"Your first 100 videos are going to suck"
About this Quote
The specificity of “100” matters. It’s not poetic; it’s industrial. A big round number turns “practice” into a measurable production schedule, the kind you can track on a spreadsheet. That’s the subtext: creativity as iteration, not inspiration. He’s importing startup logic into self-expression: ship, learn, optimize, repeat. The sting of “suck” does cultural work, too. It punctures the self-protective perfectionism that social platforms quietly incentivize, where every upload feels like a referendum on your identity. By naming early work as inevitably bad, he gives permission to be publicly mediocre long enough to become privately competent.
Context is everything: MrBeast is a celebrity built on relentless testing and escalation, a creator whose origin story is grind plus analytics plus reinvestment. Coming from him, the quote doubles as a map of the attention economy. Platforms reward consistency, not just brilliance; audiences reward narratives of improvement; creators survive by treating embarrassment as overhead. It’s motivational, sure, but also brutally pragmatic: the cost of entry is a long stretch of unglamorous reps while nobody’s watching.
Quote Details
| Topic | Learning from Mistakes |
|---|---|
| Source | MrBeast on the Lex Fridman Podcast (episode interview, 2023) |
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"Your first 100 videos are going to suck." FixQuotes, 24 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/your-first-100-videos-are-going-to-suck-184111/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.



