All statements about Ali Abdaal

48 statements about Ali Abdaal in 33 sources, by upload date.

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2026

2026-03-12 · If I Started YouTube from Scratch in 2026, I’d do THIS — Ali grew his YouTube channel from zero to over a million subscribers while working full-time as a doctor, from 2017 through 2020, and says things are very different now. — 00:00:00
2026-03-12 · If I Started YouTube from Scratch in 2026, I’d do THIS — Ali: When he started his business, Ali's dream was to make an extra £3,000 (about $4,000) of passive income a month, which would have let him go part-time as a doctor. — 00:02:20
2026-03-29 · The Side Hustle Trilemma — Ali started in the second lane: with no intention of quitting medicine, he wanted about £3,000 a month on the side so he could go part-time; the side hustle overtook medicine and he quit. — 00:00:00
2026-05-21 · If You Want to Make Money From YouTube, Do This. — Jeff Su: Jeff chose YouTube in 2020 partly because Ali's videos of the time gave a step-by-step blueprint for succeeding on YouTube. — 00:07:24
2026-05-21 · If You Want to Make Money From YouTube, Do This. — Ali also started YouTube with no intention of leaving medicine: his dream was to work three days a week, for which he needed an extra £3,000 a month. — 00:07:52
2026-05-21 · If You Want to Make Money From YouTube, Do This. — Jeff Su: The first step Jeff gave those Googlers was to take Ali's $1 course on making a first YouTube video, a product since discontinued. — 00:14:30
2026-05-21 · If You Want to Make Money From YouTube, Do This. — Jeff Su: Jeff followed Ali's premise of uploading one video a week for two years; from the outset his commitment was exactly two years. — 00:21:01
2026-05-21 · If You Want to Make Money From YouTube, Do This. — Jeff Su: Jeff tried his best to copy Ali's style when he started, and could not, because he is not Ali; a year in, someone called him "the Asian Ali Abdaal". — 00:34:53

2025

2025-02-28 · How to Actually Make Money Online in 2026 - Case Study — Aman says it also helped that Ali looked very similar to him on paper. — 00:03:34
2025-02-28 · How to Actually Make Money Online in 2026 - Case Study — Aman tells Ali there is value in saying the same thing over and over: he needed to hear "just stay consistent" every week from Ali's channel. — 00:25:30
2025-03-28 · Honest YouTube Advice for 45 Minutes Straight (2026) — Ali: When Ali worked full-time as a doctor, a senior who did not like him at all made him dread work on her days, and he tried to take annual leave when she was on call. — 00:37:18
2025-04-04 · Watch this if you feel like you’re behind in life — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked by a viewer whether Ali is from Pakistan, the channel replies yes. — creator comment
2025-07-18 · I’m Starting a New Series About Financial & Time Freedom — Ali says productivity content is staying on his channel: he has written one book about productivity and is writing a second. — 00:01:21
2025-07-18 · I’m Starting a New Series About Financial & Time Freedom — Ali: Seeing that almost no doctor would stay full-time, Ali concluded as a student that he needed to go part-time in medicine, and for that he needed to make money outside medicine. — 00:10:36
2025-07-18 · I’m Starting a New Series About Financial & Time Freedom — Ali's goal became £3,000 a month: after tax about £2,000 of extra disposable income, which would double his disposable income and let him work three or four days a week as a doctor. (hedged) — 00:11:14
2025-07-18 · I’m Starting a New Series About Financial & Time Freedom — Ali says that as a student he did not care about getting rich or flying business class: he dreamed of working three or four days a week with one day to himself. — 00:11:38
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: In medical school and his first years as a doctor, Ali was obsessed with chasing money to buy financial freedom: not to get rich, but for options such as going part-time or leaving medicine. — 00:45:45
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — Ali's lifestyle business was meant to let him go part-time in medicine, but it made far more money than medicine, so he went full-time on it. — 00:15:10
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: At 18, seeing that the happiest doctors he knew worked part-time, three days a week, Ali calculated that £3,000 a month of extra income would let him work three days a week as a doctor; this started his journey to financial freedom. — 00:06:07
2025-09-09 · We’ve got some HUGEEEE news... @IzzySealey link in description 👀 — announcement: Izzy Sealey: Izzy announces that she and Ali have built an app together, Momentum: Energizing Habits, for habits that move you towards a goal or give you energy but that you sometimes do not do. — 00:00:00
2025-09-19 · How I Would Build A Business in 2026 (If I had to start over) — Daniel Priestley says Ali, by leaving medicine for YouTube, got off the declining industrialised system and into the rising digital economy. — 00:36:09
2025-09-19 · How I Would Build A Business in 2026 (If I had to start over) — Daniel Priestley says a productivity app, software or school would be an obvious founder opportunity fit for Ali, who already has people interested in productivity. — 00:57:56
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — announcement: Ali: For his second book Ali plans a sprint of two to four weeks focused only on the book, rather than weaving it into his other work. — 00:09:00
2025-10-20 · How to Find Your Life’s Purpose — Joe Hudson recalls sitting with his wife in a hot tub at the end of one of his week-long retreats, which Ali has attended, after seven days of work from 7.30 in the morning to 10 at night. — 00:01:20
2025-11-17 · This is the exact moment that changed my life — Ali: Seeing that most doctors would rather not work full-time and only lacked the money, Ali decided to start a business on the side, to have the option of cutting medicine to about three days a week. — 00:00:29
2025-11-17 · This is the exact moment that changed my life — Ali says the decision to start his first business and read books on entrepreneurship, side hustles, investing and how money is made completely transformed his life. — 00:00:58

2024

2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy, who remembered Ali from medical school, asked to join the Part-Time YouTuber Academy while seeing her channel as a fun little hobby and challenge, not a full-time job. — 00:06:57
2024-04-23 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: While working as a doctor, what Ali wanted from financial freedom was the ability to go part-time: the happiest doctors he knew worked three days a week rather than six. — 00:01:42
2024-04-23 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: To Ali, financial freedom meant buying his free time; without it he felt he would be financially chained to something, for him his day job. — 00:02:24
2024-05-24 · 7 Life Lessons I Know at 30 But Wish I Knew at 20 — Ali: Around 2020 Ali asked himself what he would choose to do if he could design his life from scratch, and realised that, though he enjoyed being a doctor, it was not that. — 00:16:42
2024-07-09 · If I Wanted to Make $10,000 as a Student, I'd Do This — Ali: Earning his own money at university let Ali go on holidays and trips without worrying about finances, and gave him a profound sense of empowerment that asking his mum for money would not have. — 00:00:29
2024-07-29 · Why some medical students drop out — Ali then set his focus on getting through medical school and enjoying it while building businesses on the side, so that a couple of grand a month would let him do medicine for fun rather than for the money. — 00:00:29

2023

2023-12-08 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: From the doctors' answers Ali concluded he needed to make money on the side, so that any medicine he did would be for fun and fulfilment rather than money; he went on to build a business that let him quit his day job. — 00:22:18

2021

2021-03-14 · Why I Left Medicine (And Why I'm Going Back) — Ali: However much you enjoy something, Ali thinks, doing it five or six days a week is probably not that fun, and three or four days would be much more fun. (hedged) — 00:11:20
2021-07-18 · Answering Uncomfortable Questions With My Personal Assistant — Elizabeth says working with Ali taught her not to care what people think and, one of the most life-changing lessons for her, to ship things before she is ready. — 00:07:06
2021-09-03 · We broke up… — Sheen watched a lot of TV when she moved in but hardly does now, probably because Ali is always doing things, so she does things too. — 00:18:26
2021-09-03 · We broke up… — Sheen was most upset when Ali forgot her birthday weekend and planned a trip on it, and then reacted as if it did not matter; they have since resolved it. — 00:20:25
2021-09-03 · We broke up… — Sheen tells Ali's next roommate that he is easy to live with, but to recalibrate expectations of how often he will want to hang out, which is not very often. — 00:22:53
2021-11-13 · How I Run this YouTube Channel - Day in the Life — announcement: Ali's team is planning videos documenting what it is like to try to sell digital products on the internet, a topic he thinks much of his audience may be interested in. — 00:04:31
2021-12-03 · Reflecting On My Fears - Day in the Life — Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify, says he and Ali became "pandemic friends" after meeting during one of Ali's Deep Dives. — 00:16:40
2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — announcement: Ali says he will make a video, coming out very soon, on how much money he spent in 2021, to show the expenses side of his income. — 00:03:53

2020

2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali: Wanting to avoid that future set Ali on the path of businesses, passive income and financial independence: medicine is fun, but he doesn't think anything is fun full-time. — 00:09:52
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali's end goal has never been to work as a doctor full-time but part-time, two or three days a week. — 00:18:34
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: High US pay is not a motivation for Ali: medicine is not how he wants to make money; he wants to earn on the side from other things and do medicine for fun, his goal since his first year of medical school. — 00:19:02
2020-08-04 · How to Make Money from your Passion — Sarah Dietschy says originality is what you make of the things you are into, with your own spin: the corner of YouTube of Ali and Thomas Frank was not even a thing five years ago. — 00:06:42
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: Given the choice, Ali would not spend his life as he spent the last two years, 48 hours a week in hospital with an hour's drive each way; designing his life from scratch, he would do medicine two or three days a week because it is fun. — 00:27:32
2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: Designing his life from scratch, Ali would not be a doctor five days a week but somewhere between one and three; he enjoys being a doctor but wants to do it part-time, as everything is more fun part-time. — 00:16:54
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali still wants to be a doctor, but part-time: three days a week would be really fun, while doing anything five to seven days a week risks burnout and stress. — 00:10:31