Transcript
Gary Vaynerchuk (0:00)
Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the GaryVee audio experience. On today's episode, we have another Micro V for all of you. In this one, we're sharing a conversation between Gary and Alvin Bolles, general partner of Alpha. Gary dives into why pretending to know AI is more dangerous than not knowing how to approach AI without fear, and the importance of learning these new AI platforms. This episode is perfect for those who don't want to get left behind in a rapidly evolving AI age. Let's get right into it.
Alvin Bolles (0:26)
There's this, this notion around artificial intelligence and people faking it like they know what the hell they're doing, right? So most of the people that I'm on boards with are much older than I, less tech savvy than I, and their fear of disintermediation, of course. And so that last part, but that's the thing. And so it's like, well, but nobody really wants to admit what they don't know. How do we actually move the needle to like, she 1 bring people's guard down so they can actually leave their trepidation of what they don't know and like, just say, man, I don't know. And like, where, where are you actually staying intelligent on this shit?
Gary Vaynerchuk (1:04)
The real answer to question is good parenting. You basically just asked me, how do we tone down the insecurity and rev up the humility of people that have achieved success, often by posturing, being political, or just the luck of the draw, besides all the elements of their own hard work and things of that nature. It's a huge challenge. One of the things that's been fascinating to me in the journey of my career is I started in such humble places. There was. And I wasn't around corporations until I was 35 years old. I didn't know anything but family business. Everything that we ever talked about was so practical. The first, you know, 15 years of my career, everything was so practical. Like, you know, if marketing, which is my passion, my father Sasha, cared how many bottles sold in a store. He didn't care if it would have won the award. All this stuff today, it's perfect that we're filming this today. He wouldn't give a shit about an ad meter. He wouldn't give a shit about USA Today's top five. He wouldn't care about Twitter, right? He would be like, did we sell stuff did it? And did we sell stuff today? And can we feel that we've sold stuff tomorrow? And things of that nature with this conversation? Because of Web one, because of Web two and a lot of my career when I started to understand corporations and what you're talking about with web2 social and then with web3 blockchain and crypto and, and within them, as they were iterating, it became obvious to me. I'm like oh snap. Some of the most intelligent, powerful, best, most accomplished people I know, when the new thing comes, they peacock and they don't know. It was shocking to me at first because I was so naive. I didn't grow up at good academic structure. I just didn't see it until well into my life. And all of it was based on the stuff that I do know well, which is human behavior. It was always and so about insecurity and humility. So for everyone who's listening when you are faking it, when you're a 57 year old or 40 year old or 12 year old or 90 year old. But let's talk about boards or executives. Cause that's what we're talking about here. Please know something. And this is literally for the creme de la creme that I know are listening to this when you're faking it. The smart 3% know.