Virtual Farmer Purchases Land IRL - Grant Hilbert

Podcast Season 3 Episode 356
Gaining a million subscribers to your YouTube channel is no easy task. Grant Hilbert has crossed that threshold and gone beyond it with his channel, The Squad.

Gaining a million subscribers to your YouTube channel is no easy task. Grant Hilbert has crossed that threshold and gone beyond it with his channel, The Squad. What started as posting videos of him playing a virtual farming simulator has turned enough profit to launch his farming career with the purchase of land and equipment. Hilbert has stuck to his digital ways and is documenting the process. He talks about the biggest challenges in going from virtual to IRL farming. 

 



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