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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 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 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 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”