After creating 1,000 videos in 1,000 days and amassing 12m followers on Facebook, Nas Daily achieved world fame & fortune & love in record time. I had the opportunity to meet the creator & founder of the world-famous 1-minute Nas Daily videos at the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem. His real name is Nuseir Yassin and this guy is just as cool in person as he is in his videos. Here are some of my favourite quotes from his workshop:

“I decided to buy a camera and a one way ticket out of New York to Nairobi, Kenya and I wanted my life to be as exciting as possible, to see as much of the world as possible and I‘m gonna summarize everything I that I see so that my 10 friends back in New York can see it. That’s it. I swear to god. My goal was my 150 friends back in New York that I cared about and I wanted them to see what I was seeing in Kenya. The rest of history.” 

“I never never wanted fame. I never thought it was possible for an Arab-kid.”

“Social capital is an amazing thing I highly recommend it to anybody. I recommend you get social capital and get rid of financial capital. Basically, it’s so much better to have a million friends around the world than a million dollars.”

“It’s all about trusting yourself.”

“There’s no such thing as an overnight success… To make a 1-minute video, it takes 10 hours a day, every day.”

“76-78 is average life expectancy in the United States. I’m 27 so I’m 36% done with life on average, which means I’m one-third dead… I wanna use the remaining 64% of my life in ways that I really enjoy and ways that I think are impactful.”

What’s coming up next for Nas? The Nas Daily Company, a new video production company for brands that want to get their messages out really fast and really well.