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Gary Vaynerchuk
Before you go to the podcast, I've got a big announcement. I know several years ago a lot of you bought 12 books of 12 and a half to get the NFT, the book games NFT. I also know that a lot of people have dropped off on their journey with Veefriends, which is a massive mistake because what we're doing on Burn island and what we're doing on base with book games is remarkable. So you need to go to veefriends.comoldbooks with an S. You will go to that landing page and we will help you explain if you are trying to figure out where your NFTs are, how to bring them over to the website and how to start activating them so that you can start using them for all the incredible exchanges and draws and raffles and experiences that we're doing for people that actually own the book games. So please go to vfriends.comoldbooks where you can start your journey on reactivating your book games. Journey. This is the GaryVee audio experience. Let's fire away with questions. What's the best and worst thing to do in a family run business for Michelle? Michelle Bob, thank you so much for your purchase. Michelle. The best thing to do is understand that the money is secondary to the family time. The family time is over everything. Tommy Danger, thank you for the purchase. Family time over everything. Family time over everything. I regret nothing about the family time I've spent with AJ and my dad. The best thing you do is actually working with your family and your friends because you get meaningful time with them. Work takes up a lot of time. The worst thing you can do is the reverse. You choose money and ego over your family and it creates tension in your family. I highly recommend you don't do that. Those are definitely the two answers. Choosing love and your family over money is the best thing you do and choosing money over family is the worst thing you can do. Aloha, beautiful. Thank you for the purchase of the kids book. Yeah, it's about the money and ego, Charlie. The biggest issues I've ever had was not about the money. It was a little bit about respect. You know, I really struggled with my dad not acknowledging what I was doing, even though he thought he was. That becomes a friction and so you need to be very careful in family dynamics about that. I would watch out for that. Alright, let's keep answering questions everybody. Fire away with your question. Use question marks in the chat. What's your message for new entrepreneurs? Kamal it's much harder than you think. Don't let the people on social media fool you. There's nothing harder than being an entrepreneur. Somebody just texted me applying for a job at Veefriends that had a startup that I thought was remarkable, practical. He was a beast. He was in his 40s. I was stunned getting that text. They went out of business. That's how hard it is. So it's hard out here. How can I use being number one on Twitter next? What do I mean, number one? I need more clarity on that. Ozzy J.
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Audience Member / Participant
Someone asked, am I able to build a brand while I'm working for another company?
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Of course. It happens all the time. In fact, who here, of the 900 of you in the room, who here has heard of Liquid Death? The water? How many of you in this room have heard of Liquid Death? Say Liquid Death. How many of you have heard of Liquid Death? Say Liquid Death. It's gonna be a lot, right? I mean, it should be a lot, right? It's clearly everywhere. Jmez says the best. Everyone's saying Liquid Death. We can all agree that most of you've heard of it, right? Liquid Death, everybody was started by an employee of VaynerMedia. He was working at this company while he was working on building the brand and then quit. Asked me if I wanted to invest. I said yes. Thank God. Cause I'm a mensch. Yeah. Target Plumbing. Liquid Depth was started by an employee of my marketing company. That you're in the office of right now. You're in the office of VaynerMedia. Mike was at VaynerMedia and then the next thing he did was Liquid Death. So, yes. Can you build a brand while you're working a job? You sure can. But there's an example of a big version of it. So my friend is sad. Any advice? Floss. Get to the root cause. It's always insecurity. People are only sad when they're insecure or they have a negative perspective. They see negative versus light, or they fear other people's opinions or how they're gonna affect them. People are hurt out here. They're scared of people. They're scared of people. The reason I'm so extroverted is I'm not scared of people. They can't hurt me. And so a lot of you grew up insecure, and that's too bad. Someone asked, do you like sweets? I love sweets. I'm like, candy is a real problem for me. And baked goods. I love carbs. You give me a donut or a muffin, croissant and soft carbs you give me a soft. Like when the carbs. When the baked goods are soft, I'm finished.
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Audience Member / Participant
Like as opposed to hard.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Yeah, yeah. Like scones are hard for me. Like I need to like dip them in like tea or like you give me a soft carb like when. What are those? Glazed donuts. When they came out. Those be great. Thank you. When those first hit the scene. Cause they're so soft. Especially when they're hard still. Yeah, I was dead. Alright. Ask your questions, I'm answering. I'm a pastry chef. I love it. Thank you Ms. Light. Thank you for being here.
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Audience Member / Participant
Gee, earlier we got. I'm scaling a five million dollar plumbing company. What's the number one thing I should focus on?
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Social media content. Everybody here needs to do social media content. Social media content. Social media content. Social media content. Everyone who's watching here, organic social media posts. I talk about this all the time. Chat mods tell everybody the URLs that can help them. Harvey Boz AZN thank you for being here. Every plumber should be running social media organic posts on Facebook and Instagram. And when a post does well, follow 5000views. 10,000 views. They should be running $100. $500 of media against that post locally in a 20 mile radius to get clients. Same thing that mechanic should do. Phil post I'm a mechanic. Here's what I do well. Here's how you could avoid the mechanic. Here are your good principles of what you should do to your car. You post it Organically, something gets 1,000 views. Run that on a 10 mile radius. That puts your phone number in there and email and says call me like local marketing on meta is a monster. Perry, thank you for joining Checho, thank you for joining effort Bren, Peter Borg, Sam Rose, thank you for joining Nick. Everybody who is confused about rolling above my head? Who's confused with these crazy sales above my head. Who is confused about what's above my head? Say confused. All right, what's the next question?
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Audience Member / Participant
I have so many things that I want to start. How do I pick one?
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Roll the dice, flip a coin, throw a dart. Roll the dice, flip a coin, throw a dart. All of you don't realize everybody what you're seeing above that saying confuses Vee. Friends, it's my Pokemon marvel that I'm building. As you can see on these completed auctions, it is a beast. Bottom left hand corner there's a shopping bag if you want to learn more. Friends, all of you are using the excuse of I have too many ideas. I Don't know which one to pick to be an excuse to not do. Remember in sixth grade when you had that buddy who would come up with excuses cause he was scared to ask out a girl. He's like, I'm too busy with practice or this and that. You knew the girl liked him and he was still scared. Cause he wasn't ready. I wasn't. I had so much potential in sixth grade.
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Audience Member / Participant
I'm still not.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Yeah, I get it, Charlie. I appreciate the honesty, man. Like, honestly, I blew it. I was a beast in middle school and all girls liked me. I was still very cute and hadn't gotten a little less cute. I was a kid. I was much cuter as a kid than I am as a grown up. I had that Fred Savage cute face. You can see it in Xander a little bit. It's like that younger, you know, like how. You know how girls like teeny bop kids? Cause they have that younger. Like, I had that younger face and I had nothing but Riz. I was so charismatic, but like 5th grade president. I dominated, but I was scared to get rejected by a girl straight up. And I blew it. I regret it. Like, all those great moments that I could have had of memories and like spin the bottle and like a sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade girlfriend. I blew it. And that's it. And so like, that's how life is. But I don't blow it in business. I don't blow it in many other things. Friendship, random relationships. When I say random, I don't mean like hookups. I mean like rolling up on strangers and having a convo. And it's a fruitful combo. People that say that they have so many ideas they don't know how to pick one are me in sixth grade. They're scared. They're scared to fail in front of their friends. I was scared to ask Sylvia Ventura out because I didn't want my friends to make fun of me if she said no. It's not super complicated. The reason I could talk about confidence and security is I live that life. I lived it. I just am very lucky that that was really the only place that I was really scared in my life. Everything else, I just wasn't scared. Business asking for the sale. Like right now. Watch this. Hey, everybody. All 865 of you. It'd be really important to me. It would mean the world to me. If you're watching and I've ever brought you value, like a video or two really brought you value. How many people here who are watching. I've helped I've helped you build your business. Let's just. You helped. Say you helped. I helped you with your business or with your upsetness, depression, unhappiness, and I got you happy. Like how many people here say you helped? Lucas says, you helped me build myself. Like, for all the people that said you helped, I feel comfortable saying, hey, is there a comic pinned? It's meet me in the real books. Can you put the comic? I'm very comfortable with this and this is something people are scared of what I'm about to do. It's pinned. Yep. Amazing. That was very quick. When Laura explores. It would mean the world to me if I've helped you. For you to buy a $25 comic pack that's in the store right now. And as you can see above me, the collectibles sell. Look above me, my collectibles sell. If you do homework, if you collect Pokemon or Yu Gi. Oh, Magic the Gathering. Sports cards, sneakers, watches, Flip Life. So when Bucky Tim says you've helped, I feel comfortable saying, it would mean the world to me if you bought one right now. Now, if you can't afford it, if 25 bucks makes it hard on you, then please don't buy it. Never buy something you can't afford, even if it's to thank someone like me that's helped you. It went away again in activity. I don't know if it's gonna come back or is that a refresh thing? But I just want to thank people as they buy it. If you buy one right now, I want to thank you, Tommy Danger. Thank you, Santa. Thank you for picking one up. Also picked up a squishmallow. Can you scroll up a little bit so I can thank a couple other people? Christian again, Santa. Santa's going crazy. Christian. Santa. Just dominating. Anyway, I feel very comfortable asking for the sale. Luis Morales just purchased one. Thank you so much, Luis. So a lot of people are scared to ask. I'm not scared, but I was scared in sixth grade to ask a girl out. 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 4th. It wasn't like my biggest strength. A girl had to be really like aggressive for me, like, alright, there's no risk here. Somewhere in my early 20s, I got stronger, but I missed out on so much fun speaking my language. Great, Charlie. And when you realize later, it's the stupid. And by the way, I had a lot of boys who had no problem with that but were scared crapless to sell a comic. Can't do business. Can't. So I did. And that's just a game. So that person. Yeah. The shop's only us. Only. I apologize, everyone. Luis Morales, thank you for that. That's it. Lacey, Michelle, thank you for looking at the kids book. I'm excited about it. All right, next question. I got this.
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Audience Member / Participant
This one's from Naja.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Naja.
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Audience Member / Participant
Naja. Gary, you have been around for a while now and made some pretty accurate projections about the future of marketing and social media. As you project the future, why is personal branding and key building trust? And how do we. And how do we do that? As bird lines between fake and real are increasingly.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Look, personal brand is slang term for reputation. It's just reputation. Why does reputation matter? Because that's how life works. Like, who do you like? Who do you trust? Who do you like? It's the currency of our society. And so I think everybody who's joined, like, I'm just looking at everybody who joined Raisa. Rich Thompson, Michelle halar, Riley Waters, Jeremylim875 Val Castle, Patrick AI Libanos, Yesen Every one of those people putting out content about your ideas, your thoughts, who you are. Rob, Ryan, Robby, good to see you. Like, building more and more reputation leads to opportunity. Like, the bigger you are on social, the more DMs you get of opportunity. Sometimes some funny, funny, funny business opportunity. You know what I'm saying? And other times, like business opportunities. And that's it. And so you know, your personal reputation is the punchline. It's the punchline of life. And social media allows to scale it because you're reaching so many more people. How many people in the chat right now have never seen me before? Have literally never seen this face, have no idea where they are? Just say no idea. I'm gonna make a point right now about what I'm doing. Thank you so much. Smart meditation. Thank you so much. Yes. Drew, right? Serena says, I've been watching you for 10 years. And now Tom grit gain says, no idea. Alaina, no idea. I hear you shop. I don't really know what they do. I hear you. I see you, but I don't know what they're doing. Lydia knows who I am. Just had a job interview. Let's go. Jesse, that's awesome for you. Jose, no idea. Some other people have been 10 years. Last time I saw you, you were 49. Option B being very clever. It was my 50th birthday Friday. I love that. Mr. The coolest says no idea. Right. Is this just on TikTok live? Yes. Patrick. You know, like, a lot of people here have no Idea. Other people have watched me for 10 years and it's transformed their life. That's how the world works.
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Audience Member / Participant
What would you tell your younger self?
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Gary Vaynerchuk
That I have everything figured out in life. I was naturally gifted, perfect circumstances of mother environment. But candor was gonna be my biggest issue. Telling people you love the truth of the things that's bothering you with them is a gift, not a negative. You're not making the atmosphere worse. You're addressing a problem. You have so much resilience, Gary, and so much capacity to enable bad behavior because you can eat shit. Cause you think about the big picture at all times that you're gonna create resentment things and it's gonna lead to all your biggest problems. So if you're watching right now and you struggle with telling people you love or like how you really feel, take it from somebody who just turned 50. Everything in my life that's been bad has been based on that. The toughest challenges in my life, the biggest issues in my business career, and I highly recommend all of you get better at it. That's that. That's what I tell my younger self. Please ask your questions. Living in Wilmington, made that purchase. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. It's over for you bitches. Made a purchase. Thank you so much. DiPrimo just joined. Cody just joined Hhouse, just joined. Dwayne just joined. Bellen. Jorge, daughter. Lance, Samir, Charity. JJ's Mr. Okada, Rogue. Thank you, Scholar. Thank you for joining. Jumba. Thank you, Tackles treasures. Thank you all for joining. How do you get over heartbreak? Very easily. Time. Time. And just realizing honestly, you're better off. If somebody didn't want to be with you, it would have ended at some point. It's better that it happened where you didn't have like children or lost economics. Like somebody breaking up with you before marriage and children is a blessing. You should love them. It's a real blessing. It's a real blessing.
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Audience Member / Participant
Gee, what about the future of AI influencers?
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Gary Vaynerchuk
What do you think? Thoughts on faceless content Fan, Heather. Faceless content can crush. Face content does better. But faceless is unbelievable. Faceless live streams crush. Go ahead, question.
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Audience Member / Participant
Future of AI influencers.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
It's gonna be big. I highly recommend you making some if you think you're good enough at brand building. It's gonna be big.
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Audience Member / Participant
All right, we got a question from KFC bar stool.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Oh, KFC bar stool. My man. Let's go, kfc.
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Audience Member / Participant
How can people use your random content strategy in industries where there are already a lot of established experts or people With a real passion. Can your mild interest crack through if there's a lot of people with the knowledge and authenticity that you might lack only being sore interested?
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Gary Vaynerchuk
That's a great goddamn question. What a good question. The answer is you can break through. But I think the random content people should make should not be based on lightly interested. My belief is that people just show one side of themselves on the Internet and I'm asking them to show all their sides. So kfc, he likes the jets, he likes all this different stuff, but there might be. And he's shared a lot. He likes pop culture, he likes making his content. But he does news now. Cause I think he thinks kfc, if you're watching that, it might get more awareness. I'm dying to know what else he's into that's not being shown. What about dad lessons now that he's in it a little bit longer? What about fishing or story time? I think a lot of you have to start sharing content about other things you actually are knowledgeable about or interested in. Like, for example, for me, I'm thinking about starting to share history content because I know a lot about history. I use it a lot. And so that would be new for me. Like, let me tell you the story of when Gerald Ford had an assassination attempt or the coup attempt in Cuba or the Bay of Pigs, or like, you know, I might go into that, you know, so that's how garage sale content came. That was a real passion of mine. In a lot of ways, my garage sale content is my most viral, authentic content. How many people here like my garage sale content and wish trash talk was back? Let me know. Let's answer some more questions.
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Audience Member / Participant
Let's do it. Best advice for someone who works, wants to pursue a career in sports media.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
To go intern for somebody in sports media for free or minimum wage. The number one way to get into an industry you're obsessed with is emailing a hundred people that work in it on LinkedIn, saying that you're a hustler, you're a grinder, you'll eat crap just to get in. People are fancy out here, brother. People think because they went to college, people think they deserve something. There's 83,000 other people that want to be in sports media this week. Go tell people that you're hungrier now. People are like, oh, Gary, that's bad advice. You're underselling yourself. Cool. You can't be selling if no one's buying. You know, all four of you in this room represent people that were willing to bet on themselves. You're not getting paid zero. But there are other jobs that probably could have paid more. I know that, but you realize what the platform means and what the learnings mean and what the culture means. And there's just so many people out there that just think they're bougie. You want to be in sports media. Everyone wants to be in sports media. Literally 50% of dudes and 8% of women want to be in sports media on earth right now. How are you going to break through? You need to message people and say you're hungry. I think being an admin, a gopher, an assistant is the game. Do you have the humility to eat crap for three years? I promise you, everybody on ESPN right now that you admire interned and a crap. Interned and a crap.
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Audience Member / Participant
Alright, as a 32 year old man who's got some student loan debt, what would your advice be to him who's trying to get ahead financially and not try to stressful real life?
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Manage your money. You don't need to be on Netflix and Amazon prime, you don't need Uber, you don't need $7 Starbucks. Manage your money. My friends, we don't talk about saving anymore. We don't talk about saving. And then I would say the biggest thing somebody should do that's in debt is to flip on the weekends. I'm such a believer in garage. How many people here got addicted to my GaryVee 2017 flip challenge and learned how to go to garage sales and flea markets and flip stuff and buy and sell stuff? You know, Robi says, I just bought a $28 lunch. You can make a $3 lunch now. You can buy $800 lunch if you can afford it. I can buy $800 lunch, but I couldn't in my 20s. You know, like you gotta live within your means. And I really believe that flipping is massive. I believe garage sales, thrift stores, flea markets, or buying things on the Internet and flipping them, I mean show the auction above my head. These things right above my head right now that everybody can see, those were free. The 24, those were free. That Walmart, those were free. At Comic Con if people showed up, that was free. What is up there right now? A lot of the stuff I do is free and people get it and then they flip it, right? Like some of it's tough cause you buy packs, you don't get good stuff. Other stuff is, you know, goes up, some stuff goes down. But like learning stuff, learning stuff, learning how to flip and buy and flip and buy, whatever it is collectibles, T shirts, you know, like I want people to learn how to buy and flip. And if he lives with his, let's say he makes 83,000 a year or 52,000 in his job. If he makes 52, that 32 year old, he has to live a $27,000 a year lifestyle, move back home, move in with nine people, make a bologna sandwich instead of spending 28 bucks at lunch so that he could save and pay down debt, make some extra money on the weekends buying and flipping stuff. All of a sudden you start to build momentum. Learning skills. When you learn how to flip. Learning skills. How have I built this universe? It's been over 30 years of buying and flipping collectibles. It gave me the insight. So anyway, let's keep it going.
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Audience Member / Participant
G. What, what would you do if you were 22 again?
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Me personally, based on my life is I would actually go have more fun because I worked every minute. And I mean every minute. Like I work 7 to 10pm Monday through Sunday, you know, literally my whole 20s. So 22 year old me would have had more fun. Most people do not work the way very few people work the way I worked. And it was a different time. It was a family business. I'm a psycho. Most people don't do that. Most people need to work more. Most people at 22 aren't working enough. They want a job to overcompensate them on their impact so that they can enjoy their leisure. Most people need to work more. That's just real talk. But everybody's gotta like figure out their own life. Like everybody's got different circumstances. You know, I'm talking in the macro. You know, some people are, you know, we had somebody on the last show who's taking care of their dying mother. I mean everyone's got stuff, right? You know, there's a lot of 22 year olds that are working too much. They need a little more time off. And you gotta self awareness matters. All the things we talk about, Self aware, hair, a vie, friend, empathy, elephant that we just saw up here. Look at that Stan. Store challenge. Changed my life already. This is what we're gonna do here. This is exciting. I'm definitely go. Actually you know what, I'm definitely going. TikTok Live garage sale. Yeah, 100% that's what I'm doing. 100%, that's what I'm doing in the spring. Thank you, Dustin. I'm gonna like systematically teach people how to do it, how to make money, how to get happier, how to make money. How to get happier. Happier is defined by lighter and more grateful. Lighter, more grateful. Are we really going to spend our whole life just being upset about stuff we don't control? Lighter and more grateful. Lighter and more grateful. Thank you for the roses. Thank you for all the stuff. Let's keep answering questions.
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Audience Member / Participant
As far as social content goes, where does production quality matter versus lo fi Candid?
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Lo fi Candid is something you should do 90% of the time because you guys can all afford. And if you can afford doing higher production, you throw that in the mix a little bit. But production quality is not a direct correlation to success, and that's been proven. I won that argument when I wrote the Friends. If you're new to me, I wrote a bunch of books that went crazy. This first one changed the game. I wrote that in 2008. It came out in 2009. It pretty much literally established the entire creator influencer market ecosystem. Here's jab. Jab, right hook. When I wrote these books, like, I was debating people, people thought production value was everything because it was all about television. I won that debate. I won that debate. I won that debate. I won that debate. Just also want to show you all my report card real quick. While I'm at it, just want to make sure you see what my class rank was. Look at that class rank, by the way. The fact that my GPA was 1.67. The original 6.7 is me. But look at this class rank. I was ranked 243 out of 254. Did you get an A in cooking? Nope. I don't think I did. I didn't get any A's. I only got A's in gym. I got A's only in gym. I only got as in gym because I was a gym class hero, as Courtney and Brayden know. Cause they've competed with me in sports. I try. This is it, friends. And I'm going to be one of the most financially and emotionally successful entrepreneurs of all time. How about that? And that was my report card. That's all you need to know. That's all I need to know. Man, it's so good to see all of you. Thank you all for being here. How do I get to 10,000 followers on TikTok fast? By not wanting it fast. Bang. All right, I got you with that. It's a banger. That was the bang answer right there.
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Audience Member / Participant
Scared me a little.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
You understand? Bang. I need you all to wake up on the other side here. You want it fast. It's over. I've been doing this for 30 years. You were spermin your daddy's balls when I started building community. There is no fast. Bang. Everybody get it. You get it. Did everybody understand? Did that land with everyone? Do we now understand? Oh, I'm not mad. Art by. Ah. I'm excited. I'm happy. I love you back, Christopher. Jacqueline, I love you. I'm honored to be here with all of you. Please, everybody, I need all 1000 of you right now to hit the bell. I need all 1000 of you. Hit the bell. Top left corner. Click my face, it's gonna pop up. Follow me and hit the bell. Follow me and hit the bell. Because I'm gonna be here so much in 20, I'm changing up my whole schedule. How many people here follow me for more than seven years? If you follow me for more than seven years, put seven in the chat. Put the number seven. Who's followed me here for six or seven years? Put six, seven in the chat. Put six, seven in the chat. I. For all of you that have followed me for seven years, you all know this. I've been pretty head down in the last three years compared to the prior five years of building the Gary Vee brand. Not as many podcasts, not as much, just not the same. I've been head down building veefriends and vaynermedia. 2026 is the year of Gary Vee. I'm back. I'm Brittany. I'm Brittany. I'm Brittany. You understand? I'm back. And one of the ways I'm gonna be back is I'm gonna be right here all the time with all of you. I'm gonna be here right here all the time. Thank you so much, Joshua B. Burbank. I'm going to be here all the time. Thank you, Dalton. I'm gonna be here all the time. I'm gonna be here all the time. I'm gonna be live on TikTok a lot. And what we're gonna be doing here, we're gonna was gonna be building veefriends. Cause honestly, one of the reasons I'm gonna be building veefriends is I can't wait to see all of you in the wild in seven years. And you're gonna be like, damn it, I can't. I used to watch you back in 2026, 2027. You were on TikTok Live all the time. You were spinning that good business and mindset knowledge. I loved your content, but I didn't, like, I didn't get the veefriends thing that I didn't collect. And I regret it so much now because you blew it up. I want that satisfaction of you not believing in me. Do you understand how much I get excited about you not believing in vee friends? Do you know how much I love it? Do you understand that being underestimated is my favorite thing ever? That I actually like all of you that are not collecting be friends more than I love my incredible homies that are in here collecting. I'm focused. I love your underestimation of this universe I'm building. You know why? You know why? Where is he? There he is. Cause I am a passionate parrot. That's me. I'm a passionate parrot. That's what I am. I'm just a passionate parent. Everybody take the quiz. If you have no idea what veefriends is, the best way to figure it out is to go take the quiz. The quiz is linked in my bio. Go take the quiz and come back and tell me who you are. Which vee friend are you? Who hit the bell, everybody let me know if you just joined me for the first time. You followed me and hit the bell. You followed me and hit the bell. And everybody, huge thank you to everybody who has picked up something in the store. If you're picking up your first living in Wilmington, the link is in my bio, right? If you look at my profile on TikTok, there's a link. Just click it. Hi, Wilma. Great to see Wilma. That's Fred Flintstone, by the way. Fictional character rookie cards. Shrek, Buzz Lightyear, Felix the cat, Heathcliff, Garfield, Popeye the sailor man, spider man, Thor, Dr. Doom, Darth Vader, Porky Pig, Smurfette, Kermit the Frog. All of these characters rookie cards are going to go crazy in the next decade. I'm so bullish. Fictional character, vintage pre 1990 rookie cards are about to go crazy. Crazy. Ooh, Cosmo got the entrepreneur elf. I love that for you, Daffy Duck. I like them all fanatic. What people don't realize is the comic book and toys crew that loves comic con. They're coming to sports cards, they're coming to trading cards. So they don't collect that. Now, like Spiderman heads don't like the biggest spider man collectors in the world. Don't default into like, the ones that have spent hundreds of thousands. They're not like, oh, I have to own the 1966 Donruss Spider man rookie card. But in the next five years, they're going to blue J design. Should I drop 500 on cards if you know what you're doing. Or if you're looking to collect for yourself. If you're looking to flip, get very educated. Thank you, Kevin from Belgium. Thank you for being here. I'm always bullish on the koala. Especially the koala. 2025. I like plushies. Yaddy. I'm just gonna rock with the crowd here before I bounce out. Hey, do you see your shipping supply needs al Mar. You can hit us up at Veefriends. Gary. Been watching you for seven years. I still can't get started. Help. Es. You're just insecure. You're not jumping because you're scared. Best Pokemon tip for someone getting into it. Nickmoda. Get into Veefriends. That's your best Pokemon tip. Cause we're early. Pokemon's mature. But I love Pokemon and it's a beast. And it's 30 hours of homework. Thank you, Ron. The Nomad came from the post. Let's go, Gary. I love you. Oh, Drake May is killing me. Top three on the leaderboard. I love you, Drivinity. Elizabeth Rance and coach Bob Butler. Thank you for leading. Blanks and coffee right behind it. Do you have any plushies available, Yachty? We don't right now. They are available on the auction site above my head for people that bought them back in the day and are reselling them. But we will have more. I have 32,000 toys and plushes selling on. That's awesome. Silly Deal. Mike, I love you back. Sealed Atari. I'm obsessed with dj. Nobody wants befriends cards. It's funny you say that, Colin, because the auction sites prove you wrong. I love you, bro. Though I take on your hate and I combat it with nothing but love and empathy for you. I really hope nothing but good stuff happens for you, my guy. I love you, Dave. Yarns. Thank you for being here, Yams. Thank you, everybody. Please take which all the characters you could think of. Riri. All the top 100 characters. Betty Boop. You know, Miss Piggy, Papa Smurf, Gargamel, Snake Eyes from, like, from GI Joe. Optimus Prime, Yosemite Sam. Like Eddie, Like Shrek, Buzz Lightyear. You know, all the Nickelodeon. Doug. I bought a Doug Rookie card recently. Like, you know, SpongeBob. All that stuff is going Foghorn. That's right, Jeff. This fictional thing's coming. I always say, watch what I'm doing, not what I'm saying. Why am I building a huge intellectual property company? Because in an AI world, the IP and the copyright is the winners and cause I'm capable of building the stories and that's why is the comic pinned. I would love for you to pick up this comic. Actually, the ninja and monster comic in the store, bottom left hand corner shopping bag is crazy stuff. Please check it out. Please check it out. I think you'll be blown away. Eddie, the launch pro just made a purchase of the comic book. Thank you so much. There's people viewing the product like Kel and three others. Javi. Thank you, Jake. Everybody, look at these comics that are selling. Look at these. Look at what's above me. Look at this one. Look at that wolf. Look at the Heart trooper and the PSA 9. Look at this. You see that comic? Look at that pin people have. They're sleeping on what I'm building. I can't wait for all of you to click the link. This format is much better with the products. Yep, I agree. You see what we did? We adjusted from the last show. We're learning. We're learning. We're always learning. We're always. I got the Daring Dragonfly after taking the quiz. I love that, Aubrey. Now learn about the Daring Dragonfly. Go to the auction site you see above me and type in Daring Dragonfly. See what's out there from the Daring Dragonfly. Learn our world. Oh, if you have a kid that's below the ages of six, our YouTube cartoons are incredible. On YouTube kids, same brand name veefriends. Go just search it. They're incredible cartoons. Anyway, thank you all for being here. Bye. Big announcement. As you've probably heard at this point, because I had John from Stan on the show, I am an investor advisor to an incredible startup called Stan. Stan Store. I'm sending you right now to GaryVee.com, garyVee.com Stan, go check this out. We've done a Gary B. Stan Store challenge, which actually has a weekly call with me. This is built for everyone who's been affected honestly by my overall content. The tech stack, all these features, and the minimal costs per month that Stan Store has built is really the tool that was the needed for this world that I envisioned when I wrote crush it, when I wrote crushing it. And this overall thing I'm thinking a lot about lately, which is the individual empire, right? This creator entrepreneur slash entrepreneur creator economy that I think is gonna eat up the oxygen. Very honestly, the thing that so many of you want in your life and the reason so many of you are not there yet is you've got the strategy for me. You've got the ambition within yourself, but you don't have the tools for you to fully maximize it. And I believe you can find that at Stan Store. Stan Store. But specifically, I want you to sign up for it through my challenge because I want to get access with you. And plus, there's a bunch of cool things. So if you want to go see those cool things, go to garyvee.com Stan S T A N.