Gary Vee invested $200K of his $236K life savings into Facebook
Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee) · How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time) · May 22, 2024 · at 30:15
Gary Vaynerchuk describes his willingness to take massive concentrated bets when he spots paradigm shifts, citing his early angel investment in Facebook.
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“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?”
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