Ali outsources his video editing after two years of editing his own videos
story · status: told 10× · last event: retold (2025-07-22) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali builds a team for his online business · Ali reads The E-Myth Revisited in 2019 and it changes how he runs his business (2019)
About: GlaxoSmithKline
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-28 | told | In June 2019, after two years as a solo creator, Ali decided to outsource the editing of his videos to a freelancer. | How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time 00:05:36 |
| 2022-08-09 | retold | Ali outsourced his editing about three years ago and wishes he had done it sooner: after two years of doing all of it, his editor Christian now frees his time for writing content and his book, fun, family and friends. | How I Make $4 Million Per Year - The CBM Framework 00:17:52 |
| 2022-12-16 | retold | Two years into his YouTube channel, Ali outsourced editing to Christian, which he calls amazing. | How I Failed in 2022 00:29:23 |
| 2023-03-22 | retold | For the first two years of his channel, 2017 to 2019, Ali did everything himself, scripting, filming and editing, until one of his mentors told him to outsource his video editing. | Why I Have 12 Full-Time Employees (as a YouTuber) 00:01:00 |
| 2023-05-07 | retold | Ali has not edited a video on his channel since around 2019: he edited all his own videos for the first two years, then, after reading The E-Myth Revisited and with a mentor's push, outsourced editing, which freed time for writing, research, family, friends and his health. | How I Started My YouTube Channel in My Spare Time 00:07:41 |
| 2023-10-06 | retold | Ali started outsourcing his editing two years into YouTube, after a failed first try and believing he enjoyed editing, when a mentor with several multimillion-dollar businesses told him to. | 9 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started YouTube 00:15:35 |
| 2024-07-16 | retold | Ali edited his own videos for two whole years before he outsourced editing, which he calls dumb; he wishes someone had told him to outsource it. | If I Started YouTube While Working Full-Time, I’d Do This 00:15:11 |
| 2024-10-04 | retold | Ali was spending about 10 hours a week on editing; his executive coach encouraged him to outsource it, and after two years of editing himself he did. | How to Start a YouTube Channel - Beginners Guide (2026) 00:08:07 |
| 2025-06-25 | retold | Rohan, who bought the business and became Ali's friend and mentor, asked why he still edited himself; Ali's $5-an-hour editor in the Philippines had not been good. | How I Made My First $1M at 26 - Every Step Explained 00:28:02 |
| 2025-07-22 | retold | In his first two years editing his own videos, Ali enjoyed editing for about two months, then made it fun again by trying new animations. | What 8 Years on YouTube Taught Me About Life 00:19:16 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-07-28 · How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time — Ali: Using Naval Ravikant's idea of an effective hourly rate, Ali put his own at around $30 an hour and saw that four to eight hours of editing per video was not the most value he could add to the business. (hedged) — 00:05:36
- 2021-07-28 · How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time — Ali found a freelance video editor on People Per Hour; this was game-changing, as the roughly 20 hours a week he had spent editing his own videos were gone. — 00:06:05
- 2023-03-22 · Why I Have 12 Full-Time Employees (as a YouTuber) — Ali was spending three to ten hours a week editing videos, so his first team member, Christian, was hired to free up his time. — 00:01:29
- 2023-05-07 · How I Started My YouTube Channel in My Spare Time — recommendation: Ali wishes someone had told him to edit his first 10 videos himself and then outsource editing; it took him two years to learn, and he wants Part-Time YouTuber Academy students to outsource before the two-year mark if they can afford it. — 00:09:23
- 2023-10-06 · 9 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started YouTube — Ali: Outsourcing his editing completely changed Ali's life and made the channel skyrocket, freeing the hours he had spent editing every evening after work as a doctor. — 00:15:35
- 2024-07-16 · If I Started YouTube While Working Full-Time, I’d Do This — Ali's editors take on average five days to edit one video for his main channel; when he edited his own videos it took him four to six hours a video. — 00:15:11
- 2024-10-04 · How to Start a YouTube Channel - Beginners Guide (2026) — Ali: About two and a half years into his channel, a man in his 40s who was an executive coach for GlaxoSmithKline recognised Ali in his scrubs outside the hospital. — 00:06:26
- 2025-06-25 · How I Made My First $1M at 26 - Every Step Explained — Ali: Pushed by Rohan, Ali hired Christian, who had emailed asking to be his editor, as his first editor; he stayed about four years, at first paid all the channel's income. — 00:28:57
- 2025-06-25 · How I Made My First $1M at 26 - Every Step Explained — Ali is glad he hired an editor: it freed his time for Skillshare classes, more videos and sponsorships, which took the business from 100K to 300K and then to 500K. — 00:28:57