Over the years, YouTube has grown to become the online home of various content creators. Videos on the site can cover various topics such as lifestyle videos, study tips, beauty tutorials, home workouts, and business videos. The key to making it big on this platform is to find the right niche and create videos in a way that is different from what everyone else is doing. That is precisely what YouTuber Jake Tran has done, being the first to popularize what he calls business video essays.
Jake Tran specializes in cinematic, highly produced, intellectual YouTube videos about things in the world of economics, geopolitics, business, power, and crime. His channel currently has over 1 million subscribers, and some of his most popular videos have over a million views each. While he is experiencing a lot of success as a content creator, his path to YouTube was far from straightforward.
Jake Tran was born in 1998 into a poor family in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon), Vietnam.
Jake grew up in Orange County, California and then in Arizona.
A born entrepreneur-
Jake has been an entrepreneur since his childhood.
As a child, he used to purchase energy drinks in the Asian markets with his parents’ money and resell them to his friends for a profit.
At 12, while studying in the middle school, Jake wanted to play with expensive toys but as he was poor, he used to purchase one toy and later, flip it on eBay for either cash with a little profit or flip it for another toy.
His school life-
Jake couldn’t perform well in his elementary school due to the language barrier but thankfully, he picked up in high school and developed an interest in maths and science.
He was aggressive in middle school and got into a few fights and so, he started learning Taekwondo for self-defence.
Within a few months, Jake grasped this martial art and became a Taekwondo instructor for all age groups of people and used to train after his high school.
He used to work as an instructor for six days a week and he also has a 2nd Dan Taekwondo Black Belt.
During that time, Jake was also learning guitar and used to also do freelance work related to graphic designing.
Entering YouTube-
As Jake had no cable TV at home, YouTube videos were the only single source of entertainment.
While in his high school, he used to watch tech YouTube channels like Linus Tech Tips and Marques Brownlee and was impressed by them upon learning about their YouTube earnings, brand deals, sponsorships, etc.
As during that time, Jake was skilled in Taekwondo, he started a YouTube channel related to Taekwondo by the name, Iron Wood Productions on 31 December 2015.
But his channel didn’t grow as expected and even after working for a couple of years, he wasn’t able to gain more than five thousand subscribers on it mainly because his videos weren’t good and also, not too many people were interested in Taekwondo.
Finally, Jake gave up on his YouTube channel.
Joining college-
After finishing his high school, Jake joined a community college to study Computer Science.
He studied well in college and his future plan was to become an academic and research artificial intelligence.
The Millionaire Fastlane-
Jake’s college friend recommended him The Millionaire Fastlane book and after listening to this book (he listened on Audible), he changed his plan of becoming an academic to becoming an entrepreneur.
Initially, he tried stock trading and then, planned to develop an app related to stock trading.
After taking a course on Udemy, Jake built a software as a service (SaaS) application by the name, Beautiful Stocks.
But this app couldn’t become profitable.
Becoming a web developer-
Even though Jake’s app wasn’t successful, it helped him to get a remote web developer job.
He was 18 at that time and was in his second year of college.
As soon as he got this job, Jake dropped out of the college.
He couldn’t continue in his job for long as his job wasn’t creative.
Working on YouTube-
After quitting his job, Jake started working on his YouTube channel by the name, Jake Tran.
During that time, he was very inspired by Graham Stephan and he inspired him to restart his career on YouTube.
Initially, Jake used to make videos on personal development and then, started publishing videos very similar to that of Graham Stephan.
But he wasn’t getting decent views on his videos.
Becoming successful with Blue Ocean Strategy-
During that time, Jake read the Blue Ocean Strategy book and thanks to this book, he learnt that he can attain success on YouTube by creating unique content.
So, he started creating unique videos and his first video to get viral is titled- Why Graham Stephan is killing the YouTube Algorithm.
This video was published on 5 September 2019.
Graham Stephan not only appreciated Jake’s video but also shared this with his followers on Instagram.
And from then on, he started getting good views on almost all his videos and this made him a successful YouTuber.
Jake has also a second YouTube channel by the name, Intellectual Dropouts.
Earning sources-
As of December 2021, Jake’s main earning sources are brand deals and Google AdSense.
His YouTube channel mainly focuses on businesses, politics, technology, etc.
Apart from being a YouTuber, Jake is also a capitalist.
Some interesting facts about Jake Tran-
* His favourite movies are American Hustle, The Big Short and Interstellar.
* Jake’s favourite foods are macaroni and cheese, Indian curries and Vietnamese foods. He absolutely hates crayfish.
* His favourite books are Mastery, The Black Swan and The Art of War.
* In 2018, Jake used to work 12 hours per day all through the week and skip vacations and parties.
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So, how are you inspired by the success story of Jake Tran?
Slaylebrity Net Worth Stats
Social fans: 1.35 million +
Est Networth $1 million
By youth motivator 4 life, clout news
Meet the 24 year old Meet the guy who obliterated the YouTube algorithm.
