we're in really good

graces and I hope it stays that way

knock on wood uh I think we're uh we're

in great Gra

with with the companies we work with

with uh uh finra which is a regulator

with the

SEC uh these are these are you know

they're they're the cops they're the

cops on the street and I feel like the

relationship we have right now is you

know we walk down the stream we like oh

hey Finn R oh hey SEC and they're like

oh hey me Kevin keep up that disclosure

and it's like you got it you know so

um uh I I feel really happy about that

but you know it's it's interesting

because

yeah like pain in business and the

business cycle you know comes in sort of

waves and it's like you know right now

I'd say there's probably pain in YouTube

but it's offset by really really great

success with uh not only house hack but

uh the you know the broker dealer world

but also these twins you want to see the

twin one of the twins let me see I I I

think at 8:30 is feeding time it's 8:28

I'll be right back this is

glar

hello

Claire this is

Claire Claire isn't it a little bright

out there I'm sorry it's so bright out

there oh that's a prescription you see

this prescription right here it says

Tesla by the dip yeah you got the hicups

don't you oh

oh

so anyway I think that's uh

uh yeah I guess uh there are ups and

downs in life uh everybody goes through

them

um well there are definitely some Downs

right now on YouTube I have to say I'm

so fortunate to be able to have uh two

little beautiful twin girls right here

uh just a few weeks old born on October

26th so what is that three three and a

halfish weeks old now coming up on four

weeks now In fairness they were a little

prey they were born in 35 weeks aren't

you so you're technically only about 38

weeks old you're technically only

supposed to be coming out right

now you were a little early weren't you

yeah oh it's so bright I know I'm going

to get you out of here okay it's too

bright in here it's probably too bright

and cold huh bright and

Cold anyway uh yeah hey you know what

ups and downs in life uh what I found

though is every time things felt really

really dark and like the end was near uh

it was just leading up to the next

Beautiful Beginning isn't that right you

want to make thumbnail faces with me

okay Claire we are already teaching her

how to make really good thumbnail faces

uh go ahead and with those

eyes yeah good good thumbnail

faces yeah hey how you doing

this is your week time isn't it for a

little bit for your breakfast feed y'all

sleep like 20 hours a

day yeah y'all sleep like four Kevin

sleeps per

day all right why don't you say

goodbye there the head moved a little

bit anyway thanks so much uh for your

support watch me where you want the

content that you want uh you uh In

fairness might not be recommended uh the

channel a lot because there's so much

like confusion and stuff right now so I

think the algorithm you know might not

be pushing it as much until we sort of

rebuild and get it all set up again but

uh I'm confident that eventually we will

get that fixed so uh you might just have

to search for me Kevin and uh along with

that means you'll get to scroll past all

the uh all the people who want to make

sure to remind you of all my failures

thanks for watching and we'll see you in

the next one