AliAbdaal.com [Ali Abdaal]

<p>Listen to the Nathan Barry podcast <a href="https://nathanbarry.com/048-ali-abdaal-building-multiple-income-streams-content-creator/">https://nathanbarry.com/048-ali-abdaal-building-multiple-income-streams-content-creator/</a> (7 and 21 mins in)</p><p><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p>So, I started the YouTube channel in my penultimate year, so I, I, I, I done five years of med school at this point. I’d set up a few businesses. I had like two SAS products that I was using to side hustle, income, most my, my way through med school. And then in 2017, when I was in my final year, the YouTube channel actually started out as a content marketing strategy for my, my business, that business was helping other people get into med school.</p><p>It was like that standard thing. Once you do something, you then teach other people how to do the thing. and it was like, you know, the creative economy before it was really called that where</p><p>[00:07:20] <strong>Nathan:</strong><br>Yeah,</p><p>[00:07:20] <strong>Ali:</strong><br>You kind of follow that model. And so the YouTube channel started.</p><p>[00:07:23] <strong>Nathan:</strong><br>Because you were you teaching people like test prep</p><p>[00:07:25] <strong>Ali:</strong><br>Exactly. Yeah. And it’s so similar to pet Flynn story as well.</p><p>You know, he, he started off teaching people how to do some architecture exam. I started up teaching people how to do the med school admissions exams, and that’s kind of transitioned into a coaching business, which then transitioned into the YouTube channel.</p><p>[00:07:40] <strong>Nathan:</strong><br>Okay. And so as the YouTube channel started to grow, like, what were some of those first milestones, you know, as you’re getting to, how long did it take for you to a thousand subscribers and then maybe, you know, 5,000 or 10,000? Like what milestones stand out.</p><p>[00:07:52] <strong>Ali:</strong><br>Yeah, so I started in the summer of 2017 and it took me six months and 52 videos to get to the first thousand subscribers,