We sit down with The Bucket List Family to talk about the ethics of having a family channel, selling their company to snapchat for 40 million, and landing a deal with Disney. 00:00 Who is the Bucket List Family? 01:28 Sleepwalking in Antarctica 07:09 What’s it like to have to film family vacations? 08:32 Selling his college startup to Snapchat 21:01 The origins of their YouTube channel 24:00 How to be so productive 27:45 Their passion for traveling 33:50 Getting DDoS’d by North Korea 40:58 Going on Sharktank and failing 42:30 When their YT channel started getting popular 46:30 Who’s their audience? 48:00 Commoditizing the aspirational life 49:27 Jessica’s book with National Geographic 52:14 The ethics and business of having kids on YouTube 1:04:04 Their first big travel deal 1:07:45 Crowdfunding $10million for a cartoon 1:18:10 Where does the Bucket List studio stand today? 1:24:18 Their deal with National Geographic 1:35:06 When will the Bucket List cartoon be made? 1:37:08 What they learned from negotiating multi-million dollar deals 1:40:15 The Bucket List business pie chart 1:43:20 What their team looks like 1:45:53 Family content on YouTube as a category 1:55:45 Colin and Samir’s bucket list items 1:59:30 Their kids’ relationship with money 2:02:40 Travel hacks 2:04:39 Representing themselves vs signing with an agent 2:09:00 Their future goals COLIN AND SAMIR’S NEWSLETTER 📫 90,000+ read our free newsletter that breaks down the business of creators. Sign up: https://bit.ly/publish-press ASK US A QUESTION ❔ We answer questions from creators every Sunday in our newsletter. Submit yours here: https://bit.ly/publish-creator-support LISTEN TO THE SHOW iTunes: https://apple.co/2K1pYhu Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2OnTmBC GET IN TOUCH 🌍 Our website: www.colinandsamir.com 🌍 Work with us: ColinandSamirTeam@unitedtalent.com JOIN OUR COMMUNITY 📡 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/colinandsamir 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/colinandsamir 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/ColinandSamir 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@colinandsamir ABOUT US We’re Colin and Samir, creators based out of Los Angeles California. We make videos about the creator economy, and the lessons we’ve learned over 10 years of being on YouTube. We also interview creators and try to get to the bottom of what’s working on YouTube and where the creator economy is headed.