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2024

Also named in: A Week in My Life · Vlog, How I Built a New $1m Business in 12 Months

2023

2022

  • 2022-01-07 · 15 Books To Read to Change Your Life — Ali says he still sucks at managing and is trying to do less of it as the business grows, so he can focus on content while team members such as Angus handle team management. — 00:18:40
  • 2022-01-21 · My New Life Goals (2022) — Ali's team now numbers 17 people, but the early members, Ali, Angus, Chris and Elizabeth, hold much of the know-how in their heads. — 00:18:32
  • 2022-02-25 · How to Grow on YouTube - Live Stream with Ali Abdaal — Ali: About two years earlier Angus cold-emailed Ali asking whether he wanted to hire a writer; Angus is now a core member of the team. — 01:18:46
  • 2022-03-16 · The Best Headphones To Buy in 2026 🎧 — Ali calls the AirPods Max case totally pointless: Gordon and Angus in his studio never carry it, and neither did he when he used AirPods Max. — 00:08:54
  • 2022-05-12 · What Am I Doing With My Life? — Ali: In Traction's terms Ali is the visionary of his business and Angus the integrator, the general manager. — 00:03:53
  • 2022-05-12 · What Am I Doing With My Life? — Ali: The leadership team of Ali's business is seven people: Ali, Angus, Gordon (production), Tommy (Part-Time YouTuber Academy), Becky (Ali Abdaal brand), Gareth (Creatorpreneur) and Dan (people, finance, admin). — 00:04:22
  • 2022-05-12 · What Am I Doing With My Life? — Ali found starting a podcast a faff until Angus suggested the team take care of everything so Ali only had to turn up and have a conversation. — 00:25:58
  • 2022-06-14 · I Read 2,216 Resumes. Here’s How You Stand Out 🚀 — Ali shows the email Angus, now general manager of his company, sent him two years earlier. — 00:01:05
  • 2022-06-14 · I Read 2,216 Resumes. Here’s How You Stand Out 🚀 — Ali: Angus's email arrived just when Ali was thinking of hiring another writer. — 00:01:40
  • 2022-06-14 · I Read 2,216 Resumes. Here’s How You Stand Out 🚀 — Ali: Angus has been with Ali's business about two and a half years and risen to general manager, his dream job; Ali says at 25 or 26 he would not have it without that first cold email. — 00:02:09
  • 2022-07-14 · How to Build Your Ultimate Productivity System — Ali's calendar for the filming day shows breakfast with Usama and Shireen at Dishoom and a same-page meeting with Angus. — 00:02:22
  • 2022-08-19 · How I Manage My Time - The System That Changed My Life — Ali has partly delegated finding a new place to live, perhaps a live-work space or a commercial building he can also live in, to Angus, so it sits in his passive column until there are places to view. — 00:03:24
  • 2022-09-18 · My London Studio Tour (2022) — Ali: When Ali was in Cambridge, he, Angus and the rest of the team used WeWork hot-desk passes, at £300 per person per month, and went to the local WeWork every day. — 00:24:50
  • 2022-11-04 · How To Build A Life You Love — Ali: On Ali's team, Tintin, Alice, Angus and Bav (as heard) have an accountability group that meets every Monday at 5 p.m. — 00:18:13
  • 2022-12-16 · How I Failed in 2022 — Ali says his business made about 3 million in revenue in 2021. (hedged) — 00:03:03
  • 2022-12-16 · How I Failed in 2022 — Ali: At the start of 2022 Ali and his general manager Angus set a revenue target of 5 million for the business. — 00:03:43
  • 2022-12-16 · How I Failed in 2022 — Ali: Angus now runs the whole business side of Ali's company, and half the team works on the courses, the Part-Time YouTuber Academy and customer support. — 00:14:13
  • 2022-12-21 · The Power of Cold Emails #shorts — Ali: Almost three years before, as Ali was starting to need help, his friend Angus sent him a cold email saying he loved his content, was a writer and asked if Ali needed help writing; Ali hired him for a few days a week in January 2020. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-12-21 · The Power of Cold Emails #shorts — Ali: When Ali hired Angus in January 2020 he had about 400,000 YouTube subscribers and his business made about £100,000 a year; about three years later Angus manages the whole business, which has around 30 times the revenue. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-12-21 · The Power of Cold Emails #shorts — Ali says all this, and many fun experiences together, came about only because Angus bothered to send a cold email, when he could easily have decided it was not worth it. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-12-27 · My Regrets about Quitting Medicine — Ali: If Ali does not feel like filming a sponsored video, even on a deadline, his general manager Angus emails the sponsor to put it off a week, and sponsors are usually fine with that. — 00:17:47

Also named in: A Day in My Life as a YouTuber

2021

  • 2021-07-14 · How much I spend in a month… — Ali has about five coaches and Angus one; the business pays about $6,000 a month for coaching, a bill that will probably rise as it hires coaches for other team members. — 00:05:51
  • 2021-07-28 · How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time — Ali: From October 2019 to August 2020 Ali's team grew by two; Angus joined as a writer researching scripts and moved into a more managerial role. — 00:09:33
  • 2021-08-16 · I was an imposter for a day...here's what I learned. — recommendation: Ali calls Steven Bartlett's book Happy Sexy Millionaire genuinely excellent despite its click-baity title; he, Angus and John found many parts of the audiobook really good. — 00:00:41
  • 2021-09-12 · My Journey of Self-Acceptance — Ali realised that the three things he is grateful for are always other people or things, such as coffee, his desk setup, his house, Sheen or Angus, and never anything about himself. — 00:03:10
  • 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: In his last months in Cambridge Ali and his team member Angus worked from the local WeWork, and Ali found it super nice to have a place to commute to. — 00:02:05
  • 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: On Mondays Ali's team gets together in the studio for a content brainstorm with the writers, the YouTube producer, Ali and Angus. — 00:03:19
  • 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: As the business grew with its courses, especially the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, Ali found holes of expertise in his team and much of it overstretched, with Angus doing seven people's jobs and Jacob four. — 00:04:12
  • 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: Almost exactly a year earlier, on 19 October 2020 as Ali recalls, he and Angus sat down with sticky notes to plan a YouTube course, which became the Part-Time YouTuber Academy. — 00:11:36
  • 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — announcement: Ali: Since running the business has taken Ali's time from content, his team is moving Angus and others to handle the business side so he can focus on content and his book. — 00:13:28
  • 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: In one way of structuring Ali's business he is the visionary and Angus the integrator, with sales and marketing, operations and production beneath them. — 00:22:28
  • 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: When Ali reads a management book such as The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, he tells Angus on Slack, Angus reads it too, and they learn and grow together. — 00:27:23
  • 2021-11-13 · How I Run this YouTube Channel - Day in the Life — Ali's leadership team, Ali, Angus as head of operations and Dan as his executive assistant and also head of HR, legal and finance, meets every Monday for 90 minutes. — 00:12:24
  • 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali: In November 2020 Ali, then full-time in the business after quitting as a doctor, had a team of about four: Christian, full-time editor in Romania, Angus, full-time writer, and Elizabeth, part-time assistant. — 00:26:16
  • 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali: Within a few weeks Ali and Angus made the slides and course material and announced the course on Twitter; Ali expected 10 to 20 people for a beta cohort, but about 350 signed up in late 2020. — 00:26:45
  • 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali: The Part-Time YouTuber Academy has four full-time team members plus paid student supporters and alumni mentors; Ali teaches six to eight hours a week while Angus, Elizabeth, Bath (as heard), Tommy and Alison run it. — 00:29:34
  • 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali: Most YouTubers run lifestyle businesses as highly paid freelancers; few build a team of 20. Ali does not think it was more fun with fewer people: he worked late then, and now Angus runs the business while he focuses on content and enjoys the team. — 00:32:00
  • 2021-12-24 · How Much Money I Spend as a YouTuber (2021) — Ali's business spent $18,540 on travel in 2021, mostly a trip to Monaco with a videographer, Amber and Angus to film the Deep Dive podcast with Oliver Cookson, author of Bootstrap Your Life, who grew MyProtein from £500 to £350 million. — 00:19:05

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2020