My fallback plan was to link up with my other friends at the University of Pennsylvania. So I was working around as I could and got really close a few times that ultimately fell short. I basically had to go back to grad school and then get a PhD in order to get a lot of these jobs. I got really close to the job I wanted, but I’m competing with Ph.D. I wanted to move to California, but unfortunately, at that time after graduation, I didn’t get accepted. My dream was to then work for Uber or some type of self-driving car company, or some other type of robotics where I could practice my degree. We started dating towards the end, and were real close to graduation when she got her dream job in Silicon Valley working at LinkedIn. I was in college when I met my girlfriend, Lizzy Capri, who I do YouTube with. Tubefilter: What happened after college? Did you put your degree to work?ĬS: From there, it was actually a pretty big turning point in my life. Science and physics were just so fascinating to me and I’m a real nerd for math, so I went with computer science and robotics, and graduated with a degree in computer engineering and computer programming for robotics. Then, when it came to school, I went to college at Carnegie Mellon, where I started as a physics major. And we could just kind of create an environment in the backyard where me and my friends would come over every day after school. We had some fun toys, or if we didn’t have them, I would go out of my way to build them. We would be in the backyard, swimming or doing go-karts. My friends were a big part of my life, I was always inviting them over to my house. It was always kind of me and my friends outside doing a bunch of fun stuff. Tubefilter: Tubefilter: So for those who might not know you, tell us who you are! Where are you from? What did you do before starting a YouTube channel?Ĭarter Sharer: My name is Carter Sharer, I grew up in northern Virginia, and my whole life I loved building things. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

We’ll let him tell you all about it below. When he launched his channel in 2017, it was an act of high-risk-maybe-high-reward commitment that involved leaving his ultracompetitive engineering job and giving himself one year to make it on YouTube.

Sharer says his videos are meant to replicate the feel of his own childhood, when every long summer day was spent in the backyard with his best friends, pranking one another or building their own go-karts.īut make no mistake: though Sharer’s videos are meant to feel like child’s play, getting to this point in his content career has been no easy task. Within the last month alone, he’s built a giant RC car (1.7 million), built an underwater house (2.7 million) and lived in it for 24 hours straight (2.1 million), spent 24 hours on a jet-ski (1.9 million), and done 24 different dares in 24 hours (1.8 million).

He’s gotten up close and personal with the king of the jungle (to the tune of 17 million views), built a giant LEGO house and paid the last person to leave it $10,000 (29 million views), and constructed the “world’s tallest” trampoline tower (11 million). Now Sharer and his bicoastal creator collective Team RAR ( Rare and Ridiculous) say they’re “on the cusp of the next big thing.” With that in mind, Tubefilter rang him up for an in-depth rundown of what it was like to build his own company in the ever-shifting landscape of content creation.įor those unfamiliar with Sharer, he’s known for being a prolific producer of action-packed stunts and MrBeast-style “last to…” challenges. Subscribe for daily Tubefilter Top Stories Subscribe

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