Dropped Out Of College With 30K Subscribers

That was Ryan Trahan back in 2017.

“He was a student athlete running track and cross country at Texas A&M University,” and he was also making a bit of money from his nascent YouTube channel about running.

But back then, under NCAA rules, student athletes couldn’t make money using their name, image, or likeness 😱

So Ryan decided to drop out of college and pursue the YouTube thing full-time. Here’s his video from 2017 announcing his decision…

Fast-forward to today: Ryan’s got 10.5 million subscribers to his channel and is earning an estimated $60K/month from ads alone 🤑

His most popular videos:

• Racing strangers in the airport (short) – 51M views…

• Bathroom (short) – 37M views…

• Tesla Autopilot For 24 Hours Straight! – 30M views…

Paddy Galloway has an excellent breakdown showing how Ryan changed his YouTube strategy a couple of years ago and 10xed the views on his videos. In Paddy’s words…

[Ryan] started implementing a three-step formula to create viral videos every single time.