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How he makes $1.2M a year on Youtube without showing his face - Jake Tran

He runs multiple faceless YouTube channels. He's a popular YouTuber, creator and entrepreneur. He makes videos about political power, the dark sides of big businesses, true crime and videos about how to recognize crypto and corporate scams.

Jake TranguestMarina MogilkohostArvid Alicameo
Aug 1, 202430mWatch on YouTube

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EPISODE INFO

Released
August 1, 2024
Duration
30m
Channel
Silicon Valley Girl
Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Meet Jake Tran https://www.youtube.com/@UCoOjH8D2XAgjzQlneM2W0EQ He runs multiple faceless YouTube channels. He's a popular YouTuber, creator and entrepreneur. He makes videos about political power, the dark sides of big businesses, true crime and videos about how to recognize crypto and corporate scams. But sometimes Jake also gets criticized because of reducing the quality of his videos compared to those posted in the initial years of his channel and ads from questionable sponsors. In this video, we're going to find out how he makes around $1000000 a month at 80% margin, and how he navigates ups and downs of a creator career. Jake in Instagram: https://instagram.com/jaketran In this video: 00:00 - Meet Jake Tran 01:39 - How long has he been doing his channels? 03:55 - How it all began 04:36 - The book that changed his life. 07:33 - Criticism of his content. What was his reaction to that? 08:52 - How does he select topics for videos? 09:19 - Meeting Arvid Ali 11:08 - I need to find a way to create a system that creates the videos for me 12:20 - How does he work with the team? 17:12 - Does he have any other channels? 19:00 - Risks of having multiple channels 20:53 - Top sources monetizing channels 22:00 - The advice to people who are starting YouTube channel 24:07 - I decided to jump on a call with Arvid to ask him all the questions 28:09 - What's the ballpark figure for like producing one video if we find people internationally? *Links*: Follow my free newsletter about AI: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/ Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/silicon-valley-girl/id1819090545 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZRsvu61y1C2GIc8J2gsY?si=dc7fbe168f884dc2 Instagram: instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marinamogilko X: x.com/siliconvalleymm My Companies & Products: https://marinamogilko.ru/collabyt #siliconvalleygirl #marinamogilko #jaketran

SPEAKERS

  • Jake Tran

    guest

    YouTube creator known for faceless documentary-style videos and operating multiple channels using outsourced production systems.

  • Marina Mogilko

    host

    YouTube creator and entrepreneur who hosts the Silicon Valley Girl channel and interviews other creators and founders.

  • Arvid Ali

    cameo

    YouTube/business creator who appears briefly to give tactical advice on hiring and scaling production teams.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, featuring Jake Tran and Marina Mogilko, How he makes $1.2M a year on Youtube without showing his face - Jake Tran explores Jake Tran's Faceless YouTube Empire: Systems, Delegation, and Multiple Channels Jake Tran moved from an on-camera personal-brand channel to faceless documentary-style content because he felt personal-experience content runs out of ideas and leads to burnout.

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