It’s Never Too Late to Start Your YouTube Career

Rick Beato figured he was onto something when the first music video he posted online went viral and got 22 million views (it featured his young son Dylan showing off preternaturally perfect pitch). He was in his mid-fifties, with a long career behind him as a college professor and music producer. A millennial-age intern encouraged him to put himself in more videos and start a YouTube channel, but Mr. Beato wasn’t sure.

“My first thought was, nobody’s gonna watch an old, white-haired guy on YouTube,” Mr. Beato recalls.

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