Name: Gary Vaynerchuk on Why Perspective Will Make or Break You | Impact Theory
Uploaded: 2017-12-17T00:00:35.000Z
Duration: 49 min 8 s
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You are here, my friends, because you believe
that human potential is nearly limitless,

but you know that having potential is not
the same as actually doing something with

So our goal, with this show and company, is
to introduce you to the people and ideas that

are going to help you actually execute on
your dreams.

Today's guest is one of the world's leading
marketing experts and living proof that the

American Dream is alive and well, if you're
willing to work your face off.

He was born in Belarus in the former Soviet
Union, didn't speak a word of English when

His entire extended family lived together
in a tiny-ass apartment in Queens, and as

the foreign kid, he was once bullied into
drinking urine from a soda can.

He was a D and F student, and pretty much
everyone thought he would fail in life.

Despite all of that, though, this guy not
only refuses to complain about anything ever,

he is wildly optimistic, upbeat, and freakishly
driven.

A born entrepreneur, he began by ripping flowers
out of people's yards and selling them back

He had an entire lemonade franchise system
while he was still riding a big wheel, and

in his teens, he was routinely making thousands
of dollars a weekend selling baseball cards,

until his father forced him to go to work
in the family business for $2 an hour.

But he didn't waste time whining about it.

He just got to work, and just out of college,
by being an early adopter of the internet.

He took his father's discount liquor store
from being a local store doing $4 million

a year in revenue to an internet phenomenon
doing $45 million in revenue in just five

Now, leveraging his unique ability to identify
where consumer attention is going next, he

founded the pioneering digital agency VaynerMedia,
which serves some of the largest companies

on the planet, and along the way, he's also
built a massive social following of his own

that rings in at around 3.5 million devoted
followers.

He is a people first kind of guy, and you
can see it in everything that he does, from

his employees to his fans and partnerships.

His business is growing crazy fast, and it'll
soon be starring in Apple's original series

Planet of the Apps with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica
Alba, and will.i.am.

On top of all that, he's also a prolific angel
investor and venture capitalist who was an

early investor in such juggernauts as Snapchat,
Facebook, Twitter, and Uber, so please, dearest

of friends, help me in welcoming the four-time
New York Times best-selling author and future

owner of the New York Jets, Gary Vaynerchuk.

You [crosstalk 00:02:52]
Gary: There's no shot I could have pulled

that off, and also, after listening to all
that, I'm really glad my mom sent you the

Tom: I got it all from her, just yeah, straight
out.

Gary: Nice to have some peeps in the audience.

I always like that a little bit better, so
...

This all started originally back with Inside
Quest.

It was all about doing something for the employees.

Tom: And I had this unending terror, because
I have these 25 bullet points that I think

anybody should be living by, and I was terrified
people would memorize them but not actually

Tom: Which is like the death sentence, because
you think you're doing something right.

So yeah, I love having people here and getting
feedback.

I think so many people are keyboard activists,
right?

Everybody's good at sending a tweet about
how the world should be, and nobody's doing

anything about it, and that is just very much
human nature.

Tom: I was just going to ask if you think
that's human nature, or if you think that

I mean, of course we've gotten soft as a culture
in the U.S., because the U.S. has had an incredible

This is just what happens, so as a culture,
I can't speak for people that live in the

Amazon River, and I can't speak for people
that still live in Belarus, but the American

culture is soft, and that's a great thing.

That means there's been enormous amounts of
prosperity, but let's not be naïve.

I mean, people literally complain when somebody
gives them the wrong amount of extra cream

We've gotten to a place where we complain
... Out of all those lovely things you said,

as I stood there getting ready to come, the
part that, and I'm glad you pick up on this

and not a lot of people have said it before,
so thank you, my lack of interest in complaining

And when I watch what people complain about,
it breaks my heart, because they completely

lack perspective, and I genuinely believe
my happiness and optimism comes from my perspective.

Even in political unrest times like right
now, a lot of people very bent out of shape,

but the reality is, is that it's just never
been better to be a human being.

That's reality, and yeah, I mean, it's just
a very fun time to be alive.

The internet is starting to hit maturity.

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