Gary Vaynerchuk
Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia · 0 appearances on the record.
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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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Who brings them up most Codie Sanchez 19Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee) 4Shelby Sapp 3Joshua Weissman 2Sahil Bloom 1
Statements about Gary Vaynerchuk, by other people (21)
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?”
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: 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.”
Gary Vaynerchuk made payroll for 27 straight years without outside funding
“For 27 straight years, every day of my life, I have had to be responsible to make payroll. With no funding.”
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: 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.”
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