“from telling blatant
lies about my business, “without stooping to their level?” – Craig, by recognizing those blatant lies have no impact on your future. Now, stick with me here. It’s hard, because you’ll say, “no way, Gary, it’s already had an impact. This person stopped working
with me because of that lie.” Net net with me, my friend. Net net with me. If they’re lies, and they may not be, let’s first make sure
they’re lies, my man. But if they’re lies, you will win. Lies have been, people have
tried that tactic on me, you will never, ever win that game if you’re on the lying end. Like, the truth is undefeated. You just have to be patient. So, the fact of the matter is, that’s too much on your mind. By you even asking me this
question, it’s bubbled up, and it’s really no different, and I’m sorry to use this, ’cause it’s an extreme version of it, and it’s obviously top
of everybody’s mind. It’s really, in some weird way,
no different than terrorism. Like, terrorism works
because people get scared, and that’s propaganda. Right? And of course things happen, but what they’re trying to
do is get people not to fly, not to go to Europe,
like, all these things. They scare you, they make these videos and say “we’re gonna go
after all these places” to scare people in those places. That’s how it works. That’s what that is as
well, which is like, they’re trying to propaganda your clients into believing that. But when there’s a net result a year later, two years later, when people are like, “oh,
Gary’s just good at Twitter. VaynerMedia’s not,” I mean, you know people said
VaynerMedia was gonna fail because I’m just a social media pundit, I’m just bullshit and
pizzazz, I’m all this? Well, they lost. Because now here we are. And so as long as you’re
confident in your execution, please do not spend time
going on the defense against your competitors
who are lying about you. Just go do your thing and let the results show for themselves. This is a very important thing. People get way too hung up on their negative comments on YouTube, the competition making lies about them. The results always speak for themselves. Marky Mark was not gonna
transition into a real celebrity, until Mark Wahlberg did it. Justin Bieber was always
just gonna be a teeny bopper until he put out fire. Right? Like, the truth always wins. Period. – [India] Nice.

“or quarters and elevate the team “to the level only Gary could. “The owner has to see some
value in your methods. “Seems like this might be something “more realistic and attained sooner. “Is it all or nothing?” – James, it’s all or nothing mainly because the owner’s not interested. I mean, Woody Johnson is a billionaire. He’s doing his thing. He’s not outwardly reaching out to me. He’s rolling in going about his merry way. And that’s that. And he’s in control of that situation. I’m not worried about it. I’m focusing on what I can control, which is amass enough wealth and power and opportunity and narrative
and leverage and branding to give me the best shot
to actually pull this off. And so that’s why. Plus I would never go in for an ask. Right, I would never be like “Hello Mr. Johnson, why don’t you “sell me 25% of the company”
or things of that nature. Just not in me. I’m going to take it if I deserve it. I’ll get it if I’m good enough. And so I’m focusing
every piece of my energy doing things to put me in that position because the amount of luck and serendipity that has to happen for me
to even get that at bat, literally the passing of the company on, whatever Woody decides to do with it, hopefully, hopefully he
owns it his whole life and hopefully he lives
for a very long time and hopefully because I’m much younger I’m there in a position
to make that purchase if his family doesn’t
want to hold onto it. So there’s just a million
different variables that come into play that
have to fall into place but I just need to focus
on what I can control and really for everybody,
that’s the biggest thing. Way too many of you, and I’ve been really digging into my community in
the last three or four days. A lot of, this has actually turned into a really good question. A lot of you just worrying
about shit you can’t control. Like, it’s unbelievable. I don’t know what’s the matter with you. Like you can’t control it, the end. Like it’s not super complicated. You can’t control the weather. You can’t. Like, people literally
crying that it rained during their like flea market or food fair or I don’t remember exactly what it was. Like, okay. But like, like, and then
like, then I was like okay maybe it was just a single rant. But like seven tweets, I’m like wha. Like it rained. Like Mother Nature (censored) you. Take it like a woman. And like, you know, and so, you know. I just don’t believe in crying over things you can not control. And so I just think about
the things I can control and so please try to take this answer and understand how important it is to not dwell but instead reverse it and think about what you can
be doing during that time. You know if it rained, when it rained during times I’ve done flea markets, I packed up and went dollar
store and Toys R Us shopping. You know, I didn’t just
sit there and take my rain.

“you do, but I also hate
you because I’m a little “jelly of your success. “How can I get past that?” – Like jelly, like Beyonce jelly? Like, my toned ass, or. (laughs) I’m jealous, I understand. (laughs) Thanks for the reaction,
you thought I was confused? I’m not confused. – [India] (mumbles) How
can I get past that? I’m jelly of your success. – Yeah, I get it. I mean look, I think being
jealous of my success is good. I’m jealous of other people’s
success, but not really. Meaning, try to change it from a negative to a positive. I’m inspired by people’s
success, even though being inspired by
somebody, and being jealous of them is literally just
an inch off and they’re cousins, they’re kissing cousins. Being inspired by somebody, being jealous of someone, is literally
a kissing cousin’s game, and so, I’m too egotistical
to say that I’m jealous of somebody, but I’m definitely motivated and recognize, much like the last answer, the results are the results. I’m talking big shit, guys. Like I don’t know if you
understand what I’m doing. I’m really setting myself up for failure. I’ve told the world that
I’m gonna buy the New York Jets. I need to amass 10 billion dollars to buy the New York Jets. If I amass 1 billion dollars,
a stunning percentage of the people watching
the show will define me as not winning. Because the narrative has been built, that this is my thing. Like, do you understand
that when Woody Johnson decides to sell, or passes
away, and the estate’s up for sale, in 20, 30
years, god, Woody, 50 years for you, god bless, whatever, but whenever that happens, if I’m not
the person at that point with the narrative I’m
gonna paint all these years that buys it, people will
be like, oh sorry, Gary, and whatever the Twitter or the Facebook of the world then is, which
is gonna be even worse, because it’s probably
gonna be like holograms and people are just gonna
just pop up and be like, sorry. I mean, you’re literally
gonna have Princess Leia, 58 million Princess Leias
being like, sorry dude, really wish you got it. I’m just gonna be loser city USA. I’m setting myself up
because, what’s the question? – [India] How she was helping– (coughs) – Jealous. Because, you know, you
know because I haven’t, I put myself in such a
weird position of insane success to justify success
in the narrative that I’m painting. So I’m inspired and I’m
challenged by the people. My friend Travis can buy the Jets. I mean he did it. Like this was my homie
that I hung out with five minutes ago. Then like, I introduced
that Tahoe Tech talk 2009. This is the guy that none
of you know on this panel, but you’re all gonna know him, which I’m trying to figure
out if I’m film of. Like, it’s amazing. It’s amazing. So anyway, those kind of people. I’m not jealous of Travis,
I’m inspired that he executed it at that level. So I would say that, man,
just like make a little switch in your DNA and understand, being jealous of me or anybody else, me being jealous, you guys, anybody being
je, jealous is a really backwards defensive trait. It’s gonna do you absolutely no good. Switching it slightly
into, I’m inspired by that and I wanna climb higher
than that is a really good place to go. So you need to instill
a little more goodness and get a load of the
badness out of there. I think the way to get
badness out is to talk it out. This is why I think everybody
should see a therapist or have some outlet to get bad. You needed out, you need to talk out bad. Bad staying in your heart and soul will corrode you, and it’s a cancer. Spit out your bad. Too many people use
their loved ones or their closest person as the person they spit to, and that person has a weird
relationship with them. Find your outlet. My mom and I use each
other because we’re able to connect. We got lucky.
We can handle it. But if you don’t have that
lucky relationship, you need to find a different outlet.

“with someone who is constantly negative “about entrepreneurship?
And what if it’s your mom?” – Louie, I I think the biggest way
to handle that is to stick it to your mom. I think you go out and you execute, and then you tell your mom I told you so. You were wrong mom. You know what’s great
about entrepreneurship? The market, business, life is it’s a net net gain, meaning at the end of the day,
either your mom’s right or you’re right. She’s negative about
entrepreneurship with you. Louie, she doesn’t think you can do it. I don’t think your mom, over arching doesn’t believe that
entrepreneurship exists or is an option. She just doesn’t believe in you. Now, I’m drilling you right now, because I’m trying to light a fire in your ass to be like, really pissed, the way I get. Nothing excites me more
than the adrenaline that I get. Right now I’m fired up for you Louie. I’m making pretend that I’m you Louie, and I’m so god damn pissed. I wanna literally punch
my mom in the face. That’s how I feel, and so, but like figuratively. I’m not condoning
violence against your mom. My moms my favorite person on earth. My mom is the compete opposite. No one believed in me more or ever will. That being said Louie, she doesn’t not believe
in entrepreneurship. She doesn’t believe that
you’re an entrepreneur. Now the question is back to my self-awareness
content that I’ve been pushing out a lot, maybe she’s right. Maybe you’re delusional. The real question is who else in your ecosystem does believe? And more importantly,
forget about everybody else. This is really the crooks
of the whole damn thing. Do you believe? Right, because I think one of the weird things that has happened in my life that I think has created the scenarios of my existence is I have an incredible ability. I’ve had my whole life to literally tune out every other voice except my own, and I think that it’s
equally a vulnerability. I have no mentors for that reason. I love my parents. I would give them the mentor mantle, but I really don’t. I literally just listen to my own voice, and so if you’re lucky as I am, and I know millions of people are I’m sure to be able to tune out everybody, if you believe you’re an entrepreneur then you’re set. I would argue the fact
that you’re even asking me this question means
that you’ve put weight into your mom’s opinion, which I think needs to be dissected by you to begin with, because I put zero weight into anybody’s opinion about myself because I know exactly who I am.

“The ones that always sound like “they’re whining and pessimistic.” (laughs) – We fire them. (laughs) Because energy is something
I value tremendously and no question, if you
are dragging down the team, that is a heavily– Not having the smarts to do the work is actually viewed as a better option that being Eeyore and woe is me. Look, we are 550 deep now, I’m positive, as people are
watching this from VaynerMedia, saying yeah but, “Ricky is really Eeyore.” You say you’d fire him, why has Ricky been moping for six months? I’m sure there’s a couple
people sneaking through with woe is me but the truth is I heard a story this weekend from my mom, we had an employee that was friends with– My mom’s friends with his mom and she told me a story that the doorman, and the doormen say that they know who the
VaynerMedia employees are versus not just by the pep in their step when they go into the building and they’re happy and always smiling. I think we have a pretty
good atmosphere here and so I’m… I’m very, very, very affected by the atmosphere and the energy of my own company and since I’m the CEO I try to create an
environment that allows me to most do my thing. And I think companies
are disproportionally affected by the top five
to ten people in a company. It’s stunning, if you even look at the
Apples and Nintendos and Budweisers, I mean it’s incredible how a small group of people
really dictate the outcome. And of course everybody’s an impact but for me, if I’m not in a good mood because somebody’s moping, well then I (laughs), that’s a problem. There’s a negative ROI there. You know, the truth is, we try to understand
what makes them unhappy. Now, again, moping is different than being and introvert or quiet. You can be quiet and
focused on your thing. That’s very different
and I wanna make sure, make a big point here that I actually stunningly over-value quiet, focused. I always worry that people at VaynerMedia don’t realize if they’re
an introvert or quiet or focused or headphones on, never really interacting. We have such a culture
of intermingling that, I would even argue that I value them, not more, that’s not fair. I just value them for what they are. I don’t try to change
people for what they are. And you could bring enormous
value to this company by never saying a word or you can yell, like Gabe, 24/7 and bring value. All of it in between
really matters for me. And so, let’s make sure that
as you’re watching this, if your auditing your 5,
10, 15, 500 person company that you’re not digging
through and misjudging moping and just quiet. Or quiet and focused. Or introverted. Those are tremendously valuable things. That’s how they concentrate
and get their job done. Moping is Debbie Downner. I think it’s more Debbie, whaa, you know like Debbie
Downer like this sucks. Try to walk around here for
more than 20 days in a row saying this company sucks. Try. That’s not gonna fly. Being focused, maybe not
being the most social flower and going to every happy hour
and high fiving everybody when you walk through here, that’s more than fine. That should be acceptable. That is acceptable at the highest levels. But saying this sucks. The client sucks. This work sucks. This sucks, this sucks. Just doesn’t work, it’s
too much of a downer. So, how do we deal with it? We try to cut it out. It’s cancer. Straight up cancer.

“Which of your views do
you think has changed “the most in the past five years and why?” – Oh, we’re coming out strong. Which of my views has changed the most in the last five years and why? I yell at everybody to
not draw lines in the sand but the four, five things
I actually care about are pretty hardcore lines in the sand. You know, I’ll talk about
some things that have changed. I think that I’m a better communicator as the CEO for VaynerMedia than I was with Wine Library. I think that I hate confrontation
and negativity so much that I lollygagged, and
it wasn’t easy for me to give critical feedback. I mean, even people in this room have gotten critical feedback, and have fundamentally benefitted from it, and it’s not something that I’m sure that I could’ve delivered
as a younger CEO, which is, I didn’t like it. I literally kind of took the role of like, well, if they’re not
winning in this environment, then eventually I’ll
just, they’ll get fired. If they can’t figure it out,
it’s so good, they’ll get fired and I wasn’t providing that value, so I think micromanaging along the way instead of letting complete capitalism and complete openness
kind of rule the day, is something that I’ve changed. You know, I don’t have that many, you know what’s funny about
that question, Brandon, is I’m over-the-top
passionate lines in the sand as equal as I am to being
willing to change them. I always like to say,
I’m a mobile, mobable? No, no, no. What’s that? Moldable, thank you. Modable dictator, movable,
too, and moldable. Make me! Moldable dictator, because I think that the thing the team will about
is, if you can debate it out, and if it makes sense to
me, I’m willing to try, I’m willing to test. So I don’t get too passionate about it. I’m trying to think. Kids, family balance, work life balance, profit topline revenue. I feel myself changing
on YouTube a little bit, in the current moment, like, you know, Jeff Nicholson on the paid team
is really selling me hard on preroll YouTube and it’s value prop and so that’s a rabbit
hole I’m intrigued by. Growth hacking, I think I was cynical to the term, I didn’t love the term, and so I would kind of like zing it, because I thought it was, I thought, like, Ryan
and other people in it, I thought were really great players, but I thought the term
was getting huckstery, but I very much value, kind of, you know, understanding, you know, result driven marketing, so maybe that. – [Steve] Are you any
risk-adverse in your investments? – Risk-adverse in my investments. No, but I definitely think
that I struggled a little bit to calibrate the 25 million
dollars in Vayner/RSE versus Angel 25 and 50 k for
the first three to four months, but I haven’t changed
my point of view there, it’s still jockey and. There is something I’ve
really changed my mind on, and I’ve brought it up recently. Dammit, I’m so pissed, I’m
good at this top of mind stuff. I’ll keep going with the show, and see if I can dig it up, or we’ll come back to
it in another episode. I’m very into changing my mind. I’ll give you a preview
to changing my mind. I will bash Facebook advertising in three to four years. Bash it. We’ll say that it’s overpriced
and doesn’t deliver, because that’s what always happens, the same way I bash banner pre-roll, and the same way I bash SEM to not being as good
as people think it is, those are my calling cards,
along with e-mail marketing. I’m definitely way more
down on Twitter today than I was three years ago, so, I don’t know if it’s like,
you know, it’s not like a religion change, but
the tactics I believe in constantly change, it’s my kind of, write similar books over and over. Sid, you’re smiling. Something happening on Periscope? – [Sid] They’re like,
‘we wanna ask questions.’ – They wanna ask questions. Periscope, why don’t you
calm your goddamn role for a few seconds and let me do the show. And so, my tactics change a lot, but like, you know, the core things, I believe in being good
to people bring value, things like that means you’re
having shifted that’s so much.

“with negative reviews since the update. “What are your thoughts on the move?” – Reuben, I think that if you look at all the moves in the last
five years by Facebook specifically, but Instagram, Twitter, any platform that is extremely popular that then has an aggressive move that feels more selly, and I assume we’re talking about discovery above and kind of the first main screen. I don’t think people realize that people are always going to complain. Anytime that there’s change
that is in the benefit of the business, right, it’s very clear to people at this point that that screen that
you’re seeing Discover. You didn’t want it there. They’re forcing me on Discover. These are exactly the things that we saw with Facebook when they did every update. I mean the news feed was one of the first groups to get a million or ten million I don’t remember the number at the time, but when Facebook switched from you go to, you saw everything, and
you’d go to people’s walls and all those things. I mean, this is constant. I think it’s a tremendous
move by Snapchat, the Discovery consumption
has exploded since the move. Have you used more
Discover since the move? – Yeah, yeah. – [Gary] Staphon? – [Gary] Sid, the intern? My data shows that 100% of people. You know, it’s just, it’s so interesting. It’s a tremendous move by Snapchat. It’s making it more native, easier for them to go into that channel that is the channel that
they are going to monetize. I think it’s a brilliant move. I think you’ve gotta take some of the heat early on. I think every one of those people that have complained have used Snapchat quite a bit, except
for three rogue hippies and that’s fine ’cause Snapchat and Facebook and every
business doesn’t give a crap about that extremism of anti-business, because the numbers don’t
play themselves out, and I think that I think that they did not go too far, and I think that they’ve
done it just right. I think they’ve slowly introduced it first as a swipe over here. Now they’ve moved it up here. I think they, I am blown away, Evan, such a young CEO, and I’m just really, really impressed. I was wrong about story. Stories I didn’t think
was gonna be successful, because there was that swipe, and I thought that was a friction, and that worked. He’s really, really impressed me, and I’m very, very bullish on Snapchat, so much so that in my Vayner/RSE fund I spent the last batch of money, instead of an entire
nother year of investing in 20, 30 more companies. I went all in, all Wuzzles in on Snapchat and wrote a huge check, biggest check of my career at a 16 billion dollar evaluation. I’m a very, very big fan of Snapchat. They’ve blown me away. I wish I was on board way, way earlier. I’ve been writing about
them for a long time, and talking about them for a long time. I think that, not that prediction, but that bandwagon is
playing out to be true, and so I don’t think they went too far. I actually think they played
it absolutely perfect, and that’s not putting on my investor hat, because one thing a lot
of people don’t know is I’d much rather be historically correct than make a couple of bucks. I don’t wanna look back at
this and be like, I was wrong. – [Voiceover] Kat asks,
“How do you continue

Gary, which do you care about more? Interacting with people who
are your fans, who love you, or interacting with
people who don’t like you, who are haters? Where do you spend most of your time?” – Ah, Jay this is such, man, Jay is such a smart guy. Actually, you know what? Jay, you may take this is an insult. Jay’s a nicer guy than he is smart. Just a good dude. Jay, I think that there’s some interesting dynamics to this question. I would tell you, me, 2006 until 2013, I would have answered, the haters. You know me, I love the climb. I love the challenge of converting. I also very much believe I’m a good dude. So many people didn’t think
I was on their first impact because they thought I had too much ego. Or I cursed. Those would be the two things
that most turned people off when they’re first interacting with me. Many of you felt that about me. As matter fact, leave that in the comments if you were one of them. As somebody who, the cursing
really was standoffish or this guy thinks he’s
the greatest of all time. It’s been interesting if you watch people that are commenting over
the last couple of episodes, ‘specially in this golden era,
you’ll see a lot of people talking about how humble you are and I laugh because I know
so many people would see that and be like, pfft what? You start getting to see the
layers as they go over time and that’s why I always say I’m gonna win in the course of a marathon. I really, really was all about the haters. All the negative reviews on this, I went, the first hundred bad and replied to and engaged with. And then something switched. And then I said, you know
what, I’m disproportionately spending my time on the converted, versus all these wonderful people, that are giving me these nice accolades and comments and so many of you know, especially in Facebook because everybody that’s been
sharing these episodes and then commenting, I
been jumping in randomly and saying thank you
because I’m so thankful. Somebody said to share this, by the way that’s a subtle cue
to have every single person who’s watching this right
now, share it on Facebook. Everybody that’s sharing it
and getting their friends to see this and bringing me new audience, that’s incredible, versus somebody saying, you’re a douche bag. I need to reward that
behavior because they get happy with the engagement too, so I think I’m in a much better balance. I would even say that I’m
probably 80% the positive, 20% the negative, but
I’m still very committed. It’s just maybe because,
knock on wood, the new show is a format that is leading
to more people liking me. The keynotes are so brash. The one-off rants are so brash that if that’s the first impact, but the show has a different
tone to it that allows more, I’m far more consumable if the
first thing that you ever saw was this show versus, especially depending
on the first question, I still got that in me. So I would say both. I think both matter tremendously. I’m so disappointed in my
contemporaries and friends who disregard and just label
anybody that just disagrees with them a hater. I actually fully understand
why people disagree with me. I have very narrow views,
as a matter of fact, that are completely predicated on where I think the market’s going which are not very
clear to everybody else. I’ve got nothing but confidence. Confidence for days, with like four Z’s. I’ve got confidence for days. I communicate in a certain style. It’s very East Coast. It’s Jersey in the house. I understand. I hate Patriot fans,
fucking hate you guys. You know, I get that. That’s not feels nice if
you like watching this you’re a Patriot fan, like
oh, wait Gary, hits me weird. I got my dynamics. But what it all really comes
down to is everybody matters, and I have enormous empathy
to why people disagree or might be put off by me
in the beginning and I think that they absolutely deserve
my attention just as much as somebody who says I’m
the greatest of all time. I like all people whether
they agree with me or not. Whether they think I’m a dick or not. It’s just all very understandable for me and I also feel extremely at peace to where this all vets
out in our relationship. That’s it, cool.

– What has been the
largest or biggest failure you’ve had either in
your business or in life, that’s propelled you forward
towards the most success? Also, I hope to see you next week as I film the #GaryVeeShow with you. Thanks. – That’s a great job, Aaron. Sorry you lost. Great question, love the video. You know I think, you
know, I’ve been lucky. I think the one failure I’ve had was that 2009 to 2011 window
where I was trying to be Gary Vee, ’cause of Crush It!. I was running Wine Library. We started VaynerMedia. Misha was just born. I was trying to do Obsessed TV. I was trying to do the wine
social network, Cork’d. I was trying to do the
social network for developers and designers called Forrst. And I was very stretched thin. I was investing. And so, I learned that I
was trying to definitely put my ass on too many toilets. That’s a Russian translation
for all you Ruskies out there, you know exactly what I’m talking about. And so, I wasn’t able
to balance all of that. And even now, I really, I
feel like I’m starting to take on a lot of stuff. The difference is, I did
a better job up front. There was more selective of the people that I’ve partnered with
on Resy and Faithbox and BRaVe ventures. And this has nothing
to do with the Obsessed or Forrst or Cork’d team. I picked partners that I needed to provide too many things to, besides
capital, and made those promises so, it’s my failure, not theirs. This time around I found
people who had skills that were more similar to mine. I also have dramatically
more infrastructure with VaynerMedia and my team. And so, you know, DRock’s
helped out with Faithbox, you know, and so, you know
Zak has helped out with BRaVe. You know, everybody’s helped
out a little bit here with Resy you know, so there’s,
that’s really it my man. I’ve been very, very, very lucky. I think for the most
part, I think in only, you know, this is the reason
I struggled with yesterday’s question with what I
don’t like about myself. I think there’s something
interesting in the way that I process, that I’m really
getting deeper into myself through this show, through your comments. Just really, really gathering
a lot of pieces right now. And what I’ve realized is wow,
I am really a net net guy. I mean, if you think about all the things that are not working
in my world right now, there’s a ton, there’s a ton
of shit not working out there. Different initiatives,
different departments, a ton. But I can’t help but not
recognize that we’re gonna grow, you know, outrageously this year and be massively successful. And so, there’s probably
tons of flaws with me from yesterday’s question. I’m just not capable of seeing them because in a net net
game, I’m a decent dude. And so, one thing that I
would implore and one thing I would challenge and one thing I would actually want so many of you to shift into is why are you allowing
yourself to look at every small loss along the way? Instead of taking a step back and looking at, minimally, a year. You know, preferably a five year window and say, have you won in that environment? And so, who cares if you, you know how many
investments I’ve lost on? You know, like, in the last two years, you know how many
employees didn’t work out? You know how many flights I took that took up a lot of time
that materialized into nothing? You know how many negative
comments I’ve gotten about this show? You’re allowing yourself, and
this is based on your DNA, so listen, if you need
to go speak to somebody and lay on a couch. If you need to write and express yourself. Find your way to level up your ability to look at things at a net
score versus the minutia from a day to day, week
to week, month to month loss game and I promise you, you will have a happier and more
successful career slash life. – [India] Jay asks, “If you’re
in a wholesale business,

“of transitioning to a new job. “I was wondering what your advice would be “for my last two weeks?” – Nathan, I’m gonna give
you some really good advice that I think a lot of
people here need to hear as you transition from job to job. I actually think the last
two weeks of your job are one of the most interesting times you can have in your career. It’s something that I’ve
spent a lot of time on, paying attention to the behavior
of people that have spent last two weeks at Wine
Library or VaynerMedia. I think that your actions
in those two weeks will really be much more impactful on your future career
than you may realize. I think the grace and being
the bigger man or woman, and humility, and all the
things that come along with it, are all those great traits
that I like to talk about pretty often, are so imperative
in those last two weeks, because everybody’s watching. Your coworkers are watching, and definitely your employer is watching. It’s stunning to me how many people have come back around at a
year later at VaynerMedia, asking me for help, asking for a job back, when they were actually
terrible, or not terrible, that’s not fair ’cause
I’m very competitive. You know, they were, oh I’m
going to this great gig, and like trying to impact other people to make them realize how they’re going to this amazing place, and it’s funny how the grass is not as green once you land on your new location, and then when you’re lucky enough to work for somebody who’s a good
guy and that has some power and then you go ask for
something, all you had to do was be the bigger woman
for those two weeks and I would go out of my way to help you. I think way too many people
burn bridges on the way out, bridges that they need,
because the shortsighted nature of our society, much of the
themes of the 200 episodes, or 150 episodes, or 120 episodes. Lou, how are you my man? Come give this man a little bit of daps on the #AskGaryVee show,
I know he watches it. How are you? Thanks for having me on. – I’ve been jabbin’ away on social media saying local TV will never be the same. – I love it, I’m excited. Let me finish this show,
I’ll be with you in a second. I think burning those
bridges is a devastating play that way too many people feel, out of excitement sometimes, or out of, you know, cynicism and
all the negative things that then kinda makes
me feel that it’s fair that they’re unable to
mend those relationships and get value out of
those past relationships. To me, there’s no value in anything other than being over the top awesome, giving love to everybody,
making amends with people maybe that you didn’t work
well with, the last two weeks. I think you treat it like the last month of high school, senior year, right? You just make it all good.