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MrBeast's Five Billion Dollar Empire: Beast Games, Step Fintech, and the Super Bowl Million Dollar Challenge

MrBeast's Five Billion Dollar Empire: Beast Games, Step Fintech, and the Super Bowl Million Dollar Challenge

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Jimmy Donaldson, the YouTube titan known as MrBeast, has been on a tear this week, blending his reality TV empire with bold business moves that could redefine his legacy. On February 11, the Los Angeles Times dished on Season 2 Episode 8 of Beast Games airing on Prime Video, where Donaldson hosts heart-pounding challenges like contestants buried alive under two to three feet of dirt and tempted by massive cash piles. Contestant Monika Ronk sparked drama by selling a crucial coin doubling the five million dollar prize for half a million bucks, dubbing it her villain arc, while Nick Mariano grabbed 250 thousand from a million dollar mound. In a candid interview, Donaldson teased Episode 10 as the greatest content hes ever filmed, hyped the shows deeper storytelling with just 200 contestants versus Seasons 2000, and addressed a lingering 2024 class-action lawsuit over unsafe conditions by stressing millions spent on safety experts and testing. He even nodded to a Survivor crossover, hinting at annual events if Jeff Probst is game.

Shifting gears to business, Beast Industries, valued at over five billion dollars, snapped up youth fintech app Step on February 9 or 11 according to Banking Dive, Observer, and Fast Company Middle East reports. The deal, amount undisclosed, targets Gen Z with banking, credit-building, and investing tools for seven million users backed by stars like Stephen Curry and Will Smith. Donaldson posted on X, Nobody taught me about investing, building credit, or managing money when I grew upthats why were joining forces with Step to give millions of young people the financial foundation I never had. Beast Industries CEO Jeff Housenbold called it a play to transform financial futures, with plans for a financial literacy YouTube channel and trademarks like Beast Financial filed last October. Speculation from The Publish Press suggests this builds toward an IPO via recurring revenue streams, pairing with upcoming Beast Mobile telecom and a creator-marketer marketplace.

Adding Super Bowl sizzle, ABC News GMA reported Donaldson dropping hints Monday on his viral Salesforce ad puzzle offering one million dollars to the first solverno winners yet despite 60 million site visits. He urged fans to scour Super Bowl photos for numbers and use Salesforces AI Slackbot for clues, promising an X tweet when its cracked. No fresh public appearances or social mentions popped beyond these, but his 466 million subscriber channel keeps the buzz electric.

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