Agent 00 Once Used Student Loan Money To Buy A PC, Which Led To A Streaming Career That Made Him A Millionaire – AfroTech
Canadian-born streamer Agent 00 has forged his own lane.
At 12 years old, he begged his mother to buy him a Kodak camera, he said in a YouTube video. He started taking pictures of his loved ones, took part in video competitions, and even began editing Call of Duty montages.
He also started uploading NFL videos to a clip channel. One video in particular of Marshawn Terrell Lynch racked up 70,000 views, he said. That avenue came to a halt due to a copyright strike, he said during a live interview at the University of California, Berkeley, for the Microsoft Windows Campus Creator Tour.
“Then I had to find my own hustle,” he explained.
He started editing videos for others, providing commentary, and then sharing gaming content on YouTube, with NBA 2K putting him on the map.
“I played The Last of Us. I was really good at that. I had some good videos there. Anything from like Watch Dogs, Call of Duty, you know, and stuff like that. Eventually, I landed on NBA 2K,” he said during the live interview.
Agent 00 also noted that pursuing content creation required him to be resourceful, including using student loan money to invest in his dreams while in college.
“But back in the day, I had laptops, like whatever my mom would buy from me, but then eventually… So in Canada, we had like a student … I don’t know if I should say this, I had some loan money, man. I bought a PC and I grinded using that,” he told the audience.
Agent 100 decided to drop out of college but went on to amass millions of followers and diversify his content. On his YouTube page, he has 1.3 million followers, and on Twitch, 3.3 million. His content includes gaming, reaction videos, and excursions, some of which have taken him across the globe.
In a video, Agent 100 confirmed he is a multi-millionaire.
Advice To Creators
As for his advice to up-and-coming creators, at the Microsoft Windows Campus Creator Tour, he said, “Just treat it like something you care about. Compare with friends. Then when it comes to something that you know matters a lot, like organic growth on social, you just have to study it. You have to look at what worked, what didn’t work, compare. There are so many tools. There’s like infinite ways you could do it now and you just keep learning.”
