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800 Day Addiction

What did you do for money?

December 14, 201924:12Natalie
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Casey23:09
Like the fact that I could be in an airport with Natalie, this is my favorite, and I go, Natalie, can you go get me some waters? Like, go get me 6 waters 'cause it's gonna be a long trip. And then I'm not thinking about each water being charged on my credit c…
Natalie23:28
When you were doing your 800 days, were you chasing money or fame or making followers? What were you after?
Jason23:36
No, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, look, I started it because I had just started my tech company. And I wanted a way to like share what I was doing in my tech company. I needed to like— I needed an audience to care about what I was doing. So I…
Natalie24:12
What did you do for money?
Jason24:14
Um, I like directed TV commercials and things like that. I just didn't have much on top of vlogging. Yeah, that's when I was like— like I was in— I was in a lot of debt, lived off my credit cards a lot. And I remember like the summer before I turned monetizat…
David24:39
And then you turned on ads, like monetization.
Jason24:41
Yeah. And I remember like the first month it was like $8,000 and I was like, oh my— wow. I had no idea. I did 100 million views without monetization turned on.