His Sushi Burger received 50 million views – and launched the company

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Burger Sushi was never on the menu – that was what it was. Paul Ryu He said the fighting Las Vegas restaurant to stop her from the radar and make him exclusive. He should allow him and its creators, friends would immediately flood social media.

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A spicy tuna, crunchy rice rolls, arranged like a burger and stylized for feed. Within a few days there have been block lines and reporters from Callist and Food Network Calling. One woman drove from San Diego simply to try.

This one dish not only became viral. He launched the entire agency.

Before he hit the burger sushi, Ryu already had years of content under the belt. He published 1000’s of meals, after long days of sale he built loyal and juggling photo sessions. But to know how he got there, you will need to go back to the day his parents took him to Disneyland, and then leave him behind.

Ryu was 13 when he got here to the USA from Seoul. The journey was a lure. Behind the scenes, his parents raced through the clock. The mandatory military service of South Korea has tightened its principles for foreign students. Their solution was to send it early while they may still. After visiting the amusement park, they dropped him into a boarding school and returned home without him.

Ryu didn’t speak English and didn’t know the soul. He learned, watching, listening and imitating. This early insulation made him resourceful. This also made him unwavering.

Before he had a system on Instagram Ryu. Eat, shoot, post, repeat. This coherence turned into an opportunity. The possibility turned into results. And the results turned into oral. “After a sushi burger, I didn’t have to explain what I did,” he says. “People just called and said,” Do it. “

Today, the list of Paul Ryu customers appears like a Vegas energy list: Station casinosIN TAO group AND Flame group. When Influence of restaurants host Shawn Walchef He sat with him inside Hofbräuhaus las vegasIt was not only the location of filming. It was flexible. Hofbräuhaus is a customer. Like a wedding chapel through the city. Ryu didn’t come up with him. They got here to him.

“My whole company is coming,” he says. “Everything comes from work.”

His work philosophy is brutally easy. Publish quickly or real and stop pondering. “Everyone wants high -quality content,” he says. “But the quality comes from consistency and speed. If you don’t publish regularly, you don’t even reach the point where quality happens.”

That’s why the Ryu agency, (*50*)It only employs energetic creators – individuals who live and breathe content, not interns by pressing the buttons on Hootsuite. And every post, with every customer, appears live – without a schedule or shortcuts.

When the latest restaurant clients log in, Ryu tells them the same: he is not here to push promotions or design leaflets. He is here to search out this story. Maybe this is a secret component of the chef. Maybe this is a forgotten detail about how the dish is made. Whatever it is, it have to be honest. People can feel a leap from a mile distance.

During the interview, Walchef shared one of his presidents: Be Show, not promoting. Ryu caught fire. “I’m trying to say that,” says Ryu. This is a perfect opinion about the approach to the content.

This way of pondering helped his agency scale without sales. “You can’t help everyone,” says Ryu. “You must believe in the product. If we are not excited, we will not touch it.”

Seven years later, evidently someone was just starting. “I feel that I was late for the game,” he says. “But we just start.”

And in a city like Vegas there is at all times a different story to inform if you have speed to catch her.

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