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Jul 2022
54m 39s

#240: Elliot Choy – Opening Up About 1 M...

Danny Miranda
About this episode

Elliot Choy is a YouTuber with more than 1 million subscribers. Over the past four years, his videos have been watched 91,000,000 times. He has recently moved into an apartment in NYC with his creator friends called Ur Moms House.   

In this interview, we spoke about going viral, his favorite book, meeting Gary Vaynerchuk, and what life is really like as someone who has 1 million subscribers.   

(0:00) Intro 

(0:52) Elliot’s early career choices 

(5:25) Gary V’s influence 

(6:47) Feeling cool 

(9:03) Colin & Samir video 

(11:41) Viral videos 

(15:23) First non-viral video 

(17:51) “10,000 views would feel terrible” 

(20:21) Grabbing attention 

(26:00) Meetup 

(28:03) Mission  

(29:54) Principles by Ray Dalio 

(32:05) Emotional maturity 

(34:51) ur mom’s house 

(44:25) Meeting Gary Vaynerchuk 

(47:23) Reading people 

(50:12) Mental exercise 

(54:10) Thank you, Elliot  

YouTube –  @Elliot Choy  

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/elliotchoy/ 

Colin & Samir video on Ur Moms House – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvtMJFPyiLM

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