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My advice is controversial because it goes against the traditional advice most creators share which is usually limited to building an audience or a following. I won't touch on this: even more, I'd caution making audience building your main end goal.
There are exceptions to the "bootstrapped business" concept, though very few. YouTube creator Marina Mogilko has taken a $1.7M VC investment in return for 5% of her creator earnings for 30 years. She'll likely use this money to invest in expanding her YouTube and other offerings by hiring more support: just like a business would. Her setup is closer to a one-person VC-funded business.
Many of the traditional "creators" try to make a living purely off social media. They're the YouTubers who post videos several times a week, running sponsored videos. The Instagrammers with millions of followers doing the same. Many of these people ineviatebly either burn out, or lose their income stream as The Algorithm starts showing their content less.
A much better model for the "sustainable creator" is creating on the side of the one-person business. Basically, focus most of your energy running your business which makes money, and create some related content to this business.
While many aspiring creators are dreaming of audiences of millions of followers, I suggest looking at these more grounded examples. Build a business that generates revenue, and use creator tools and social media as a tool to help market this business, and not as a means to an end.
What is worth noting about Ali is he decided early on that he will run a profitable, but not one-person business, and hired staff accordingly. Not all creators are one-person businesses. In fact, the most successful creators have large teams working with them in the background: except most of them are not as transparent about this as Ali is.
There is no shortage of success stories from people who seem to be successful "creators." I know plenty of people who have the right "vanity" metrics, but lack a meaningful business behind it. Even amongst the people who are perceived to be successful as "creators," only a subset of them have a sustainable business.
Thanks to Loue Bacaj for reviewing this post and offering feedback. Louie quit his Director of Engineering job in Big Tech to start his creator journey which he regularly tweets about. I thoroughly enjoyed his Timeless Career Advice course which is unfiltered advice for software engineers and engineering managers.
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