Gary Vaynerchuk
Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia. On 8 shows, 6 appearances, plus 3 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Gary Vaynerchuk is the chairman of VaynerX and CEO of VaynerMedia. He gained recognition developing Wine Library TV and later co-founded VaynerMedia, Resy, and VeeFriends, alongside publishing several bestselling business books.
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76statements
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261said about them ↓ Everything Gary Vaynerchuk said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Vaynerchuk: In-office employees advance faster than remote workers due to osmosis
“It is very clear to me that the employees globally that are in the office are advancing past the ones that are not, because they're winning on the biggest thing in an office, it's called osmosis.”
Gary Vee: Extreme AI Will Drive a Massive Resurgence in Analog Experiences
“Extreme AI, I think, is creating extreme analog. I really do think it's a barbell. I think in the next 10 years, obviously it's 2036, but I feel like it's gonna feel like 20 50, which actually is bringing the rise of 1950.”
Gary Vee: In Five Years, Nobody Will Believe Any Video Online
“We're literally within a half decade not believing a single video, not a single fucking video that's on the internet. Like, in five years, if we're having this video, this interview right now, Most of the audience is trying to figure out if we're real or not.”
Gary Vee: Big companies waste 93 cents of every marketing dollar
“Your marketing department is wasting 93 cents of every dollar they spend.”
Vaynerchuk personally approves every single employee firing across global VaynerMedia
“For example, I sign off on every firing in the entire company globally. There's not one person in this company that can be fired without me signing off, because I'm scared that my leaders will do politics and corporate stuff, not human stuff.”
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…”
Vaynerchuk: 99% of the top 200 OpenSea NFT projects are vulnerable
“99% of the projects on the OpenSea top rankings, top 200 right now, are incredibly vulnerable against their valuation.”
Vaynerchuk: Most NFT Projects Cannot Maintain Value Due to Supply Flood
“The far majority of projects in this gold rush cannot maintain their value because the supply of NFTs that are coming into the market is extraordinary.”
Vaynerchuk: NFTs are an easier bet than layer-1 tokens via bridging
“The reason I went into NFTs more than currency is my theory is if Ethereum loses, I can bridge over my crypto punks, right? So to me, the NFT asset class feels in a lot of ways, like an easier bet. If you feel like you really know which NFTs you want to invest…”
Vaynerchuk: 99% of current NFT projects will fail and collapse in price
“Yeah, I mean, I think 99% of the projects that are being launched right now are gold rushes, and they're gonna be projects that fail, and people are gonna buy tokens from celebrities, leagues, different things, and the price is gonna go down.”
Vaynerchuk: Major Brands Won't Adopt Pure AI Ads Due to Backlash
“This is, by the way, one of the reasons we're not gonna see unlimited television commercials and social media content that's just pure AI from the biggest companies in the world is every time they try to go there, you probably have touched on your show, McDona…”
Vaynerchuk: Elite MBA degrees no longer guarantee financial upside
“It's addressing something I believe is real, which is, like, getting an MBA in real life and AI at, you know, pennies versus taking on extreme debt and getting an MBA from a high-class university. They think that logo Is going to get you financial opportunity …”
Gary Vee: Brands should spend 20% of marketing budget on organic social
“Every brand on earth should be spending even 20% of their entire marketing budget just on social media organic production, because the mid-funnel and TikTok-ification of social has eaten up the world, and we should spend no media dollars against creative that …”
Vaynerchuk: China will do $1 trillion in live commerce GMV this year
“China's going to do a trillion in GMV this year and stuff sold.”
Vaynerchuk: Exploring niche rabbit holes builds essential pattern recognition for CEOs
“Going down rabbit holes became data points and context to other moments of going down rabbit holes that allowed me to either bail early, pattern recognition, or triple down on an opportunity, and so, you know, I'm a, I really don't know how a CEO or entreprene…”
Vaynerchuk: Digital marketing wastes money just as easily as traditional media
“I think that I know, because I live in it every day, you can waste an ungodly amount of money on influencers, on Facebook, on Instagram, on TikTok, on Spotify just as easily as you can in a newspaper or billboard or radio.”
Vaynerchuk: Super Bowl ads are underpriced for Fortune 500 companies
“Whether it's a Super Bowl ad, which I think is underpriced for Fortune 500, or it's a carousel ad on, you know, Instagram, or LinkedIn, or it's an emerging influencer on TikTok to make content for your local car wash business, or SaaS business selling to Fortu…”
Vaynerchuk: LinkedIn currently offers significantly more organic reach than Instagram
“Meanwhile, LinkedIn is acting like Facebook in 2015, where on LinkedIn, if you post about floral arrangements, or why you're a good option for a corporate floral, or just a one-off Valentine's Day thing, it is more likely that you will get organic reach. On Li…”
Vaynerchuk: Creators should build on Snapchat Discover, not just TikTok
“Snapchat discovery is where a lot of creators should be making content, but they're only making it on Instagram and TikTok.”
Vaynerchuk: 99% of creators fail to reverse-engineer audience psychology on social media
“This is a level of science in day trading attention that I believe 99% are not executing on in social.”
Vaynerchuk: Overcoddling kids with participation trophies breeds anxiety and entitlement
“I think it is bad to give kids eighth place trophies. I don't think it teaches them about life. I think we've over coddled kids. We've created entitlement. I think, I believe there's a lot of anxiety I have thousands of under 25 year old employees, or under 30…”
The other half of the tape: Gary Vaynerchuk's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 225 times in 76 episodes across the shows. 36 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Sam Parr 52Shaan Puri 44Greg Isenberg 22Codie Sanchez 19Guy Raz 18Julien Smith 11Phil Toronto 6Kelly Peeler 6
Statements about Gary Vaynerchuk, by other people (36)
Gary Vaynerchuk predicts some people's grandchildren will marry AI robots
“Well, I've gone pretty viral lately because I, my craziest prediction is that most people's grandchildren will marry an AI robot. Some of them will, not everyone's going to”
Gary Vee: Eliminating competitiveness causes nihilism and severe depression
“Winning and losing is incredibly imperative to the human race. Nothing is good out of balance. Of course, people are like, Gary, winning and losing, like, is it ok to, like, hurt people to win? No, no, it's not ok. But is it okay to completely eliminate merit …”
Gary Vaynerchuk: Imposter syndrome is just a euphemistic label for insecurity
“Do you know what imposter syndrome is? It's called insecurity. We've just given it makeup. Nobody's like, yo, I'm insecure. Nobody says that code, but so many people are like, man, I have imposter syndrome. Makeup. Got it? The definition, literally the definit…”
Gary Vee avoids AI startups because rapid iteration causes obsolescence
“Also, real quick, because I know a lot of smart investors listening here, be very careful in investing in AI. The reason I haven't yet is every week, you think you just invested in the best X, and a week later, somebody crushes that.”
Gary Vee: Leaders should only touch the first and last 10%
“When we're doing important shit, I tell the team, I have to be involved in the first 10%, because I'm molding it. Then I disappear. And then you need to come back to me to close it. I open and close. The middle's the problem. And winners, and people aspiring t…”
Gary Vee: Financially supporting adult children signals they are losers
“Because parents don't realize if you're paying for your kid when they're a grown adult, you're telling your kid you don't believe in them. Through your actions, not your words. They know they're a loser. Yeah. That shit hurts. You know?”
Gary Vee: Attention is the most mispriced asset right now
“And I would argue that attention is the most mispriced asset right now that most impacts everyone.”
Gary Vaynerchuk achieved publishing history's largest pre-order with one million books
“And so far as of today, it is the largest pre-order ever. In, in publishing history. He has I think as of yesterday, he has sold one million copies of his book before it's even gone live.”
Sapp: Gary Vee Is Wrong That People in Their 20s Have Time
“I love Gary Vee, don't get me wrong, but I hate when he says, you're, you have time. You're so young. I started when I was 45. You have time. You don't have time. You don't. Because I find that if you're young, and if you're in your twenties, this is the time …”
Gary Vee: Real-time translation earbuds will eliminate learning foreign languages
“What about the fact that nobody has to learn a language anymore? Everyone's going to have ear pods that like, you're going to talk to somebody, they're going to be speaking Spanish and you'll hear it as English and you're going to speak English and they'll hea…”
Gary Vaynerchuk welcomes hiring C-players to develop them into B-players
“C players, for my businesses when I hire, I love a good C because I think we have a system to get people to Bs, and I think Bs are great.”
Gary Vee predicts he will be known primarily for VeeFriends
“VFriends is the other biggest business I run. That's my Marvel Pokemon. It's an intellectual property. That's, I do actually believe in my eighties, that's what I will be known for more than anything else I've done.”
Gary Vee: Influencers who flex luxury struggle and are less happy
“People that have over-indexed on that move, I have found over the last 20 years, tend to struggle to stay on top, Tend to be less happy.”
Gary Vaynerchuk: A C-tier personality is fatal to an organization
“Give me an A plus personality and a C player, because C personality is death on arrival.”
Gary Vaynerchuk: Most achieve success from insecurity rather than confidence
“I continue to believe that most people get successful because of insecurity, and there's a rare breed That gets there through confidence, and I'm so grateful that I'm in that small group, and I see it in others.”
Gary Vaynerchuk: All consumer shopping will eventually be done by AI
“I think all of shopping will be done by agents for you based on your behaviors. Like, it will know better that you wanted that outfit than you knew.”
Gary Vee will not sell his Meta shares until Zuckerberg leaves
“And the reason I've never sold a share of Facebook is I've been committed for a long time in this, in my own mind, which was I'll never sell until he's gone.”
Gary Vee: Someone will build working AR contact lenses
“I'm positive somebody's going to make the contact lenses that work like this.”
Gary Vee keeps only a $1M cash safety net; rest is invested
“My, I'm very fortunate, so my zero is a million dollars, but that's it. That's it, Sam. Wait, so you only keep a million in your, like, liquid portfolio? That's your safety net? No, no, no, I have other things, like, I have money in all sorts of places, but I …”
Isenberg: Gary Vaynerchuk's 'Jab, Jab, Right Hook' Model Is Outdated in 2024
“Gary V is famously talks about the jab, jab hook, right? Like you give value, and then you take. And I just don't think that in 20, 24, that that's relevant to me. I think that it's just jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, just another jab. Like your product should …”
Puri estimates VeeFriends netted Gary Vaynerchuk between $10M and $30M
“There's been ninety-three million dollars of sales of vFriends, and I think he gets, you know, let's say a 10 to 10 to 15% stake royalty on every sale. So I think it's pretty Easy to estimate. I think at the low end, he's made ten million dollars off of vFrien…”
Gary Vee: Early-stage creators must reply to every comment and DM
“If you're just kind of getting into your early stages, and you have like, 10,000 followers, and you're posting, and you're getting 14 comments, you're getting 13 DMs a day, reply to all of them. Scale the unscalable.”
Gary Vee: VaynerMedia generates $350M annually with 2,000 employees
“Now it's 2000 plus people, three hundred fifty million a year revenue. Not valuation.”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
My First Million 98
the Startup Ideas Podcast 54
BigDeal 29
How I Built This 26
20VC 14
TBPN 3
Starter Story 1
2026 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- 4 Steps to Become a Sales Machine (Make a TON of Money) | Shelby Sapp
- GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It
- Advice Line with Ben Goodwin of Olipop
- U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
- $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- Side Hustle King: 6 $60K/Mo Businesses Nobody's Doing
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 44 mentions in 9 episodes 5 per episode
- The Biggest Bets I Made — And How They Paid Off: Gary Vee
- Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal
- UNTUCKit: Chris Riccobono
- The Golden Age of AI is happening right now (Here's Why)
- AI Expert: What Scares Me Most (Here's What I Found): Brendan McCord
- $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
- The New Rich Do This | Sahil Bloom
- If I Wanted To Become A Millionaire Creator in 2025, This Is What I’d Do
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 38 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time)
- How To Grow An Audience If You Have 0 Followers
- This legend gave away 3 crazy cash-flowing business ideas
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- How to Build a $10M+ Online Empire (feat. Joshua Weissman)
- Do THIS to Make $30,000/month
- Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 31 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Info Diets, OG Content Creators, and 7-year Lifespans
- 3 Non-Obvious Networking Strategies That Work
- The Ultimate TikTok Guide by JT Barnett: From Beginner to Stardom
- Favorite Finds: McDonald's Employee Goes Viral, Pelosi's Finances & How To Close A Deal (#498)
- From Zero to 100,000: How Jackson Greathouse Mastered Twitter Growth
- Trung Phan on The Hustle, ChatGPT, and TikTok
- 99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 52 Minutes (#525)
- 4 Profitable Business Ideas That Men Are Sleeping On | ft. Codie Sanchez (#512)
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 27 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & Web3 Business (#382)
- Asking A Billionaire Investor How To Prepare For The Economic Collapse (#371)
- Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…
- How To Create Your Own Luck With Julien Smith
- $30M by Age 19 — And Where You Should Build Today
- Are We Alone In The Universe? (with Tim Urban)
- The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
- How to Engineer Serendipity | Matt Mullenweg, Automattic
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 65 mentions in 16 episodes 4 per episode
- How to Have an Early Adopter Mindset, ConstitutionDAO, Optimizing Twitter Bios, and More
- Shaan Challenges Sam to Ignore His Limits, Michael Rubin is the Billy of the Week, and More
- Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
- How a City Tour is Making Millions, & Selling Manhood | My First Million # 177
- How Beachbody Makes Money, & Brainstorming "HackerNews for X" | My First Million #173
- How Tracking Every Second Took Rob Dyrdek from 0 to $405M in Exits | My First Million #224
- MFM #171: How to Generate Millions from Paid Events (Bootstrapped)
- The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2015 2 mentions in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Gary's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia | 2 | 27 | 67% 2/3 | full record on How I Built This → |
| BIGDEALLEDGER | Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia | 0 | 0 | 50% 1/2 | full record on BigDeal → |
 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia | 1 +1 | 18 | — | full record on Masters of Scale → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia | 0 | 0 | 0% 0/1 | full record on My First Million → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia | 1 | 11 | — | full record on TBPN → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia | 1 +1 | 12 | 0% 0/1 | full record on 20VC → |
| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia | 1 | 8 | — | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |
| STARTER STORYLEDGER | Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on Starter Story → |