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“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“China's going to do a trillion in GMV this year and stuff sold.”

“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…”

“Digital collectibles will be a part of everyone's life.”

“20% of the people that everybody else wanted to let go is not let go, because I see something that feels corporate”

“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.”

“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…”

“I think it'll be 10% brands, 20% brands. I think you'll see publishers, gaming companies, like IP that we, right now, VFriends, Bored Ape, Cool Cats, IP getting established, but you're gonna see Hello Kitty, you're gonna see the Flintstones, so you're gonna se…”

“Yeah, I mean, you know, it ebbs and flows, and to your point, like, I mean, I can't even comprehend the economic impact live social shopping is going to do over the next 10 years for humans and consumer businesses.”

“TikTok shop and whatnot are doing real numbers in, in the U S and that is clearly going to be popping off any second with what they're going to do, which will lead YouTube to do what they're going to do.”

“I think it's gonna be just like social. 90% up front are gonna make garbage. 10%, if you remember early brands on social, Zappos had a big move on it that worked for them. There were some other brands that did a really nice job. Then you look at brands that we…”

“I'm blown away by how much under-thirty-year-olds are signing up for Facebook groups at scale right now. I think it's an effective marketing job by them.”

“I know how I'm going about doing it, which makes me feel that I'm gonna get it done in 25 to 27 years.”

“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”

“In Mount Ida College, first semester, I hear the internet for the first time, and I decide, oh my god, I'm not gonna launch 800 Toys R Us of wines, which is what my plan was at that time. I'm gonna launch a website, even though I did not own a computer, even t…”

“We went to we went to ten million in 99, and 17.5 in 2028.3, you know. I mean, it was, we went from four to 65, and 60 to 65 in a blink, you know.”

“The greatest thing that was ever done for me in my life professionally was my father making an enormous bet on spending the 15,000 dollars to build winelibrary.com”

“We didn't get cash infusion. We didn't raise capital for Wine Library.”

“Gillette paid us 60,000 dollars for a project, and we thought that was a trillion dollars.”