How Much Money I've Made As A Software Engineer, Entrepreneur, And YouTuber

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 KZbin channel as a KZbinr. 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.io/clem
SystemsExpert: www.systemsexpert.io/clem
MLExpert: www.algoexpert.io/ml
FrontendExpert: www.frontendexpert.io/clem
ProgrammingExpert: www.programmingexpert.io/clem
BlockchainExpert: www.algoexpert.io/blockchain
My LinkedIn: / clementmihailescu
My Twitter: / clemmihai
My Instagram: / clement_mihailescu
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[@stefan.astrand]

Congrats man, happy for your success!

[@Kyle-rf5mb]

Love open videos like this around finances. Great job!

[@dustinrustick8450]

Congratulations on your success. You deserve it!

[@user-uk1bx9vm4o]

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.

[@clem]

😂 Haha, appreciate it! I hope I didn’t disappoint!

[@dabocousin]

We appreciate your transparency a lot, thanks Clément!

[@alisanan9090]

Yes, lol

[@clem]

I’m really glad you do!

[@vasileioskreouzis402]

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!

[@curtisg8399]

Clement you're back! less gooo!

[@NM-tk4kc]

Congrats… wishing you much more success ahead but don’t forget your mee time in pursuit of money!

[@anelm.5127]

Congratulation ! Great success story 💪🏻

[@Bukola1]

Very Inspiring! Thanks for being so transparent

[@Rocky-me7qh]

Clement is always my inspiration 👊🏼

[@armantavakoli7926]

Thank you Clement for sharing this data!

[@huslerbling]

Very inspirational journey, thanks for sharing Clément!

[@shekielmorris2261]

By far my favourite KZbin! You motivate me so much especially as a junior Full-Stack Engineer, I aspire to be like you one day!

[@JoaoDias-xe2gg]

Really inspirational! Keep doing a good work

[@angelleal3005]

This is awesome Clement, Thanks for sharing.

[@Moses_coder]

Thanks for sharing this, and congratulations for the consistent hardwork. Its really encouraging

[@0240tutor]

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.

[@user-rd7nu8gn4j]

Hey, let's team up and build something new and cool:)

[@kramerallensmith]

Happy to see you doing well, brother

[@BradenLehman]

Congrats! Thanks for being transparent

[@ivangerginov5648]

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.

[@BijanInsign]

Thx for sharing this content with us. Appreciate it.

[@onieltoledo8019]

Absolutely love this video man, super motivational 👍👍

[@adnanabbas.]

Thanks for the video, really inspiring!

[@rosendo3219]

cool video. thank you for being transparent!

[@dmitriymeh]

Definitely inspirational. Super thanks 🙏

[@luispalacios27]

Thank you for this info. It is actually inspiring.

[@mohamedlegtibi802]

Thanks.We need more challenge and code interview like you did couple of years ago

[@rokck_]

Thanks Clem. This is so inspirational.

[@ucretsiztakipci6612]

I love people who as transparent and it encourages me.

[@mingy7017]

Nearly 10% likes from viewings speak for the content itself❤ Appreciate your sharing and inspiration as always🎉

[@roywastaken]

Good stuff Clem!

[@Shubh_1QR]

Inspiring Clement!

[@ronakjain6377]

Your videos are truly inspirational. Loved your transparency.

[@mathgeeksrus9399]

This is pretty inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

[@MrNetsecure]

damn man! Really happy for you!

[@artfiltersai]

Thanks for the information, you are motivated me

[@davidauza2007]

Thank you for sharing this. It’s inspiring to me!

[@RideTheTeacups]

Congrats on your success!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@clem]

Thank you! 🎉

[@samiab6077]

nicely done my man! Very inspiring to see your success.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Amazing & inspirational!

[@AliAhmed63708]

Thank you for the transparency

[@aisjdijasijdajsd]

Roughly how different are the taxes for when you're working in G/F vs Algoexpert CEO? Are they roughly the same if both income is the same?

[@kishorkunal21]

Clement, why your AlgoExpert support never responds to any query ? I have asked several times whether the auto suggestion in code editor is not available or is there any way to enable it? Sorry may not be a right place to ask this, but can't help

[@gaetanherry]

Super interesting thanks Clem

[@carlosbido8881]

Great video, as you said.. It's inspirational! Keep going! Regards from Brazil =)

[@ahmedanwer6899]

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

[@BohdanTrotsenko]

This is golden. Thank you.

[@harispapadopoulos4295]

Hair looking good, keep it up

[@luyam9]

Any plans to create a new business or app? Thanks for the information! Inspiring.

[@abdoutech6861]

So inspiring, thank you!

[@Marcos32709]

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.

[@clem]

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.

[@rahulisgreat4911]

Great video And i now know Who is the creator of Algoexpert I have seen that ad so many times 😂👍

[@yt_abc3029]

The transparency is appreciated

[@nsuid7499]

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.

[@happilylivingtoday9885]

Do you have any statistics on how many sales you get from this channel and how many from paid ads?

[@raysash4300]

appreciate your transparency

[@GChief117]

This is inspiring. Thank you.

[@benfaizahamza]

I m happy for you ! 🎉

[@LuisMorales-yx8di]

Good stuff bro

[@timothychin1594]

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.

[@clem]

Will do! Also planning on releasing a general “roadmap to building a multi-million-dollar online business” video soon!

[@ahmedanwer6899]

at first i was gonna clown how u were desperate for views but this video was actually transparent and inspiring

[@user-ry7pu4tv5x]

thank you, this video motived me

[@intondiscott]

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 😎

[@clem]

Challenge yourself to complete every single question on the platform!

[@intondiscott]

@@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.

[@aliyektaie9123]

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!

[@test-tj3jk]

Loved the honesty

[@filipecotrimmelo7714]

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 =)

[@JacobAuthier]

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.

[@filipecotrimmelo7714]

@@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.

[@filipecotrimmelo7714]

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.

[@damiano4804]

Everything you are speaking about js before-taxes, am I correct?

[@dipanjanmandal1771]

Thanks for the video sir

[@tkdevlop]

Great progressing

[@rajankhunt7002]

Great motivative video.

[@dosirac8395]

Great video! How did you make such a huge jump in pay at Google between 2017 and 2018?

[@TheWesleysmd1990]

Definitely more inspirational than anything else

[@Rocky-me7qh]

Hi Clement will Android dev jobs open in Google?

[@giovannimonti9505]

love that breakdown

[@gdthegreat]

Liked your Transperancy

[@tkeo12]

So with chat GPT doing our algo / coding questions, you are back to You Tube as your only income source :)

[@CricketThomas]

🎉🎉 big money boys

[@jakariasami]

Clement is back with his Transparent hat

[@nyustdent]

great video!

[@wewonbro1620]

Inspiring 🙂

[@PartTim3Hobo]

I swear everytime I watch one of your videos that monitor in the background keeps getting bigger and bigger

[@anna_in_canada]

Very motivating video!

[@programmingloop7]

The figures from your company is the money that you actually paid yourself or just gross revenue that the business made?

[@deogratiusekodi3431]

Motivational it is!😊

[@kr4k3nn]

Hi - could you update the system expert please 🥺?

[@the_blackness]

Goddamn, Clément. so motivational, would you do some lessons learned in the process?

[@clem]

Will do another video sharing some lessons soon!

[@buteaufrancoisjr.3889]

So inspirational!!

[@BlockCylinder]

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.

[@cannotwest]

He doesn't care about you, he's a multimillionaire.

[@jlushefski]

@@cannotwest That's a run-on sentence. If you want to be a jerk, at least have proper grammar.

[@cannotwest]

@@jlushefski I don't want to be a jerk, just anonymous feedback. Wouldn't thank any KZbin entrepreneur who doesn't care about me personally, what's the point of that. What's wrong with the grammar?

[@cannotwest]

@@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.

[@BlockCylinder]

@@cannotwest I don't care about you.

[@theovdhd]

Thank you for sharing this

[@software-sage]

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...

[@Dan_1348]

The values are rounded

[@sebastiananderson8679]

You truly are a super entrepeneur. Massive props to you Clement!

[@dawizze1]

Seeing this is really motivating to keep going and continue my ideas and potential side business along with my software engineering salary l. Thank you for sharing!

[@midicine2114]

“During a gold rush, sell shovels.” is literally what this is.

[@Your-Average-Gym-Bro]

Curious to see how your relationship changes as you earn more :)

[@trblmkr5139]

Bro... Mans is making that coin. But the work behind this is heavy.

[@domkatbess322]

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!

[@clem]

It’s always great to hear about the actual impact that AlgoExpert has had on software engineers! Thank you for sharing!

[@afrodeveloper3929]

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?

[@clem]

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? 😅

[@anmiasm]

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!

[@Troglodyte2021]

I am glad that your hard work has been somehow rewarded. May you have a even huger success in the future!