MrBeast lost tens of millions on Beast Games despite Amazon's $100 million budget

In brief: If you lost tens of millions of dollars on something, you'd likely spend most of your life regretting it. But not when you're a multi-millionaire (or billionaire) like Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast. He's admitted that Amazon's Beast Games cost him tens of millions of dollars of his own money, despite having a budget of more than $100 million. Beast Games broke a lot of records. In addition to paying out the largest cash prize in game show history, $10 million, the 50 million viewers it attracted during its first month made it Amazon's most watched unscripted series ever. The prize money for the overall winner – there were a lot of big cash prizes given away before the final episode – was supposed to be $5 million, but a contestant gambled on a coin flip to double it. The extra $5 million came from the YouTube star's own pocket – it seems he thought nobody would risk flipping the coin and being eliminated if they lost. "It was not a good financial decision to make Beast Game ... Read full article.