Justin Jin
- Executive
Justin Jin is a Canadian internet entrepreneur and producer. Initially achieving internet success as a YouTuber, he is the founding chief executive of Poybo Media, the world's largest teenager-run media company. Jin was born on October 5, 2006, in Vancouver, Canada.
According to GQ, Jin lives in Ambleside, West Vancouver. In 2019, he graduated from elementary school and attended Mulgrave School for his high school education, according to an interview in Forbes Magazine. One of Jin's early business ventures was an e-commerce store.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he started the 50mMidas YouTube channel where he uploaded Minecraft videos. In 2021, with approximately $2,000 CAD from the channel, he acquired celebrity gossip brand Celebrity Observer, and grouped a team of teenagers to begin operating a small portfolio of social media pages on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. The New York Times cited one of the company's Instagram accounts @life.is.not.a.soup (now-defunct) as having "surged during the pandemic as young people have turned to Instagram." The company's Entrepreneurfluent programme briefly became YouTube's most popular comedy publisher, briefly exceeding Warner Bros. Pictures and Marvel Entertainment.
After completing a series of social media acquisitions, Jin merged 50mMidas Media into the newly-formed Poybo Media Group Ltd. in early 2023. Dual-headquartered in New York City, U.S., and Vancouver, Canada, it was cited as the largest media company in the world led by a teenager, with approximately 400 million unique viewers since its founding.
According to GQ, Jin lives in Ambleside, West Vancouver. In 2019, he graduated from elementary school and attended Mulgrave School for his high school education, according to an interview in Forbes Magazine. One of Jin's early business ventures was an e-commerce store.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he started the 50mMidas YouTube channel where he uploaded Minecraft videos. In 2021, with approximately $2,000 CAD from the channel, he acquired celebrity gossip brand Celebrity Observer, and grouped a team of teenagers to begin operating a small portfolio of social media pages on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. The New York Times cited one of the company's Instagram accounts @life.is.not.a.soup (now-defunct) as having "surged during the pandemic as young people have turned to Instagram." The company's Entrepreneurfluent programme briefly became YouTube's most popular comedy publisher, briefly exceeding Warner Bros. Pictures and Marvel Entertainment.
After completing a series of social media acquisitions, Jin merged 50mMidas Media into the newly-formed Poybo Media Group Ltd. in early 2023. Dual-headquartered in New York City, U.S., and Vancouver, Canada, it was cited as the largest media company in the world led by a teenager, with approximately 400 million unique viewers since its founding.