Jimmy Donaldson
MrBeast and the Beast: A Christian Look at Jimmy Donaldson's Philanthropy
Posted on Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
There is a young man in North Carolina who started making YouTube videos as a teenager, dropped out of community college after two weeks, and now sits at the center of a $5 billion company with over 450 million subscribers. His real name is Jimmy Donaldson. You know him as MrBeast. By every metric we have for measuring cultural influence, he is one of the most successful people alive. He has 95 billion lifetime views.