I did some start up
business, some small stuff. I’ve been sitting in the same
job from last six years growing, seeking out mentors,
been doing my thing. I’ve been trying out the
eBay thing and I just got hit yesterday when I first couple
sales so I’m super stoked on that and thankful for that. Shit, dude, I’m
fucking stoked right now. (group laughter) No, you know what, man? Before I ask the question,
I just want to say thank you for everything you do, man. I frickin’, I throw your name
out there anytime somebody stops five second to
listen to me say it. Everything that you
offer is frickin’ huge, man. My brothers, friends, coworkers,
I’m like Gary Vaynerchuk. They’re like Gary, Gary who? I’m like look him up right now,
follow everything he does. – Thank you, man. – [Jesse] So anyways,
I’m doing all the stuff. I’m everywhere right now
and I’m trying to figure out what is the next step. I’m mean I’m trying freaking
anything and I’m not in it, you know, I want to make money. I want you want
to be successful. – Of course. – [Jesse] There’s
no doubt about that. – But you want to be happy.
– [Jesse] Exactly. – You don’t want to buy–
– [Jesse] Not chasing money. – Not everybody wants
to buy the Jets. Right? And by the way,
by the way actually this, man this is the call-in
show is gonna be great. If I, if I want, if I didn’t love what I do
all 19 hours a day, then I wouldn’t be talking
shit about buying the Jets. I got lucky that the thing that I love most is
building big businesses. – [Jesse] Right. – If I loved, you know, being an
architect more than anything in life and that’s
what I gravitated to. Legos and
drawing when I was six, seven, nine, 12, 13 instead
of selling lemonade and selling flowers and selling
baseball cards then I would just be talking about coming
the greatest architect of all time and that wouldn’t
have maybe trillions. That would have made me
successful and rich and I get it or very honestly if I was wired,
by the way and this is why you like me so much, if I didn’t
have the DNA of a salesman and entrepreneur, I would
be a guidance counselor. – [Jesse] Right. – I love, I live for, bro, do
you know how much money I leave on the table by giving you this, by doing what
I’m doing right now? I’m leaving a lot. And by the way, it’s not
because I’m such a great guy. It’s because hearing you say
that in the beginning of this call is a greater high for me than any deal I’ve
ever closed in business. And that’s not
even close by the way. Having another human being
tell you that you’re having a positive impact on their life. I promise you this, you’re not
coming to my funeral because I made $1.7 trillion
in my career. You’re coming to my funeral
because I might have made you $1,700 more and tweaked you in
a place where you had 49 more years of happiness.
– [Jesse] Right. – Dude, honestly this is very
simple to answer your question. That’s why I went on
the little bit of a rant. What do you like
when you’re not working? Build a business around that. – [Jesse] Right.
– Like what you like? I gotta tell you right now
this whole VaynerSports thing, I’m getting scared. I might shut it all down.
I’m in love with it. Havin’ these football
players sit at VaynerMedia. Jon Toth yesterday,
offensive lineman, center for Kentucky going to be, he’s going to be on
the Packers in six months. It’s the weirdest thing. Alvin Kamara is gonna rush
for 137 yards on a Sunday and I’m gonna be like, “Wait a
minute, that’s my dude.” It’s crazy and I love it
and watching AJ’s happiness. He’s not gonna make anywhere
close to as much as he did at VaynerMedia but watching
the happiness in his heart, what do you like? Surfing?
What do you like? T-shirts?
What do you like? Hip hop?
What do you like? – [Jesse] I think
that I like, to be honest, for a while it’s like an
extreme sports thing but now what is is building people. That’s what I like. I like seeing other
people be successful. – And I think you know this,
I’m very scared of the life coach business because I think people are
ripping people off. So as long as you
feel good about it. Here’s an idea, what
about starting a club? What about, what about… Dude, there’s so
much shit you can do. Let me throw you rogue ass shit. Why don’t you get a job at night
at a restaurant where you tell the owner that you want to work
as a bartender because you want to start a club in his
restaurant or her restaurant every Wednesday night for
aspiring entrepreneurs or for people that want
to live better lives. So the exchange is I, who am
way over qualified for this job, am going to work here three
nights a week and I’m going to meet people that come here and I’m gonna start a
club in your restaurant. And then what you’re going to do
is once you test out what a club and group together at
a restaurant looks like, you may then go get investors
or buy your own or save money or sell everything on
eBay and get your own. Do shit is the answer. Do you understand?
– [Jesse] Right. Totally, and on that the
craziest shit about what you just said is
that today at 11:30, I actually orchestrated three
weeks ago starting a club at my business, the company that
I work at and the first day of the club starts today. We’re going into leadership
and I’m going to help do my best help and learn from other
people in the company who want to be bigger, who want to be better,
who want to do more and not just to work. – Can I ask you a question?
– [Jesse] Absolutely. – Off of that,
what just happened, When do you think the world’s
gonna realize that I’m actually a genie from a different planet? That stuff freaks me
out when, it’s so cool. Anyway, listen, my man,
keep focusing on this. I like vibe of your voice. That’s one of
the reasons, I kinda, I’m very big on tone and energy. That’s why the call-in show is
going to be better because when I read it,
I don’t have the tone. I can tell the goodness
coming out of your mouth. I can feel it.
Let me tell you this. It sounds like
you’re fairly young, how old are you? 29?
– [Jesse] 26. – Good.
Patience, brother. Keep doing good, keep bringing
people value and don’t think about what’s in it for you. What’s in it for you will happen
when you are purely pushing to bring people value.
Shit just happens. – [Jesse] Hell yeah.
– And you got time, brother. You’ve got five years, do me
a favor don’t try to charge a $1,000 a head or
$500 a month, do this. Just keep bringing value and
I’m telling you for five years online and offline, random,
just keep bringing value. It will also work itself out,
you’ve got a lot of time to cash in on doing that could move. – [Jesse] That’s what
I’m going to do. – Alright brother, take care. – [Jesse] You too, bye.
– Bye.

and I’m just going to basically one by one try to
build this clientele. – So here’s, let me
give you some advice. Couple things. When you don’t have lots
of funding or money and you’re starting at zero,
you’ve got time. Your asset and so many people
listening right now that want to do what they want
to do, they have time. Time is their currency
and your hustle. Right? – [Angelica] Right. – So you watch a
little less GaryVee, you watch a little less Netflix, you watch a little
less Dallas Cowboys. You do a little bit less yoga or
whatever the hell your life is about and what you do is you go
and ask for business but if you get a bunch of no’s you convert
very quickly in doing one or two or three pro bono. Pick ones, do the work for free
but pick ones that are big and will give you exposure and you
giving free work will give you leverage of the logo
getting you other work. Got it?
– [Angelica] Right. Right, that’s perfect. That’s exactly our first
client that’s what we’re doing. – Love it. – [Angelica] We’re
not asking for a thing. We’re just asking for
basically, you know,– – Word of mouth. Yep, a logo.
You got it. – [Angelica] and to
get it going. – Well then you
are well on your way. Congrats. Go ahead. – [Angelica] (inaudible) to you. Basically I’m 24/7 GaryVee. (group laughter)
– Well, I appreciate it. Make it 23/7 GaryVee. I love it.
Have a great holiday. – [Angelica] You
too and thank you.

I get four days on and four days
off and what I want to do as a side thing is market, we have restaurants
around where I live in the Portland area that don’t
even have a Facebook page and that’s crazy to me because it’s just old people
running their restaurant. – Yep. – [Levi] I feel like if they
would give me a chance to go on their Facebook,
go on their Instagram– – Let me give you, Levi, let me give you a
great piece of advice. Do it for free at first,
have five clients and then you can use them to
show other people. The amount of people that are
not willing to do stuff for free at first to create case studies. Phil Toronto in this room
right now is my right hand man in all my investments. What did he do? He interned for
free for a long time. DRock made a free film. Made a free film and
now he’s DRock. Right? Tyler, well Tyler, but anyway.
(group laughter) Levi, you’ve
gotta go free on this. Go and do two, when you’re
doing whatever you’re doing, whoever you like the most when
you’re in their restaurants you like the couple,
you think they’re sweet offer to do the
services for free. They become your case studies
then you charge $100 a month, then you charge $500 a month,
then you build a business. People aren’t willing to eat
shit in a 2017 world and that’s why so many people’s
businesses haven’t started. – [Levi] Awesome,
that’s great advice. I’m gonna do it. I’m just gonna
go out and look– – Keep me updated.
Call back in in a month. Keep me updated.
Love you, see ya. I like Levi. (dial tone)
This is fun.

– Gary, what’s going on? It’s Captain Cory
from CaptCory.tv and the Captain’s Vlog on YouTube. I’m in the back of the airplane
because it’s more quiet but I got a couple
questions for you. First off, Gary aside for your
incredible interpersonal skills, what would you say is the most
important leadership quality that you deploy amongst
those that you lead? And the second part
of that question, what are two important
leadership qualities that we as young leaders can develop
that’ll make us more effective as leaders and have a greater
influence and make a bigger difference amongst those? Appreciate all you do.
Love the show. I’m not watching as much any
more ’cause I’m grinding and hustling but love it.
Love what you do, man. If you ever need
a ride too, man, let me know. – That’s good. That’s my big thesis
by the way, Oliver. Unlike a lot of people, I actually want my audience
of people to decline– – Sure. – because I want to inspire
people to actually go do. – Right. – The amount of
reading all our books, watching all our stuff,
that’s fine and I like that. – Yep. My tagline’s always
been I get shit done. Just get it done. – You’ve been a successful
leader in your companies, what’s the biggest thing
that has really worked for you? – I think being humanistic which
is a word that I don’t think many people, especially
in this country, use. But there’s a real value
to putting humans first. And it sounds so trite but
there’s a real value to having empathy and putting humans
first and looking at them from a perspective that you can
say, how do I help you grow? What is both this sympathy parts
and the nourishment parts that are going to help you realize
your potential as a person? And I’ve started
seven companies now and made a lot of mistakes. Human resources is the hardest
thing to do at scaling a company because I always make
the joke they are neither a resource nor human,
human resources. And so–
– That’s why the head of mine is called Chief Heart
Officer, Claude. Claude is the number two person in this company
and everybody knows it. It is the foundation at
Vayner because we sell people. – Yep, exactly and so, I mean
you’re in a service business, in a content business so
that makes sense and so I think taking a lens of humanism has
been the biggest gift for me. It’s one of the reasons
I moved to Iceland. You have a humanistic society that doesn’t punish people
for their weaknesses. – I like that. – You have no poverty,
you have no homelessness. You have reform
instead of prison. Big, important things especially
coming from a place like Mississippi where I was born. You look at that and
that’s a place where people are not
treated like humans. There are systems in place. I remember with American Express
we made a movie called “Spent” about payday lenders in America. Talk about your
audience and the pains. That’s $1 trillion business
in America that is parasitic. – Yep. – It adds no value to
the system whatsoever. In Iceland, a human human right is to be able to
access your money. – Sure. – Here we have the basic
principles of our economy are inaccessible in my hometown to
80% of the people have to go to a payday lender and a check
cashing place and spend a percentage of their income just to take just to be able
to spend their money. That is not humanistic. That is counter to anything that will help a system
grow and evolve. – I couldn’t agree
more with the human– – Not to rant about
payday lenders but fuck– – but it’s a valid point and
I think from my standpoint it’s listening and
it’s self-awareness. I think the biggest mistake
charismatic CEOs make is they try to fake the funk and act
like they know everything. – Mhmmm. – I always feel like I think
I know everything and lot of you leave
comments about ego. Only ’cause I stay in my lane. There’s a very narrow
world where I’m very good. I tend to never go out of it. You notice how
I have social media and business people
on the show. This is not a healthcare expert. We’re not talking about
hair dying activities. This is not, nobody’s gonna be
on the show talking about how to raise cattle because I’m not
gonna put myself in a position where I do not know what
the fuck I am talking about. – Right. – And so being all-in on what
you know and then being very empathetic and listening and deploying humility against
the things you don’t know. People pick up on
that real, real, real fast. Because when you come across
somebody that works for you that does know the thing that
your bullshitting about and you bullshit it,
you just lost a winner. – Yep.
– You’ve just lost a winner. – It’s about building
that trusted relationship at every level of all of this. – I got to get the
hell out of here.

– What’s up Gary and team? Hadi Yousef here.
Off of your inspiration, I started vlogging my
startup journey. I’ve been interacting with
online communities like the great Vayner Nation and
just making sure that I’m putting out good content. But aside from patience and
thinking about the long game, what are some things that
someone like me should be doing to grow his audience?
Thanks a lot. – So I think one thing that
stands out for me and then you’ll jump in Jason is
I think more real-life stuff. Like every meetup.
– Sure. – Like Jase, you might remember
this, when I first got, it’s really fun to get your
perspective on this. When I first came
into the ecosystem,– – Yeah. – I was pouring wine at a
Jaiku, Leo Laporte meetup. – Yeah. You were the wine guy.
– Yeah, I was– – You were more
like, who’s that guy? – I was service.
I was the help. – Basically, I mean
I didn’t want to say it but it’s kinda true.
– And so like– – They’re like we
need wine here. – And meanwhile, and meanwhile I had the biggest
business in the room. – For sure. – Everybody else had
business on paper. – Yeah. – I actually had a business but
I was willing to earn my keep in to the ecosystem. That’s the advice I would
give here which is if you’re documenting your journey,
amazing but go to every I mean Israel is such a
hotbed for tech startups and just startups in general. Go to every meetup,
meet every person, be part of the ecosystem. I think you did
that extremely well. – Be everywhere.
– That’s right. – When I started Silicon
Alley Reporter here I wore a Silicon Alley Reporter
shirt every day. I had 20 of them so I was the
brand and I would show up at every party and I’d have
copies of the magazine. You have to be the brand and
you have to be everywhere but a little hack for him might be is
be the most intelligent question under the most important people’s blog posts
or their tweets. In other words,
really take your time. Forget about building your own
content and your own audience, find somebody who’s got an
audience that you would like to acquire and be the most
intelligent person in their ecosystem for a while.
– Love that. – Which is kind of what you did. You’d meet the guy you’d be like
this guy is passionate about wine but I’m here to see Leo
but this guy’s also kind of interesting too, right? And so you can put yourself in
Fred Wilson’s comments on AVC it’s like who are these people writing highly
intelligent comments? – You know what this is
really smart, especially in the Facebook ecosystem where if it’s
actually that, it populates up. – Yeah, they trend it up.
The best comment goes up. But this takes time and you
have to not be thinking about yourself with your comment. That’s the problem I think. People are trying to build a
brand so they think it’s about– – They’re pitching instead of
bringing value to the community of the micro community
within that blog post. – Correct.
– Yep. – What is the topic
we’re talking about– – Yep. – and how do you say
something highly intelligent and further the conversation? – And to you, because you
don’t come from 20 years of experience, 30 years experience
you need to put your lens on it. By the way, there’s a lot of
people reading comments on those blogs that are just like you,
entrepreneurs are trying to make it than us reading it. – We’re not
reading the comments. – So you saying here’s my
perspective from an Israeli led startup that from a
23-year-old’s perspective, you’ll get a lot
of juice from that. You need to own it. There’s way too many people
trying to fake the funk right now that their so genius
business people and they have no experience under
their fingernails. – There’s nothing more, I think,
appealing than somebody who’s a young entrepreneur saying I really don’t
understand how this works. Can somebody explain it to me or
help me because I really would like to be successful? People will come
out and help you. – 100% if you deploy the
humility and don’t fake it. – Yeah, there’s no
reason to fake it. – Well everybody does it.
And by the way, I’ve been there. When you’re not there yet,
you kinda wanna, you want to, I used to say yes and this.
It just was not smart. I should have said please
tell me and this and that. I would have got there faster. – In my meetings, any time a
word comes up that I don’t know, I say, “What does that mean?”
In a business meeting– – I wouldn’t even have meetings
then I’m terrible at vocab. – No but when you have to pitch
and someone’s like oh do you know about this?
And I’m like what is that? And I just say explain
to me what that is. And they’re like oh
it’s an acronym for this. And now I’m like now
I’m getting smarter. – Yeah. 100%.
– Right? – India, let’s more this.
I know we got a call.

My name is Bryan AKA MindofBun,
I’m on the app Musical.ly and I have a following of
over 600,000 people. Not only that but I’m one of
four Musical.ly reps that live in New York City. So my question is
I don’t know what to do next. I feel like I’m
stuck in a plateau. I don’t know what to do next. I love making these videos,
not only on Musical.ly but I’m also pushing
everybody to YouTube, too. I ask this question because
I have friends who have less followers than me who have
managers and people who I know that have millions of fans who
don’t even have managers or they don’t even know what to do. So, what should I do
next with this following? Do I go out there and look
for companies or brand deals or should I link up with the
manager or what should I do? I put my business email out
there and I’m not always getting emails every day or something. I am patient, I do wait but
lately I just trying to figure out a way to get a source of
income from this because, again, I do love doing this, I love
doing this but at the end of the day I still have my mom
harassing me saying A, are you gonna get
a job or this and that? And yeah, so Gary
what should I do? – Jason, it’s fun to have
you here with this question. Good job by you guys curating
because again we lived through early bloggers getting famous–
– Sure. – then Twitter was really
the first preview to this– – Sure. – where both of us were lucky
enough to be one of those 100, 150 people that
everybody was following. – Sure. – What kind of advice do you
give to, I’m paying a lot of attention to the
Musical.ly stars. – Sure.
– This is the youngest generation of stars
we’ve ever seen. You’re making a joke of
VaynerMedia being young,– – I know. – We’re talking about 9,
10, 11, 12-year-old stars. – Yeah. – Like it’s, it’s Nickelodeon
up in Musical.ly right out. What’s your advice for this? – Well, I mean what
is the goal here? Does the person want to be, do they actually
have any raw talent? Are they actually a musician? Are they actually a singer or
are they just kind of becoming popular for doing– – Do you think that’s possibly
becoming just talent in itself? – That’s a good question. – Like you said that and
I’m debating it myself. – Right. Do you
actually have a skill? So what I think is adding skills to your repertoire like
that can only help you. So if learn an instrument,
if you actually learn to sing then you can kind of
take it to the next level. So when you saw Justin Bieber
on YouTube it was like, “Yeah, he’s a YouTube star but
he actually had core talent.” – No, he was a real talent.
– He was a real talent. Then you look at
somebody like King Bach. – Yes.
– On Vine,– – Yes. – he was the number
one guy for a while. Probably still is.
He actually is funny. – He’s a real comedian.
– He’s a real comedian. – Actor.
– Actor. – Yes.
– He’s a comedic actor. – Yes. – So I think adding skills when
you’re a young person is one thing that this
generation got backwards. – That’s a good point. – They go get the
fame and it’s great. You can hit that lightning in
a bottle but get that skill you can, it can never be
taken away from you. – Yeah, I think networking. I think just even asking this question like, for example,
I’m interested. I’m spending more time in
Musical.ly so let’s get this kid into my office, I want to
meet him for 20 minutes. And you just need to do
that over and over, right? – Yeah. – How many people have been able
to get to you and met for 15 or 30 minutes just by pounding you on social and email
through the last decade? Give me a rough estimate of
numbers because I know– – Over a thousand.
– That’s it. – Over a thousand,
it takes time. – You, right and some people
they email you one time and you gave them 15 minutes and some
people have emailed you 37,000 times and you’ve
never talked to them. – Exactly.
– That’s the punchline. – I look at the quality like I look for people with
skill but that’s me. – But you know this, it’s a
subjective moment in time. – Sure. – Like at that moment
it felt like, right? – Yeah.
– I mean it’s a crap shoot. – Yeah but you know what? It’s a numbers game, if you,
one of the things is I had, I have a portfolio company that
raised money from seven people and they’re like we can’t raise any more money,
it’s not working. I’m like well, how’d
you get the first seven? They’re like well, we
met with a ton of people. I said how many
people did you meet? They said 15. I was like so you can raise
money from 50% of the people you meet with and now you met with
another five, you didn’t get an investor so you’re quitting?
– Soft. – So soft.
– Soft! – You got to do at least 50
meetings and what you do is you take notes after every meeting
and you ask people candidly why did you pass on investing? The way you can help me,
I understand you’re passing, can you just tell me the truth? – Interesting. – Be candid with me
and tell me why I suck. – I love that.
– Or tell me what I need to work on.
You know what? People will do it if you give
them permission to speak freely. – Love it. India,
let’s move it forward. By the way, I’m serious,
I want to meet the kid. Make it happen. – [Jason] Hey-o!
– Manu.

“channel, what do you suggest
people do in order to accumulate “more subscribers and views?
Anything absolutely necessary “or does it all just
come down to patience?” – I wanted to answer this because I thought this would bring a lot of people value. There’s so many of you, that hear patience. And then you just think, okay, I’m just gonna continue to make shows and content, and you’re gonna wake
up four years later, going from
85 subscribers to 219. And I don’t wanna
be on the hook for wasting your time. You have to understand, and I talk about this a lot, and you guys hear it
from me a lot actually. A lot of the homies that
are sitting out there, distribution. Distribution is the game. So what do you do
when you have 85 people following your channel? Or 200 or even 2,000, or even 20,000, or even 200,000, is you need to understand that you need to keep hustling
for your awareness. Of course, and just so
everybody knows this, of course your show has to be good. You have to continue to
make your craft strong, you have to continue
to be interesting, you have to
continue to bring value and produce good content. But, you need people
to know about it. And so I think one reason
I’ve always done well is I understood that. And so one of the great ways to do that is collaborations. I think if you’ve
got a YouTube channel, you need to
basically reach out to, I don’t know,
the other 7,000 people, that are in your genre. And reach out to them, and see if you can
bring them value, right? Hars, you love UFC, you decided to start a channel. You need to reach to
the 40,000 UFC channels and be like, hey,
I’m in the network, so I go to gyms, I could get you original content, can you put me on your show, to bring me value for my show? When you have 44 viewers, you can’t offer somebody
who has 400,000 viewers, let’s trade, you’ll be on my show, I’ll be on your show. You’ll get laughed
out of the room, and people do that. That’s not the way
you’re gonna win, that’s not 51-49. What you can offer
is something in return. What you can offer is access, because you’re in those gyms, with original content. So maybe you can be doing on location interviewing, for that big UFC thing. And then, you know, and
then for yourself too. And then that
person puts you on. You could offer money,
if you’ve got it. That’s fine. I mean, whatever it is,
so it’s about distribution. So collaboration with
other YouTube shows for sure, social media
through and through, creating enormous
amounts of content. Spending even more
time paying attention to how people are building organic followings on Instagram. And hashtag
culture really works. For the people
that are really patient. And I ebb and flow
with my hashtag work, Dunk, you do a good job with me on Musical.ly. You’re like this is
the one that works. Just, I would even argue that I’m being lazy
with my hashtag work in Instagram, for sure. But for a lot of you, you have to go down that route. It really, really, really works. And then reverse engineering, content creation, let me explain. As we speak right now, I have a video going viral. It’s called August. I made it so we could
run it on August 1st. Producing content that
you know has a chance of going somewhere, based
on when you make it. A Monday morning rant that you post on Monday morning. Making relevant content to what’s going on in the world, either in pop culture. You know, your thoughts
on what Miley Cyrus did on Wrecking Ball. Or the Kanye and Taylor Swift, Kim and Kanye, Taylor Swift fight. Or the Olympics starting. Making content that’s relevant, that gives it a
little bit of legs for shareability
is very important, from the content creation. Look, there’s only two things, the content and distribution. And so whether it’s
becoming a part of forums around UFC, I keep using yours. Become a member of forums. Become a member
of Facebook groups. Most of you are
not hustling distribution. You’re focusing on the content, and you think magically, if you keep patient, and you keep doing it, something’s gonna happen. Nothing’s gonna happen. For four of you, all time. For four of you here,
something’s gonna happen. That little motivational kid, right? The Jamaican trainer kid, that went viral
over the weekend, somebody clearly
posted that video and it started the process. It’s great content. Like, that’s clearly
content that’s got a shot. But he’s putting out
content for a little while. This is not his first rodeo. And so yes, it happens, right? Yes, it happens. But it’s far more
interesting for you to take control
of your distribution through collaborations, through proper
hashtag distribution on the Instagram world, from reaching out, biz dev-ing.
Reaching out. Being a part of forums, and other internet communities like Facebook groups, to become part
of that community, so when you put out stuff, people wanna support you. I would tell you, with Wine Library TV, I spent 20 minutes
making the video, and I spent five hours
creating the distribution. A day. That’s a great way to end that. That’s the answer. – [India] That’s good.

My name Harold Valestin, real
estate broker, sales trainer, motivational speaker. My question to you Frederik
is in the early years of your career how did you build
and continually contact your database and now that the show’s
so popular and given you many more opportunities how
are you guys managing that? Thank you.
I appreciate your time. – In the very beginning of my
career once again I sat all by myself I had no one
helping me no one mentoring– – Did you work at a firm? – Yeah, a very small firm
with six agents in West Chelsea. I came off the shrimp
boat not knowing anything– – What made you come here? You just knew? – Yeah, I knew because I
came here when I was 10. – Tasted it. – I was so in love with the
energy and the neon and the danger and the–
– Game. – Not so much the
money the whole thing. I come from Sweden it’s very
calm and beautiful and old. No, my family is there.
I love it. I come back. But I mean New York.
You know? So for 20 years I was
frustrated not living here so I came, then finally bam. – So in the early years
you’re in a small place. – I was by myself–
– learning the craft. – Yeah, I think I never
really had a database to answer the question. I never and I need
to be better at that. I don’t, what I do is I see
every single person that I meet including you because you’re
gonna buy your next apartment from me as a potential
commission check walking around with little four legs unsigned. – That’s what I am.
– Exactly, that’s what you are. Every person it’s
an opportunity. – I’m a big one. – My first open house all these
people that came in I just turn them over into new
clients and listing inventory. I’m so scared, I know in my
heart, that this is the last month, my prime, it’s over. Last year was the best year. That’s how I feel.
Do you like that? – Always. – Yes and I wake up eery
morning like I’m going down. – You’re only as good
as your last at-bat. – Yes. I need to (growls).
What? What’s so funny? – I fucking love it.
– Okay, good. – I want to growl too. I just got to figure out how
I’m going to say (growls) I gotta find, you know what?
I think that’s right. To me, I never think anything
that I’ve accomplished yesterday means anything for tomorrow. – Yes, exactly. You’re never cooler
than your last deal. Video, whatever. – 100%. 100%. – [India] Last one?
– Yes.

– [Voiceover] Bartosz asks,
“Where do you see the coffee “industry going in terms of
gastronomy in coffee shops?” – That’s a good question. The coffee industry. – The coffee industry, first of
all, it’s started from Ethiopia and places like that in that
region but now I think you have 80 countries producing coffee
so that’s like it’s very, very very global right now, right? So I still think we’re just here
in terms of intense beans and intense of the coffee culture–
– Reminds me of the wine business in the ’90s. – Exactly, so the mixing I think
we’ll see more coffee and wine bars together where you have
coffee in the cocktail the way you see fresh juices
going in with cocktails now. That will happen. – You know what’s
so interesting? I’ve been thinking of the
concept of a bar that is just 24/7 because and it goes from coffee to juices to tea to wine to post-game. Really I think there is a really
interesting model from a place that’s open 5:30 AM
to four in the morning in New York that is very hard-core structured
around 4 to 6 different. – Sure.
– Afternoon tea. – Mhmmm. Coffee, juices,
afternoon tea, wine. – But all of the same, what
we’re talking about here is they have intense flavors, right? Because that coffee and and that
juice is based on intensity. – Yes. – Espresso with fresh juice
mixed with let’s say ginger and orange. People today want
intense flavors. They want smaller shots of
something but really intense. So that can be done. – Wet bar something. It’s just like liquid. – Oh we’re thinking names now. – I just want to open it.
I may. India? – [India] Last one from Tommy.
– Tommy.

– Dana. – The first one (inaudible)
this question because I know you probably don’t have
as much background. – [Gary] Yes. – I applaud NASCAR for really
stepping up their social media game recently, in what areas do
you think they could improve or suggest on them to improve? – So what is your point of view
because you’re right I don’t have as much context. – I think it is– – What’s happening
with the top stars? Top 10 guys right now, how
are there rolling in social? Anybody in the top 10 crew? Not that you want to
call out or knock on. – I think they’re doing good. – Is it a conversation
with the driver? Do you hear people
talking about it? – Yeah, I mean in my opinion
the leader of the pack is Dale Jr which he’s– – I remember that
from Mountain Dew, we’re on Mountain Dew from four years ago I knew
it was in his world. – That falls in his lap because
NASCAR gravitates towards him. The fans love him.
– Course. – But what I appreciate about
Dale Jr is I feel like he’s got smart people around him that
have taken advantage of that and they have gotten him very well educated on
how to be on Twitter and getting into Instagram
and they’ve got radio show and podcast. And he’s doing a really,
really, really good job. – That’s awesome. – I feel like the challenges,
there’s probably a group of drivers that are just
from a generation that just don’t need to. They’ve made their living
racing cars for a long time. Their form of sponsor relations is appearances–
– Television commercial. – doing the same things
the last 20 years so for them to adapt to Snapchat and Twitter,
I mean they’re all on Twitter but it’s a matter of
what are you doing. – Who’s doing it? Is them?
Duh, duh, duh. – Yeah. – And what about
NASCAR as a whole? – I think NASCAR has taken a
very serious move at social media recently. Whether it’s like we talked
about the Snapchat. I took over their Snapchat. Their Snapchat story on the
race weekend is phenomenal. I would love to see more during
the week and see what else is going on. I would even love to see
in the NASCAR offices and things like that. – I honestly think that’s your
whitespace for your daily vlog that you’re about to do soon. – Yep.
– I can’t wait. I fully expect it to be
live within two weeks. – Yeah, absolutely. – There’s no reason to really. There’s plenty of
leads in there. – Just gotta get my wife’s
permission were good to go. – That’s fine. What is your wife’s name? – Caitlin.
– Caitlin, please.