#AskGaryVee Episode 109: Stupid Questions, Integrity, & Gary Gives Relationship Advice

– [Voiceover] Eduardo
asks, “I don’t understand “why I barely see @garyvee
in my Twitter feed “but all over on my Facebook account.” – Eduardo, great great
statement, great question. And the answer is because
of the attention graphs. What I don’t think people
understand is Twitter’s firehose, and this not
withstanding Chris Sacca’s amazing rant that I haven’t read so
I can’t even say that it’s amazing but the amazing
feedback to his amazing rant. He’s one of the great
investors of this generation, a good friend of mine,
I’m dying to read it. Chris, I promise, I will read it. Probably late August
when I’m with my family. While they’re sleeping
and I’m being a good dad but I have a chance to read. I think Twitter’s
firehose is just noisy and I’m tweeting away and I
think I even double checked that one to see if you were
following me and you are. It’s just busy and there’s
a ton of shit going through your stream and you’re just not seeing it. And now that I changed my profile picture and you don’t see the pink in the corner, you’re really missing
it so Facebook just has more attention as does
Instagram which is the best at this game,
Snapchat some level especially since you’re
holding it but using stream terminology, the
streams, Instagram one, Facebook two, Twitter three,
a lot will jump in and leave comments on this episode
of no for me it’s Twitter and I get that, people
that have done a better job keeping a small group of following down. But as an overall big data play, Facebook is winning that game,
it’s more obvious. I just think, even like
the UI, UX Facebook posts are bigger, I just think
that, I think Twitter’s noisy and I think the reason
I picked this question, cause I did forward
this one to you India, is because the question
is the point that I’m trying to make which is
you’re noticing it more because your noticing it more. Think about that.

– [Voiceover] Christopher
asks, “You get questions “all the time, some you
like, some you hate. “Do you feel there is such
thing as a stupid question?” – Chris, I’m not going to
go cliche here, I think that there’s probably an enormous
amount of stupid questions. There’s a lot of stupid people
with stupid points of view, but nobody gets to be the judge
and the jury of that stupid. What maybe stupid to me,
is not stupid to Staphon and vice versa and so thus I
think the judge and the jury, the person that makes the
decision whether it’s stupid is making that decision
and so I think, I think 99% of the questions people
ask me are stupid at some level truthfully, especially
when they’re the things that come most naturally to
me, cause people aren’t asking me questions in biophysics or the weather or traffic theory, I mean like actual traffic, not web traffic. People don’t ask me a
lot of questions about things that I’m not
knowledgable in so I think all of us when we have
a depth of knowledge of something can think
things are stupid because we know them well and others don’t. Stupids an ugly word by the
way, I hate that God damn word. The energy of the question
is there’s a human that decides if it’s
stupid or not and I think the politically correct
answer to this question is no, you learn from it
or in all that and I’m into being PC, I think,
you know I’m sure some of the homies
here thought I would go that route with this
answer but not India but DRock maybe,
he get’s tricked sometimes. And so that’s that guys, yes
there are stupid questions. This question’s (beep) amazing, go ahead.

“two years and she still
refuses to acknowledge their “relationship on social media, red flag?” – Ryan, your brother is in deep (beep). Any relationship that
is two years old where one of the people in
the relationship has not acknowledged it publically
on a social network platform is up to some scandalous (beep). Period, end of story. There’s nothing else to being said there. I don’t want to hear that you like to keep it private, on the DL, scandalous. (laughter) (chatting in background)

how do you keep your people motivated? – Tommy, thanks for the great question. Obviously, being one of the
great managers of all time this answer’s gonna come
very easy to you and very natural, I think you’ll get it. I spend a lot of time
thinking about motivation and I think the key for me is I try to motivate in a couple of ways. Number one by example,
I think my actions will always speak louder than my words so how I carry myself, how I interact
with everybody, how I live my life as a man I
think really matters as an executive, as a person, I think
everyone’s always watching. But I also think I equally
try to reverse engineer every single individual person, right. They’re just all different,
they all have different KPIs, different objectives,
they’re in different parts of their lives, some are married
some just had kids, some are trying to make more
money, some don’t want to have four roommates in
Brooklyn, so they’re grinding. So everybody’s got a
different thing and I think what’s important for me to
motivate is to do a great job listening to what makes
them tick, both when I have the few moments with them in person. Alex, get over here for a second. Let’s do a real life example
on the #AskGaryVee Show. Alex, what motivates you,
what are you excited about? – What am I excited about? In life? – Yeah, what motivates you in life? – I just like doing cool
(beep), that’s it pretty much. I want to be successful
and just do cool (beep), that’s basically why I’m here so you know. – Cool man, alright, get out of here. So, Alex is easy, he just
wants to do cool (beep). So that’s easy, we do tons of cool (beep). He’s check, he’s good, he’s motivated. And you go on and on and on and you try to figure out, was he
scared that he was on camera and is that the real
answer, like are they really gonna tell me the truth,
they never tell me the truth usually upfront, few and
far between and so it’s a constant behavioral HR driven reverse engineering what they care about. India and I had a pretty
intense conversation about her future ambitions,
remember you wanted to be the head of social
media for museums. I take that very seriously,
like I know these things about my peeps, this is
even before India was on the inner circle of this team, like I I remembered it
better than you did. – Yeah, that’s true, you did it’s true. – So I take enormous, you don’t get to be a great all time leader without being
a great all time leader. There’s a lot of work that
gets put into being good at what I do and I’m very,
very up to the challenge and so it’s predicated on an
enormous amount of listening which is why I’m such a
paradox because boy do I (beep) love to talk but the amount
of listening that I’m actually doing always surprises
people when they start going a couple of layers deeper so
the answer to your question is I motivate, Tommy, by
figuring out what every single person is ticked and wired like and what makes them roll and I also recognize that that changes every
single day and they have four to seven, twelve
milestone things that happen in their lives,
which will change the trajectory of their
ambitions, wants, hopes, and dreams and I need to be prepared for every single one of those
for all of them forever. – [Voiceover] Dylan asks “Do you
still believe that there’s

“integrity in the
communications industry?” – Dylan I want to too
and I think the answer is there absolutely is but I
think that there’s integrity, there’s very little integrity
in every single market, advertising, politics, sports, music. The reason integrity is so
attractive is it’s so hard. It’s far and few between and
integrity’s defined differently by everybody and I think
it’s interesting to watch. I actually think society
is giving people more room to be flawed, which is intriguing. I think the level of
integrity, the way integrity is viewed upon today I
think is in a much better place than it was by society
let’s say 50 years ago because I think we’re
now factoring in that nobody’s perfect and we’re making mistakes even by standards like
drugs and relationships and cheating, like intense
stuff, I think there’s an interesting evolution and I think that that’s allowed for a
little bit more gray and a little bit more if you’re
really on your high horse creating a scenario where
you judge integrity. But I think in a lot of ways
there’s plenty of integrity. I think there’s a ton of
integrity out there still. I’ve been saying this
a lot lately, I said on another video, are we gonna bang out that video that I did earlier today? – [Voiceover] Which one, we did four. – Yeah I know, the last one we did. – [Voiceover] The Twitter one? – Yeah, Staphon’s working on it? – [Voiceover] Yup. – In there I say, no I think
it was a different one. – [Voiceover] It was the other one. – It was in another one, I screwed up. But, I’m a big fan of this
thing that’s on my mind right now which is you find
what you’re looking for. You know, I see integrity everyday. Everyday and I think it’s
because I look for it and I look half glass full,
like this is Niagra Falls to me. Like this is a very full
glass and I think that plenty of people can see plenty
of what’s missing. I think that’s as much on you my man as it is on what’s actually
happening in the marketplace.