Ali Abdaal started his YouTube channel in 2017 during medical school, making $1.76 his first year. He hit 4.8 million subscribers and $4.8 million in annual revenue by matching his revenue target to subscriber count, growing from 20k to a million subscribers each year.
So Ali, tell us how you went from $2 to $5 million on this productivity train.
In 2017, I started my YouTube channel when I was in my final year of medical school. And in those 12 months, I made about $2 or like $1.76 according to AdSense. Over the last 6 years, it's sort of been a whoop kind of rocket ship trajectory where it took a year to get to about 20,000 subscribers, another year to get to 200,000, another year to get to 1 million, another year to get to 2. And then each year we've kind of gained another million subscribers. And one thing I've been trying to do is to get our business revenue to be the same as our subscriber count. Per year. And it's roughly tracked that. So when I was on about a million subscribers, we were doing about a million dollars in revenue. And now we're on 4.8 million subscribers. And this year we'll probably do about $4.8 million revenue, which is kind of nice.
