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A (0:00)
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B (0:54)
Thanks for joining another episode of Very first win. I'm your host, Robert Hilmer, founder of Goanna Capital. Today, I'm probably more excited than usual. I'm a little more energetic than usual. I opened up the calendar this morning, and I'm very pleased to have Gary Vaynerchuk here. Gary, how you doing?
A (1:09)
I'm good, brother. Thank you so much. I'm humbled by. I know how passionate you were to make this happen, and that's always flattering to me, and so I'm happy to be here.
B (1:17)
I did email you 215 times.
A (1:21)
Is that the actual number?
B (1:23)
No, I don't know. It was more than that, actually.
A (1:26)
Nice. All right, go ahead. I know we don't have a lot of time. Fire away. How do I help your amazing audience?
B (1:32)
So look, I think one thing that's often overlooked is someone's very first win and how they got it done. What did they learn? Why do they remember it? And how you can talk to our audience about that. Just what do you remember as an important milestone in your life that really got shit going for you?
A (1:53)
Dude, I'm so pumped with you. I've talked about this very infrequently, and as you were asking the question, it lit up like a Christmas tree in my brain. And I'm gonna go into detail. I know my very first actual win that is the foundation of who I am right this second. In eighth grade, me and John Cherchak and Jason Riker went to the Phillipsburg mall to buy a table for a baseball card show. And we had no idea how much the table would cost to set up on Saturday. And Sunday at the Phillipsburg Mall. Even though the show was Friday and Saturday and Sunday, we had school on that Friday a couple weeks later, so we couldn't do that. Maybe we could go at night, but I couldn't. So, da da, da. We're driving to the mall, and we all agree that if it's more than 50 bucks a table, we're not doing it, because that's crazy. And remember, with inflation, everything. This is rural New Jersey. 89. Like, 50 bucks was a lot of money. Like, for kids that are listening, a thousand is what it felt like. All right, we get to the mall. We're asking some of the mall people, where's the baseball card dealer for this show that we were supposed to meet? Cause we knew he was there. Cause they were setting up for another show. And we found him. This enormous man comes out. I'm talking £350, t shirt covering half his belly, like out of a fucking movie. I mean, I'm 4 foot 4 in eighth grade, right? And we go, how much is the table? And he goes, 150 bucks. And we've got one left, and it's not in a great location. I'll be straight with you boys. Before he says, you boys. I say, we'll take it. He shakes my hand, he walks away. I don't know if anyone has ever looked at me with more disgust than John Cherchak and Jason Riker at that moment. To this day, I'm all who I am. You know, who I am now. So it makes sense that I did that. But that night, an hour later, when I was home, I was shitting my pants. I'm like, we're gonna lose all this money. This was so stupid. Like, I was. I was 14. I was 13. We go do the show at 9am the mall opens at 11.30am because we all had our own cards. We all shared a table. At 11:30am I have sold $200 in trading cards and made $150 in profit. My life has never been the same. That was it, brother. That was my first win. My father, who was like, really not. I talk about this a lot, was not around a whole lot. I caught him the night before, and to his credit, he said, you're gonna lose this money, but you're gonna learn. And I remember that very vividly. But I did not lose. And at that point, you know how a shark can sense one drip of blood in the ocean from, like a drillion miles away? That morning in New Jersey, Phillipsburg, New Jersey, which is really Pennsylvania, it's by Easton, Pennsylvania. That morning in that mall in 1989 was the fucking moment of my life. In hindsight, haven't thought about it in a long time, but that was my first win. That's when I knew who I was and I'd become that person.