They sold their company to Snapchat (and then became YouTubers)
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 Published On May 6, 2024

We sit down with The Bucket List Family to talk about the ethics of having a family channel, selling their company to snapchat for 40 million, and landing a deal with Disney.

00:00 Who is the Bucket List Family?
01:28 Sleepwalking in Antarctica
07:09 What’s it like to have to film family vacations?
08:32 Selling his college startup to Snapchat
21:01 The origins of their YouTube channel
24:00 How to be so productive
27:45 Their passion for traveling
33:50 Getting DDoS’d by North Korea
40:58 Going on Sharktank and failing
42:30 When their YT channel started getting popular
46:30 Who’s their audience?
48:00 Commoditizing the aspirational life
49:27 Jessica’s book with National Geographic
52:14 The ethics and business of having kids on YouTube
1:04:04 Their first big travel deal
1:07:45 Crowdfunding $10million for a cartoon
1:18:10 Where does the Bucket List studio stand today?
1:24:18 Their deal with National Geographic
1:35:06 When will the Bucket List cartoon be made?
1:37:08 What they learned from negotiating multi-million dollar deals
1:40:15 The Bucket List business pie chart
1:43:20 What their team looks like
1:45:53 Family content on YouTube as a category
1:55:45 Colin and Samir’s bucket list items
1:59:30 Their kids’ relationship with money
2:02:40 Travel hacks
2:04:39 Representing themselves vs signing with an agent
2:09:00 Their future goals



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