#‎AskGaryVee‬ Episode 114: Meeting Deadlines in the Workplace

– Gerald, if the kids wanna go into the family business, which is really interesting to me. I’m super curious what ends up happening with Misha and Xander. Honestly, at that point, as I project 15 to 20 years out, I feel the empire is gonna be at such a level, that
it’s gonna be (mumbling). Crap, the family business in 20 years may actually be the Jets. Yes, 100% I will actually, 1000% make them start from the bottom. I’m gonna throw a curveball. And I know little Xander, little Misha, you’re watching this right now. Probably in five to seven years from now where you can comprehend this, but I need ya to see this and I need ya to know your dad is not bullshitting you. Not only will I make them start from the bottom, or let me rephrase, I’ll make them start from
the appropriate place that their education or skillset as a young entrepreneur
or executive created, just like I would treat you or DRock, or anybody else. But here’s the way more interesting part. I won’t let them ascend
to being number one, at least while I’m alive, unless they ascend to be number one. I think the thing that I’m most proud of both in Wine Library and with VaynerMedia is we have friends and family involved in both businesses. And the levels that people play in are actually all over the place. This is something you guys know. You know so many of A.J.’s dear friends are involved in the company. And you know that there’s
just different levels. We’re not gonna get into names. But like, people are
playing at different levels. And obviously, kids are different. And I could be, conceivably, completely full of shit because I’m not completely quantifying the enormous amount of love that I’m
going to gather in them over the next years. But I have a funny feeling that my respect for
meritocracy and capitalism is gonna force me into that game. And number two, I’m thrilled to write them a nice check, more than 99% of people deserve, for them to go do their own thing if they don’t like it. If you don’t like it Xander, go do your thing. Misha. (siren blaring)

– [Voiceover] Ginson asks, “Do you work “on your birthday?” (spitting) – Couple things, my man. Number one, I hate my birthday. My 40th birthday is coming November 14th of this year. That was a little bit of a specific drop, mainly ’cause I want
the entire VaynerNation to buy me a lotta gifts, Jets jerseys of random rare players are at the top of the things that I like, medium. I’ve worked on every birthday of my entire life, all of them. Literally, even some in my teenage years, ’cause they happened to fall weekends when my dad was draggin’
my ass to the store. But since I became a
full-time professional at 22, I’ve worked every birthday. I’ve given a talk. I gave a speech, the RE/MAX convention for Thank You Economy came out during my birthday. Like, gave a speech on my birthday. Yeah, absolutely, that was a silly question. 100% all in. You wanna do what you
love on your birthday. I’m lucky enough to
be doing what I love. – [Voiceover] Ben asks, “How do you handle

“people missing deadlines they set?” – Ben, this is an
interesting kinda question. Poorly, because usually I… Let me break this down, actually. The way I struggle, the way I react to people who set their own deadlines and miss them are predicated into the A and B bucket that I put them in, meaning, either I put you into a bucket where you’re a hardcore executor, you’re extremely reliable, you’re on your shit, you’re T’s and I’s and everything, and that’s what I value in you because that’s what you’re great at, if you miss a deadline, I am pissed, ’cause that’s what you do. Now if you’re in the magic category, gray, stumbling all over yourself, calling out sick randomly. Weird, but you got magic
and you make stuff happen, well I kind of think
you’re gonna miss your, I actually don’t even believe
you in the first place when you set a deadline. And so then I’m okay with
another two or three days. So I think it predicates completely on where I have you bucketed. And then are you actually
executing on that bucket. So that’s how I react to that question.

“to integrate with social media?” – I’m a big fan of 3D printing. I think if you play it out at scale, 3D printing is one of the most disruptive things going on that I think a lotta people talked about and it’s not the hot topic right now, which makes me feel like in 2019, 2022, it’s gonna pop and everybody’s
gonna be like, “What?” It’s kinda like the
Internet itself, right? After the dot com bubble burst in ’01 on Wall Street, people kind of didn’t realize the Internet was only growing and would really be a factor. Same thing with 3D printing. It got a lotta pizzazz. Now it’s a kind of soft period. Everyone’s talkin’ about the Ubers and the Airbnb’s. I think it’s gonna really rear its head in five to seven years. How it integrates into social is not interesting. I’m not trying to be disrespectful. I don’t think that’s interesting. I think what’s interesting is if you sell a physical good, between five and 100 dollars, I think you have real disruption coming up in five, 10, 15, 20 years. Like, nobody’s buying a
screwdriver in 15 years. You’re making one. And that’s intense. And then 3D printing gets into a real intense place, including people arguing about gun control in a world where people can be printing guns in their home. Like, who gives a shit about gun shows and permits. I’m printing it in my basement. So society will evolve. We will always adjust. You go show somebody who lived 150 years ago all the intensity we deal with, they would have thought that we woulda killed
ourselves off by now. Humans have a funny way to adjust. I’m in on team human. But don’t get it twisted. 3D printing is a massive disrupter. And over the next two decades, will rear it’s head for all of us.

“before you do something big? “Anything at all? “It doesn’t even have
to be business related.” – Clinton, the only thing
thing that I’m scared of, really, in a public setting, or that might sound big. This is what the #AskGaryVee
Show is for, right? We gotta show the 360. This is probably gonna be one of the more vulnerable things that
I’ve said on the show. I’m setting it up, but you’re all gonna be like, “What?” I am actually scared of reading in public because I’m come to learn in the last three or four years, I am atrocious reader. I really struggle with it. As a matter of fact, one of the big shifts
in 2015 that I’ve made is I’m making a lot more five
and seven minute meetings with my staff because I
don’t read fast enough for the value of my time. Even when I read to
Misha, believe it or not, I’m like a quarter of an inch hesistant. Like, if I had to create
the greatest story off the top of my head, right now, for Misha, I feel cozy and calm. Reading Goodnight Moon,
I’m like (humming). I’m just a terrible reader. Like in Passover, reading
the things on the table. I don’t like to read. It’s funny, when I started getting asked to do TV shows, one of the reasons I didn’t want to do a TV show was I didn’t want to read off the chiron. And even when I did my wine web radio show on Sirius for nine months, my first commercial read was a disaster, probably the worst thing
I ever did publically. Guy came in, Sam Benrubi, big ups. Father of many of the
employees at VaynerMedia came in, he’s like, “Do
what Howard Stern does. “He can’t read either. “Just read it and then do your thing.” The second read was insanity ’cause I read it, I knew
what the Stella Artois, ironically a VaynerMedia client now, what that ad wanted to get off. And I did an incredible read. So I’m very improv. I know what I’m good at. I’m stunningly not scared of most things. I’m scared of snakes, somewhat of heights. I really am, ultimately, scared of dying. And weirdly enough, the first thing that came to mind was I really don’t wanna read in public. Badly. That is probably at the top of the list, believe it or not. And that’s kind of intriguing to me. It’s a funny kinda thing. That’s it? That’s it, huh?