🍪 MrBeast is looking for investors, plus an alpha alert

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In the oven this week:

• 💰 Mr. Beast could be Youtube’s first billionaire

• 🤑 ALPHA ALERT

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• 🍫 Chocolate chips: our favorite finds to help you crush life

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FRESHLY BAKED

MRBEAST = FIRST YOUTUBE BILLIONAIRE?

MrBeast. Lord of the Christmas lights. Keeper of the best mustache of all Youtubers. A real life burger king.

If you don’t know who he is, let me give you the crib sheet.

MrBeast is:

• a 24 year old Youtuber known for viral philanthropic stunts

• followed by 192M subscribers on Youtube

• the highest paid Youtuber as of last year (made $54M, nbd)

• known to have an insane work ethic

• stupid genius enough to cut a plastic table in half with a bunch of plastic knives

And if that weren’t enough, the guy’s now raising $150M for his business at a 1.5 billion dollar valuation. Outside of his **EIGHTEEN** Youtube channels, he’s started a few other businesses:

• Feastables, a snacks business, last valued at $50M

• MrBeast Burger, a ghost kitchen also making millions

• A physical restaurant for MrBeast Burger

All I know is, I need whatever time management app he’s using.

Now, why would investors care?

1. Creators can generally have pretty good margins. If you post a video, you work for it once, but it earns for months and potentially years after you post it

2. Once you have a sizable audience, it becomes a lot easier to grow and monetize. You create a piece of content that builds an audience, who you can then push products to and in turn get more eyeballs on your content to grow your audience - it’s a reinforcing system

But is MrBeast really worth 1.5B?

We’ll be watching how this one plays out 👀

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🚨🤑 ALPHA ALERT

We’re Bite Sized Beta, but we got room for some bite sized alpha too.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, let’s just say - sometimes you come across a deal so sweet it leaves you wondering if it’s already Black Friday. Kinda like when mom does your chores AND says you can have dessert tonight.

And before y’all come at me, THIS AIN’T FINANCIAL ADVICE, YA HYENAS!!

Ok, now here’s the punchline:

The US Treasury sold a record $979m of Series I bonds last Friday.

Wtf are Series I bonds, you ask?

Think of a bond as you lending the government money. The government agrees to pay ya back later, plus interest.

These Series I bonds are designed to protect you from inflation, so they earn a fixed rate of interest based on inflation rates (when inflation is high, you earn more interest).

The best part? You don't pay state/local income tax on the gains.

The interest rate changes every 6 months, and until last Friday, it was a whopping 9.62%. Earlier this week, it was adjusted to 6.89%, which still ain’t bad if you take a look at how our NFTs are doing.

Alright, so it sounds like a suspiciously sweet deal. What’s the catch?

• You can only buy $10,000 of them a year, plus another $5,000 with your tax refund, so $15,000 per person/year

• You can’t cash out within a year

• If you cash out between 1-5 years, you forfeit 3 months of interest

That’s it.

Do with that what you will 😇

Alpha fairy, out.

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Some golden nuggets for life:

• An ancient technique to improve your attention span

• Ever wonder what the point of getting married is? Well, here’s your chance to find out – for all the couples out there (or forward-thinking single people), there’s a great tax calculator that lets you see whether you’d pay more taxes when you file jointly vs separately.

• 23 Chrome extensions to help you hack life

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Add a sprinkle of ignorance to your lunch today, folks.

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That's all for this week, see ya next Thursday, friends!

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