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Brandon Baum

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508 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

And help them kind of build up their YouTube channel.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

Then when COVID hit, it went from us shooting videos every day to a complete halt.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

Then at this moment, I was like, wow.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

I kind of got, I've got the itch.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

I need to go and create content.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

I can't leave the house.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

We tried to make videos over zoom and just, it wasn't working.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

So when we decided that we would kind of take a little pause in the channels, I thought, well, why don't I just start my own channel again and just start making daily videos.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

So I kind of divulged in the space that I was really passionate about, which is these kind of visual effect videos using, um, like after effects skills that I'd learned at a younger age again through YouTube.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

Um, and.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

putting that kind of like visual trickery into my videos.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

Originally very inspired by Zach King.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

To be honest, he is still an incredible inspiration to us today, but kind of went down that avenue.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

And I guess at that point, because I then had the experience of both working in production, but then also on YouTube, kind of brought those two worlds together and within a month managed to grow about a million followers.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

Amazing.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

Oh my God.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

that is really fast what the heck so at that point i kind of looked around i went okay cool i think i think i think there's a real opportunity here to start trying to grow and scale this out and thankfully i got a ton of support from woody incline who i was working with at the time who then really kind of helped me on my journey and my path onto that next stage and uh from there the rest is history i guess five years later we're now up to it's about 25 million across platforms and

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

It just, day by day, just consistently keeps blowing me away of the scale and how far this thing keeps growing.

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

Like what?

The Neuron: AI Explained
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything

Yeah.