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Vaynerchuk would refuse $100 billion if it meant he had to retire
“If somebody came to me and said, I will give you one hundred billion dollars in cash, but you can never work again. You must fully retire financially. Meaning, the cliche thing. Must go on a beach, in a very nice place, and actually do nothing besides drink be…”
Gary Vee would refuse $100 billion if forced to permanently retire
“If somebody came to me and said, I will give you one hundred billion dollars in cash, but you can never work again. You must fully retire, meaning the cliche thing, must go on a beach, In a very nice place and actually do nothing besides drink beers, walk on t…”
Gary Vee says post-iOS 14 ad pullbacks created organic arbitrage on Facebook
“I changed my mind on how big of a platform Facebook is. One of the coolest things for me right now is that I'm back into being obsessed with content on Facebook because the map of supply and demand of attention on it has flipped aggressively with iOS, 14 updat…”
Gary Vee has never sold a single share of his Facebook stock
“I've never sold a share of Facebook since the day I invested almost 15 years ago.”
Gary Vee invested his entire 20s savings into Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr
“Saving my money in my twenties And then deciding to spend all of it in a one year period on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr based on at that .10 years of very hard work, diligence of saving and not wasting my money and looking for the opportunity to strike.”
Gary Vee scaled his father's wine business to $60M on under $100k
“My dad had a business doing 3.8 million in revenue. And in a seven year window, I took it to sixty million. And I changed the course of my father's financial life and my mother's financial life. Yet I was never getting paid a 100,000 dollars a year and owned n…”
Gary Vaynerchuk: Money and fame only expose and accelerate personal character
“All that money and fame do, Harry, is exposes who you actually are. It just accelerates your truth.”
Gary Vee argues money and fame expose character rather than change it
“All that money and fame do, Harry, is exposes who you actually are. It just accelerates your truth.”
Gary Vee admits his content is more therapy than traditional business advice
“My content is far more therapy than it is business HBS.”
Gary Vee's first three angel investments were Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr
“The first three companies I invested in, in my entire life as an investor were Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.”
Gary Vee still holds the majority of his original Twitter investment
“I sold some Twitter, but still hold the majority of that holdings from then.”
Gary Vee started VaynerMedia at 34 with zero cash in a boardroom
“At 34 years old, I started VaynerMedia with no money. We started the company in Buddy Media's conference room, which I'm sure you know, because you've listened to another interviews, and I'm very proud of what we've built from zero and scratch with no cash”