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Everything about Fuze III, the creator who founds a company per problem

He needed sponsors, so he founded an agency. He needed Minecraft builds, so he founded a studio. He needed his shop managed, so he founded a logistics company. Every recurring annoyance became a business — and several of them now sell to people other than him.

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Real name
Julien Guichon
Born
October 1998
Channels
3.12M · 751K · 544K
Companies
FUZE III, Fuzetrust
In progress
Recube, PokeIsland
Net worth
Not public

What sets him apart: he publishes his numbers, including the bad ones. "I stupidly lost €400,000" and "Paladium is doing badly and it's my fault" are titles of his own videos. This profile draws as much on his filed accounts as on what he says himself.

A company for every problem

It's the thread running through his whole story, and it's the most transferable part of it. Every time a difficulty recurs, he sets up an entity to handle it — then sells that to others.

His sponsorships were badly managed
Rather than joining an existing agency, he co-founds one in late 2022 with Hugo Petit. It now represents around fifteen creators for a 20% commission, and had announced 113 campaigns worth about a million euros in its first year alone.
He was paying freelancers for his builds
His Minecraft videos constantly needed maps, builds and mini-games. So he takes part in creating a studio, which now works for Renault, Fnac, Crédit Agricole and Xbox — no longer just for him.
His shop was costing him time
Stock, orders, shipping, after-sales. In 2025 he takes part in setting up an entity that handles merchandising for around thirty creators. His own shop now goes through it.
His profits were sitting idle
A holding company created in 2022, with 523,000 euros of capital, which centralises his stakes and lets him reinvest without taking the money out as personal income. A property company follows in 2025, whose name comes from the Paladium ore.

The mechanism is always the same: an internal need, a team built to meet it, then that team turned into a company invoicing third parties. Lucien Cupif applies exactly this reasoning in the car world, right down to buying the factory that makes his clothing.

His path, step by step

  1. A video a day, while studying

    He posts under a first handle from the age of twelve or thirteen, then adopts the one he's known by. During his computing degree near Paris, he keeps a daily pace — and at one point reaches more than 30,000 euros a month in income.

  2. 2015: Paladium

    A Minecraft server with its own economy, items and microtransactions. The project becomes a real business: salaried developers, designers, support, infrastructure, and eventually its own hardware hosted in Rennes.

  3. Slow, steady growth

    A million subscribers in 2019, two million in 2021, three after that. Less spectacular than some rises, but without the drop-off that often follows rapid explosions.

  4. He splits his audience in three

    His main channel moves towards entertainment, a second takes over all the gaming, a third talks about money and the business behind the scenes. Three audiences, three algorithms, three separate ad inventories.

  5. September 2025: Recube

    He brings Paladium together with NationsGlory alongside Romain Darbas, in a joint entity on equal shares. Around twenty people gathered in Montpellier, with shared servers and teams. He takes strategy, his partner operations.

  6. September 2026: PokeIsland

    He takes over a small abandoned Minecraft server inspired by the Pokémon universe, and documents everything: the figures before the purchase, the improvements, the launch, the results. The exact legal structure of the deal isn't public.

What his accounts really say

His main company files its accounts, so his figures can be held up. They say something nobody points out.

His revenue has been falling since 2022
1.37 million euros in 2022, then 1.09 million in 2023, then 949,000 in 2024. A thirty per cent drop in two years, which the pages about him never mention.
And yet the company is solid
238,000 euros in net profit in 2024, around a quarter of revenue. At the end of 2024: 1.51 million in equity, 1.15 million in cash, and barely 7,000 euros of financial debt. A business shrinking without becoming fragile.
These amounts are not his net worth
They are a company's assets, and they stay in the company. On top of that come stakes in several other entities, whose percentages and value are unknown. Adding all of it up to infer personal wealth would be wrong.
That revenue isn't only advertising
The same company carries the videos, the running of Paladium and merchandise sales. Reading YouTube income into it would be a mistake — all the more so since he explains he took brand deals from around 10 to nearly 50% of his creator income.

His net worth therefore can't be quantified, and the estimates circulating — two, five, ten million — rest on nothing. Millionaire is very plausible given the companies and the property. A precise amount is not. The same pitfall turns up with Tibo InShape, whose company profit gets confused with personal wealth.

Paladium wasn't the cash machine people imagine

This is the most counter-intuitive point of his story, and he says it himself. The server was enormously popular — its community space still has nearly 89,000 members — but its profitability stayed low. Development, servers, salaries and management absorbed most of what the in-game purchases brought in.

He even considered selling the project. The answer he found was neither selling nor abandoning it: bringing Paladium and NationsGlory into a joint entity to share developers, infrastructure and management. Each server keeps its name and its community; it's the costs that merge.

There's a lesson there that goes beyond gaming: an enormous audience doesn't make a project profitable. A community of tens of thousands of people can quite easily cost more than it brings in, and it's the cost structure that decides, not the popularity.

Three useful clarifications

He no longer runs his agency

He stepped down as chairman of the entity that manages his sponsorships in late 2024. He remains its historic co-founder and a partner in it, but he no longer runs it. The distinction matters when you read "Fuze's agency".

The bar isn't his

He invested in a bar in Montpellier whose business was bought for around 170,000 euros, but he isn't its legal director. It's a stake, not ownership — and he has publicly given his verdict on it in a video.

He publishes his failures

Losing 400,000 euros, admitting a project is doing badly through his own fault, publicly wondering whether he'll go bust. That transparency is rare at this audience size, and it's what makes his figures usable. Marc Lou applies the same rule to his thirty-six projects.

Common questions

What is Fuze III's net worth?

It isn't public. His main company showed around 1.51 million in equity and 1.15 million in cash at the end of 2024, with very little debt. But those amounts belong to the company, not to him, and his stakes in other entities can't be valued from outside.

How much does YouTube earn him?

Impossible to isolate: the same company carries the videos, the server and the merchandise. What we do know is that he took brand deals from around 10 to nearly 50% of his creator income — in other words, platform advertising is now only half the story.

Why is his revenue falling?

It went from 1.37 million in 2022 to 949,000 in 2024. The accounts don't explain it, and it's best not to speculate. What they do show is a company that stays profitable and carries very little debt despite that decline.

Why three different channels?

Because three distinct audiences don't have the same expectations or the same advertising value. Entertainment, gaming and entrepreneurship live better apart than stacked on one channel, where every change of subject drives away part of the subscribers.

What is happening with Paladium?

It continues, inside the joint entity set up with NationsGlory in September 2025. The two servers keep their identity but share teams, infrastructure and tools — including a shared launcher and account.

What's worth watching right now?

The PokeIsland takeover. It's the first time he has bought an existing project rather than creating one, and he is documenting the operation publicly. The result will show whether his know-how transfers to an asset he didn't build.

Build your own audience

A niche, an audience, then revenue you turn into assets: the principle behind these profiles is set out step by step in the member area.