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.
8shows
6appearances
76statements
7resolved
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43%fully supported
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: My biggest executive flaw was struggling to give critical feedback
“When I realized, you know, five to seven years ago, that lack of candor, which is crazy, because Gary Vee's candor's off the charts, but Gary Vaynerchuk, the executive, when I realized lack of candor, I struggled giving critical feedback.
Yeah, and then the fi…”
Sahil Bloom: Documenting Real-Time Experiences Outperforms Engineered Content
“The most interesting content in the world is, like, journey-based content. We often think that these kind of, like, engineered moments are the thing that really drives content, but people want to hear about a human journey. They want to hear about, like, a rea…”
Gary Vee will repost 100 top YouTube videos to Twitter
“I think literally have a meeting today where I'm going to post my hundred most successful YouTube videos on Twitter here over the course of the next couple months. Try to stagger it a little bit, because it's just very clear that Twitter is going to push it, r…”
Gary Vee invested $200K of his $236K life savings into Facebook
“I haven't bet everything on everything, but if I ever feel the way I felt about Facebook in 2007, when I put, I had 236,000 dollars in savings, I put 200,000 into Facebook, right?”
Kris Jones advises aspiring VCs to publish startup analysis on a blog
“It's as easy as going to WordPress and starting up your own blog and, You know, you could create a blog and start to express your thoughts on, on startup companies and, you know, that space so that when you do reach out to say a Gary Vaynerchuk or a Mark Cuban…”
Alpert: Cold Email Led to Gary Vaynerchuk Investing in Gielish
“So I cold emailed Gary Vaynerchuk, he's one of our lead investors.”
Gary Vee: Wine Library started abandoned cart email recovery in 2000
“I remember going to my developer in 2000 being like, can we see who didn't check out? Like, I like, it was like, you gotta understand this is an early internet... He's like, yeah, we started emailing people that had abandoned carts and fucking crushed.”
Gary Vee's first three angel investments were Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr
“Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr were my first three investments of my life.”
Gary Vee invested in Tumblr's Series B at a $14M valuation
“I got into Tumblr's Series B at a fourteen million dollar valuation.”
Toronto: Gary Vaynerchuk drew 1,000-person crowds to SXSW pop-ups via Twitter
“Back in the day, he had what was called the secret wine party back in 20, no, not even 22,007, 2008, even Predates me and we've been working together for 13 years. He would literally roll up to a bar. You did this started in South by Southwest say, Hey, I'm go…”
Gary Vaynerchuk was the first angel investor in Breather
“I take the call from Gary, and he goes something like, I don't have time to advise, because I was just like, I was like, well, he even, like, does he really know me that well? Is he, and he's like, yeah, Julian has been around a super long time. Yeah, I'll def…”
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 → |