How Much Money I've Made As A Software Engineer, Entrepreneur, And YouTuber
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Over the last 6 years, I've worked as a software engineer at Google and Facebook, I've been an entrepreneur as the CEO and co-founder of AlgoExpert, and I've grown this UA-cam channel as a UA-camr. All 3 of these endeavors have been sources of income for me, and in this video, I reveal exactly how much money I've made from each of them.
AlgoExpert: www.algoexpert...
SystemsExpert: www.systemsexp...
MLExpert: www.algoexpert...
FrontendExpert: www.frontendex...
ProgrammingExpert: www.programmin...
BlockchainExpert: www.algoexpert...
My LinkedIn: / clementmihailescu
My Twitter: / clemmihai
My Instagram: / clement_mihailescu
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We appreciate your transparency a lot, thanks Clément!
Yes, lol
I’m really glad you do!
I'm on a different path but Clement, your story and your transparent videos like this one have really inspired me over the last two years. I'm in my mid-40's and I've been gainfully employed as a software engineer for one year as of today. It's the best thing I've ever done for myself. Thank you, sir.
He doesn't care about you, he's a multimillionaire.
@@cannotwest That's a run-on sentence. If you want to be a jerk, at least have proper grammar.
@@jlushefski I don't want to be a jerk, just anonymous feedback. Wouldn't thank any UA-cam entrepreneur who doesn't care about me personally, what's the point of that. What's wrong with the grammar?
@@jlushefski He'll see it and probably think about it. I just don't get the point in thanking mega-youtubers and multimillionaires in the comments on their social - they get rats a** about you and it looks weak and lame. It's just my thought process, nothing more.
@@cannotwest I don't care about you.
Congrats man, happy for your success!
Very Inspiring! Thanks for being so transparent
just cause you made the video , I smashed the like button as soon as you told me. Even before watching I know that you are not the guy to beat around the bush & will probably reveal some really valuable insights. Video is appreciated, Thanks.
😂 Haha, appreciate it! I hope I didn’t disappoint!
“During a gold rush, sell shovels.” is literally what this is.
Hey Clement, happy that your project turned out to be this big. I remember in fullstack academy in 2017 (1702 here) when you did your presentation, I would have not guessed 5 years in the future I would be using it on a weekly basis to stay proficient lol. Great job on sticking to your idea and thank you for providing a great tool.
Haha, that’s awesome to hear! And wow, 1702. That must have been around mid 2017? Those were really the early days of AlgoExpert! Presenting at Fullstack Academy was one of the first big boosts we got as far as marketing and sales are concerned.
You and algoexpert have impacted my life as a software engineer in ways that cannot be quantified by money, and that adds greatly to your worth. Thanks alot man!
It’s always great to hear about the actual impact that AlgoExpert has had on software engineers! Thank you for sharing!
Clement you're back! less gooo!
Love open videos like this around finances. Great job!
Amazing transparency Clement! I think if you were able to make a video about the costs of starting an online startup like AlgoExpert, that would be super helpful too for any of us who are interested in going into web entrepreneurship.
Will do! Also planning on releasing a general “roadmap to building a multi-million-dollar online business” video soon!
I was 13 years old when I started watching your videos.
Since then, I've spent 2 years as a software engineer, earned a prestigious cloud engineering certification, and have now been working directly with the U.S. government. Just wanted to say that your videos gave me hope. Especially at an age where not many tech opportunities exist. Thank you, Clément. ♥
I’m a full stack web developer could you help or advise me get a job , I started when I was 14.5 now I’m 17
Happy to see you doing well, brother
Great growth on AlgoExpert, would love to see a video on how you grew the company from evaluating the idea in the then market to now. Best of luck in the future!
Thank you for being transparent. You have helped so many of us get into tech, I remember when I was watching your videos back in 2021 non-stop. I really feel like getting into tech was "best" before 2017. It's obviously never too late but this year particularly has been very tough for Software Engineers and aspiring Software Engineers. For those watching this video, know that Clement's story is very inspirational but he isn't the norm. As you can tell, the guy is really smart, eloquent, and business savvy. He also attributes some of his success to "luck". He worked hard to get that luck but nonetheless, he was lucky in many ways. Clement, do you think of how things would've been had you gone to REPL or Lyft?
It’s very hard to say, but my guess is they would have been quite different, particularly if I had gone to work at Replit. Because, in that case, I likely would have never gotten so “into” coding interviews, and I wouldn’t have had the Google catalyst to really push AlgoExpert.
It would have been a different universe! Who knows where I’d be now? 😅
Congratulations on your success. You deserve it!
During a gold rush, the guy selling shovels gets rich.
I only graduated college 6 years ago as a computer scientist and its wild to think how your career progressed compared to mine by taking risks and working for the likes of Google. I work at Dell but not in the states, and my career really hasn't matured at all. Scraping just over 55k euro, have a family, mortgage under the belt and it's a real struggle. Dell rarely promote anyone and its incredibly frustrating when you give so much time and effor to the work, but that's the kind of company they are. On my team literally every single person is long over due a promotion to senior or principle developer. One thing I've learned is that loyalty punishes you financially. I dream daily of starting my own company, but just need to figure out what!
His story isnt common
I feel for you, and I realize that it’s much easier said than done, but if your current situation with Dell isn’t the best for you (and it sounds like it isn’t, from what you’ve said), then you should do everything you can to change it! Move to another company! Take the leap and build your company! Best of luck. 💪
Make your own mate. Do it. Life is too short to care that much about loyalty to a company. Make a business. Pass it into the kids. But do it while staying at Dell until you don’t have to.
Clement is always my inspiration 👊🏼
It always amaze me how much they pay someone fresh out of college in the USA.
I know people with almost a decade of experience that needs years to make what you did in your first year.
Do these people also pay 4500$ a month for a 2 room apartment?
@@johanneswerner7649 How much does that really matter?
There are a lot of people working remote. Some not even in the USA.
On the other hand, a lot of people work for those same companies, but receive a fraction of a junior makes.
It should matter more how much they bring to the table and not where they live.
You got my (subscribe) button smashed.
I am another SW Eng. older than you for sure, I don't do algorithms, rather more Linux based services (nav / comm / map) for vehicles and I support the products overseas, but I loved your approach convincing people how to think and where to go. I wish I could find someone like you to team with.
Hey, let's team up and build something new and cool:)
Thank you Clement for sharing this data!
Congrats… wishing you much more success ahead but don’t forget your mee time in pursuit of money!
So with chat GPT doing our algo / coding questions, you are back to You Tube as your only income source :)
On my second year with algoexpert. I don’t use it as much as I would like due to time constraints but when I do use it, my problem solving skills do get better in leetcode. And when dec comes around I’ll purchase it again 😎
Challenge yourself to complete every single question on the platform!
@@clem naturally… I like to listen to yours and Tim’s explanations of the problems as it give different perspectives. This has made me realize that there are so many ways of answering the problems.
Thanks for sharing this, and congratulations for the consistent hardwork. Its really encouraging
Congratulation ! Great success story 💪🏻
at first i was gonna clown how u were desperate for views but this video was actually transparent and inspiring
I'm not going to lie I felt like I'm moving too slowly as a software engineer but your videos motivated me to keep going.
Kudos to you, Clément. You are a good guy, I appreciate your transparency!
IRS: thank you for the detailed report
Congrats on your success!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you! 🎉
I swear everytime I watch one of your videos that monitor in the background keeps getting bigger and bigger
Amazing & inspirational!
Good stuff Clem!
i think it would be awesome if you made a video on how you became a lifestyle entrepreneur, how to gain user traction, tech stack, employees etc
🎉🎉 big money boys
I love people who as transparent and it encourages me.
Really inspirational! Keep doing a good work
Very inspirational journey, thanks for sharing Clément!
This is awesome Clement, Thanks for sharing.
Over $1M/year?? But you're still in the same room with blank walls. Keeping it real!
By far my favourite UA-cam! You motivate me so much especially as a junior Full-Stack Engineer, I aspire to be like you one day!
My take away is: don't become a software engineer, teach people how to get jobs as software engineers 😅
Sell shovels when people are digging for gold
Congrats! Thanks for being transparent
damn man! Really happy for you!
Nearly 10% likes from viewings speak for the content itself❤ Appreciate your sharing and inspiration as always🎉
Inspiring Clement!
12:59 if u dont want to watch thi hole video
Clement is back with his Transparent hat
Thanks for the video, really inspiring!
Huge money 💸🥳🤯
I know it takes many sleepless nights
How you know?
@@EDS432 because it is very hard to compete in edu industry and just 3 yr earning more than million dollars is not a small thing
That's honestly very inspiring and impressive. Shows that hard work pays off.
Great job and glad that you're still here educating people even though you don't technically have the need to do it.
Thanks.We need more challenge and code interview like you did couple of years ago
Crazy you've made anywhere from 2-5x the LIFETIME income of your average person in the US in just 6 years. Good for you
Thx for sharing this content with us. Appreciate it.
Any plans to create a new business or app? Thanks for the information! Inspiring.
Instead of showing the amount in the table, you should put the rate per month or per hour and in parenthesis you could put the yearly amount.
And congratulations by the company and by sharing, this is amazing! You rocks =)
Well $100/hour is about $200,000/year so $500/hour is about $1m/year. I don't think he puts it since his wage would be a lot more variant at different times of the year.
@@JacobAuthier The reason I say to put by hour is because there were year that he work part of it only.
So we could compare years better.
For instance if he worked only 3 months in the first year, this would be easier to see how much was the raise from year to year.
Hi - could you update the system expert please 🥺?
Great video
And i now know
Who is the creator of Algoexpert
I have seen that ad so many times 😂👍
Nothing beats taking the risk to walk away from seeming success only to make unbelievable success. Your courage to quit Google/Facebook only shows that risk taking with hard work will always prevail.
2021, AlgoExpert: 1,000 "nice"
Ok, but when's the next flash sale on algo expert full package?
nicely done my man! Very inspiring to see your success.
cool video. thank you for being transparent!
Absolutely love this video man, super motivational 👍👍
Also it's funny how Tech Lead and Joma completely fucked up their interview training site. You did it right.
Definitely inspirational. Super thanks 🙏
Thanks Clem. This is so inspirational.
Do you have any statistics on how many sales you get from this channel and how many from paid ads?
Great motivative video.
Curious to see how your relationship changes as you earn more :)
The transparency is appreciated
Hair looking good, keep it up
Bro... Mans is making that coin. But the work behind this is heavy.
I m happy for you !
🎉
This is pretty inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Goddamn, Clément. so motivational, would you do some lessons learned in the process?
Will do another video sharing some lessons soon!
The figures from your company is the money that you actually paid yourself or just gross revenue that the business made?
Good stuff bro
5,107,000 total for your comfort😊
love that breakdown
Great video and really inspirational!
Found one small typo at 5:15
2018: $216,000 + $15,000 = $231,000, you put $232,000
Did the excel formula (SUM) not work for that one? Same thing for 2020 and 2022. They are all even years as well...
The values are rounded
Super interesting thanks Clem
Motivational it is!😊
Money is like ram to Google Chrome, more is never enough 😂
😂
Thanks for the video sir
Thank you for this info. It is actually inspiring.
Liked your Transperancy
Thanks for the information, you are motivated me
Inspiring 🙂
Great progressing
This was a great video, thanks for sharing. Now I'm wondering wth I'm doing with my life, gotta up the grindset up a notch or two I guess.
My takeaway: Entrepreneurship > Corp Life 🤣
That's a solid takeaway if you ask me. 😜
Yeah
I agree
Great video! How did you make such a huge jump in pay at Google between 2017 and 2018?
This is inspiring. Thank you.
Thank you for the transparency
Great video, as you said.. It's inspirational! Keep going! Regards from Brazil =)
Thanks!
First, i used algoexpert and system expert and I can’t recommend it enough! Thise 2 products git me in Uber and now PlayStation!
Second, thanks for sharing these numbers. It was very motivational, especially because i am working on a side project and about to onboard my first early adopter 🎉 wish you the best!
So inspiring, thank you!
Awesome content, keep it up!
I have a question if you don't mind, you say you made yourself about a million on AlgoExpert, but what about the whole company? What was the total revenue?
+ Congratulations to the future bride and groom.