Ep 91How I Really Won $10 MILLION from Mr. Beast | Winner of Beast Games
Mr. Beast offers a coin flip: $100 million or zero. Would you take it?
Jeff Allen
How I Really Won $10 MILLION from Mr. Beast | Winner of Beast Games
with Jeff Allen
I always want to have more that I so that I can share more.
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Quotes
“I declared to the world what I want to do, and now I got to go do it.”
“After day three, it was like freedom.”
“I wasn't praying for an outcome per se. I was praying to connect.”
“It just helped me kind of look back at my life and kind of find all the beauty in the bumps.”
“I look at you know, couples counseling as either an antibiotic or a vitamin.”
“Jack does not have to take care of Lucas... He gets to be his brother.”
“We hit the home run. Now let's just get some singles and doubles.”
“It's a tool and how do you use it?”
Takeaways
- 1 Jeff Allen won Season 1 of Beast Games, MrBeast's competition show with 1,000 contestants, taking home $10 million (about half after taxes, the host noted, before planning).
- 2 He entered to raise awareness of his son Lucas's rare genetic brain disorder, creatine transporter deficiency (CTD), and to fund research. A treatment for a rare disease can cost $40-50 million.
- 3 He grew up middle class in Ohio. His father, a dry-cleaning equipment salesman, worked odd jobs to buy rental properties that helped pay for school, college and his sisters' weddings.
- 4 He spent two decades in medical device sales, starting on all commission.
- 5 Raised Catholic, he began studying Torah after Lucas's diagnosis. He brought a prayer book and a Chumash to the show and prayed more than ever.
- 6 The hardest challenge was being locked in a room until one of four friends chose to leave; he didn't eat for a day and a half afterward.
- 7 A strict NDA meant he couldn't tell even his parents he'd won for about five months, which brought stages of elation, doubt and 'what now?'
- 8 Most messages after the win were well-wishes. The requests for money came mostly from strangers, some asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- 9 His plan: set aside taxes, give through a likely private foundation, set up a special needs trust for Lucas and save for his older son's college.
- 10 His wife, the child of immigrants, taught him to be frugal while spending on what matters. He calls money a spiritual tool to be a good steward of.
- 11 He says he would have given up his spot on the show for an hour with Elon Musk to discuss CTD research - he wanted to 'receive for the sake of sharing.'
- 12 AI and growing interest in creatine make him hopeful: the goal is a child diagnosed with CTD at birth and treated within a week.