Makeup Mogul Michelle Phan: Building a YouTube Empire, Bitcoin vs Banks, AI Influencers?!

Michelle Phan is an award-winning content creator whose videos have garnered more than a billion views. YouTube’s first makeup influencer has been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30 and Style’s 30 Under 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs. She left Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida when her YouTube channel started taking off, and returned to Ringling in 2014 to receive an honorary doctorate. In 2011, Michelle co-founded ipsy, the world’s largest beauty community, and in 2015 founded EM Cosmetics with L’Oreal, then in 2017 acquired EM. In 2020, she invested in Lolli, a rewards company that gives shoppers Bitcoin for online purchases. Michelle is focused on leveraging blockchain technologies to create newer and more efficient infrastructures to empower the next generation of online users and creators.

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🗒️ IN THIS EPISODE:

0:00 Intro, Swan Bitcoin promo
1:33 Who is Michelle Phan? Vietnamese background, raised in Boston
3:47 Choosing art school over med school
8:08 Grateful for struggle
12:28 Source of strength to blaze her own trail
14:06 Becoming one of the first YouTube influencers
18:06 Attending Ringling College of Art and Design
21:05 Turning YouTube from hobby to business
24:52 "The new American dream."
27:04 Pioneering influencer space, new media
34:58 Making first million, calling mom
42:18 Discovering Bitcoin
47:52 Banking crisis; exposed in Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)
52:29 "Everyone is going to discover Bitcoin in their own way."
1:00:21 Millennials are adaptive
1:05:20 How will AI help?
1:07:54 What's Michelle Phan working on next?

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