10:05

– [Voiceover] Daniel asks, “How do you think “overly-edited photos and text overlays “affect the authenticity of Instagram posts?” – Daniel, thank you so much for a wonderful question. Just off the back of authenticity, so you must have been thrilled. I think it’s what you’re trying to accomplish. I think that if you’re a […]

– [Voiceover] Daniel
asks, “How do you think “overly-edited photos and text overlays “affect the authenticity
of Instagram posts?” – Daniel, thank you so much
for a wonderful question. Just off the back of authenticity, so you must have been thrilled. I think it’s what you’re
trying to accomplish. I think that if you’re a photographer trying to catch the wild,
like, you can’t edit and put words over it,
but if you roll like me where a lot of things, like
you wanna inspire people to think differently or
make them feel something, it’s really powerful
to put a quote of yours on top of a photo. I really do think it’s the strategy, the will, the interest
of the content producer to really make this judgment call. What I like most of
all about this question is how Instagram really works. The ability to unfollow
somebody on Instagram is so easy, and this is
a subtle product thing that I don’t think people
spend enough time on. People’s ability to unfollow somebody feels so native as you’re
scrolling that, you know, at the end of the day,
content’s gonna find its audience if it’s
good, and whether that’s highly edited or super raw, or black and white, or booty shots, or inspirational quotes,
or whatever it is, it’s going to find its audience, and so I think it’s something that people should not overthink in either direction, right? It’s not a tactic that
automatically makes it pop, and it’s definitely not a
tactic that’s gonna cripple you, it just needs to be right. I actually think you’ve said it best, which is, authenticity has
nothing to do with the actions. It has to do with the seed
of where this comes from. If you authentically, like
me, want to put things like kill it or crush a face today, or whatever you wanna
say on top of a picture, that’s what’s coming from
me, that’s why I think my audience finds it attractive, in the same way that, if all of a sudden on my Instagram feed
I’m taking sunset shots of New York City, people
are gonna be like, “That’s not.” that’s not, that’s just not who I am, right? And that’s why I yell at DRock always trying to edit and shit, and that’s it, right? That’s it so, I think your
question’s got the answer in it, which is the word authenticity. If it comes from the heart to have quotes on top
of it and edit it, cool. If it doesn’t, cool. Cool?

9:45

“How do you balance speed/hustle and patience?” Johannes is such a great name. I really like that one. It’s like Johanne and Pocahontas. (laughing offscreen) No, seriously. (multiple people speaking at once offscreen) You weren’t thinking that? That’s what I was thinking. I was thinking that Johan Santana was dating Pocahontas and they were known […]

“How do you balance
speed/hustle and patience?” Johannes is such a great name. I really like that one. It’s like Johanne and Pocahontas. (laughing offscreen) No, seriously. (multiple people speaking
at once offscreen) You weren’t thinking that? That’s what I was thinking. I was thinking that Johan Santana was dating Pocahontas and they were known as a couple as Johanntes. (person speaking indistinctly offscreen) Johan said there’s a real baseball player, leftie, and Pocahontas
is obviously Pocahontas. Okay, let’s go to it. (laughing offscreen) Obviously, this is. (laughing) I got it, Johannes. Right? – [Voiceover] (mumbles) (laughing) This is the best question
because the truth is I really believe that I’m a bridge, right? I’m pulling equally, very aggressively from both sides. That I’m a human contradiction. That if you really watch this show and it throws people off, as they get deeper into my content, that oftentimes I’m saying things that contradict themselves
’cause the truth is they both live in real
life at the same time and it’s about finding
that cadence and balance to guide through. I am massively, at a
global level, patient. But on a practical level,
and an execution level, I’m very fast, right? So it’s really, it really is
religion and church, right? Like at the highest,
like at the theoretical, at the, at the grey levels
of patient, long game, I’m aware that as long as I’m alive, I’m playing the businessman game and it doesn’t end tomorrow and if it ends tomorrow, I don’t know the outcome
anyway ’cause I’m dead. Right? And so, but in real life, I understand it’s a race and speed is a variable for
success to me in a big way. Hustle, and so like they’re, patience and speed are very much rubbing against each other but it’s like the diamond
comes from that, right? And so that’s the thing
that I think about. I find it very easy to do both. You have to understand, there’s people that are both in practical
and philosophical terms, and they have different outcomes. AKA there’s people that philosophically are not patient. They’re impatient. And they’re fast. And they look like the bad
version of what I am, right? They’re like hustlers and they’re like doing everything for themselves and they’re not patient. They don’t care about the long game and they’re just gonna take and they’re just gonna
take and take and take and gonna take fast and they’re gonna gather and I think that society,
the game rewards them and there’s a lot of
millionaires and billionaires that didn’t do it the right way and that’s what I think they look like. Then there’s a lot of people that are massively patient and slow, and those are the
enormous amount of people that, you know, in a business context, not in life, they’re probably some of the loveliest human beings that have ever been made because they’re slow and they’re patient and everything’s just lovely and let’s just like sit on the porch and, you know, drink peach tea for the rest of our
lives and like go slow. Just go real slow. Like let’s sit and look at stuff. Like let’s sit on the porch and look. Like look at stuff. Like a car just drove by. Great. Like I mean that, you know, is not interesting to me, either, and so that exists. So I actually think
what I do exists a lot. I think it’s the likable,
you know, aggressive person. And that’s, you know, they’re out there and there’s a lot of winners
that are good people. I really think that. If you look at my analogies, the speed part is really valuable, right? Like if you’re speedy and
selfish and impatient, you know, I think the other thing about the lack of patience and fast, you don’t have to be a bad person. I think it leads to mistakes. Right? That’s another variable layer here. You know, it’s funny that my brain went that first narrative. Here’s a second narrative. You’re going fast, you’re not patient, so you rush the outcome and you leave money on the table. You sold a company too soon. You weren’t as profitable as you could’ve been
because you missed things ’cause you didn’t see it
’cause you weren’t tactful. And so, you know, I think
it has essence of strategy. You know, somebody once said to me about Vayner, “Gary, you guys are so interesting.” He was trying to zing me a little bit, that we weren’t strategic enough. He said, “You’re so interesting,” but he’s like, “When
you get into the house, “I feel like a lot of times you guys “just run through the glass window “instead of opening the door.” It was a funny analogy. And then I looked at him and said, “Yeah, but we’re gonna own all the homes.” (laughing offscreen) I guess that’s a good way to end it. – [India] That’s good.

14:13

I’m from Warsaw, Poland. – I love it. Julian, are you the one who I was tweeting with today? – Yes, sir. – And so, you didn’t even know it was going on today? – No. – [Gary] And then we tweeted. – Yeah. – And then you showed up. – Yeah. – Big ups […]

I’m from Warsaw, Poland. – I love it. Julian, are you the one who
I was tweeting with today? – Yes, sir. – And so, you didn’t even
know it was going on today? – No.
– [Gary] And then we tweeted. – Yeah. – And then you showed up. – Yeah. – Big ups to Poland, baby, yeah! (audience cheering) – That’s the ROI of twitter, fuck-faces! (audience laughs)
– [Julian] (mumbling) – All right, sorry, hold
on, I can’t hear shit. Go ahead, start over, brother. – I mean, I was already in New York. – I know you didn’t fly from
Poland 20 minutes ago, dick. (audience laughing) – This guy, this guy. I get it, I get it. – [Julian] (mumbling) – Start over, start over! – I have a health care company that’s focused on limiting
obesity in America and I’m meeting with all
these VC’s and they look at me and I look like I’m 12 years old and they’re like, you know,
“What the fuck do you know?” – [Gary] Yep. – so, I explained the problem they’re like, oh, yeah,
that’s a really good idea like we all really like that,
but leave it to the grown ups and I was going, you know, fuck you and your receding hairline. – [Gary] Dude, I’m losing
hairs watch yourself. Go ahead. – So, how do I get like
some respect from them and actually make and see eye to eye you know, a little kid whose
tackling a big problem. – [Gary] You know look, I think I think the truth is
that’s interesting to me because I would tell you like,
I have no empathy for you because, this is the
greatest era of all time of kids getting disproportional respect because we’ve seen technology grow and you know, I was looking
at the 30 and 40 year olds in this audiance who were like that we wish we had any we wish we were allowed to do anything but, go grab the coffee 20 years ago so, I promise you like, you’re
getting way more respect the fact that a VC is willing to see you is like, way advanced
compared to where it was five or 10 or 15 years ago? I would say this though and look you need to raise money, right? Like you’re not going to see them to go see their receding hairline, you’re going cause you want their money. – [Julian] Yes, exactly. – I wanna align you on
some respect factor you’re going to ask somebody
for their money, right? so, you know, we’re in a place now where money is flowing so freely but, I would also keep
that chip on your shoulder because that’s great. I love that. The best thing to do and I’ve said this before on this show is sell to people that are willing to buy. To me this second I feel any indication that somebody is not interested you look, I’ll give you a good example if I went on a VC pitch and it
was allocated for 45 minutes. And if you sniffed out that just like they’re out, they’re like out. I would cut the meeting short I want that 30 minutes back, right? So, I’ll tell you that sell
to people that are interested versus trying to get
somebody and sell it to them. I’m never selling to anybody but the market that attract,
I’m selling to you guys you’re attracted to this
content. I appreciate that. I’m not trying to convince anybody else. This is right. I’m just
gonna go out and prove it. You know, so I would first
it sounds like you need money I’ve never gone out and raised money I just do shit, make
money, and then go back and tell you I told you
so, right? That you know and so, for me it’s sounds
like you need dollars but, money is easy. Go find the people that wanna find their “Polish Mark Zuckerberg” take their money and go and execute – [Julian] The thing is I’ve
been here for seven days in New York so I’ve of kind
of had an up hill battle but I know what you mean. – [Gary] Yeah, get it, but like I’m not sure what that even meant meaning like
– [Julian] Meaning like – going into a bar where
they only let me in because I am 20.
– [Gary] Right. – I already get like shut down–
– [Gary] Right. – [Julian] where all the
networking events are so, I’ve actually
been standing outside of like Wall Street firms and like hitting up the people. – [Gary] I think your
strategy was fucked up then. – Probably like
– [Julian] Why? Well, I mean, there’s
two ways to look at it. I mean, your strategy is not fucked up if you hustle to get in the
New York, right from Poland to try to raise money then that’s awsome,
but, then I wouldn’t be whoa is me about that like, dude I fucking work 19 hours a day like, I’ve, everybody’s got struggles. – [Julian] I work 20. – What’s that?
– [Julian] I work 20. – [Gary] Cool, I work 21. (audience laughing) So, here’s what I think I think that you clearly
got hustle, right? – [Julian] Right. – And like, I guess, let’s go backwards well let’s make it a
ask the Polish kid show. – [Julian] Okay. Bring it. – What do you need right now? Money?
– [Julian] Yes. – Cool, money is I think
money is shockingly easy. So, what I would tell
you is I would’ve before I came to New
York and knock on doors I would’ve use the
internet, new thing, and I would’ve e-mailed
people, hit them up on Twitter done different things to try to have much warmer meetings in place. How many meetings did you have
in place when you got here? – [Julian] I’ve had about seven. – So that’s good.
So how did those go? – They went well, but looked at me like I was 20 years old and said this is a way
too complex problem to solve for such a young kid we’ll give the money
to someone who’s older who has more experience.
– [Gary] I disagree. I think that’s what you
want to think they thought. – [Julian] Well, I mean
you told me and I said you know, I’m not gonna say it. – [Gary] By the way, I bet
you that they said that you because a lot of people are
bad at giving critical advice they probably just use that as an excuse. Because, I promise you, I know
every fucking VC in the game and they’re pumped to
give a 20 year old money. They just wanna give it to
something that they believe in. – [Julian] Okay, cool. – [Gary] Cool man, good luck. – [Julian] Thanks. (audiance clapping)

5:01

“when dealing with a pissed-off customer?” – (sighs) Charlie, I’ve got a really interesting answer to my thought process on pissed-off customers. First and foremost I want to know if they’re right. So I use myself as the judge of that. And I mean that, I mean I judge how right they are. if they […]

“when dealing with a pissed-off customer?” – (sighs) Charlie, I’ve got
a really interesting answer to my thought process
on pissed-off customers. First and foremost I want
to know if they’re right. So I use myself as the judge of that. And I mean that, I mean I
judge how right they are. if they are 100% right in my opinion, I’m coming in with nothing but empathy, how do I fix it? Lifetime value, whatever it
costs me upfront right now, it doesn’t matter, because they’re right and in the capitalism meritocracy, fairness of the world, I need to make good on the mistake that Wine Library or VaynerMedia, I made, and that’s that. Now if I think they’re wrong, which happens plenty of times as well, maybe 50-50 of the time,
I come with offense, you know, I come to explain to them that I get it, and I have
empathy and I’m sorry, but. Huge capital B-U-T,
but, you’re a douchebag, and let me explain,
blah, blah, blah, blah. And so that is really the way it is. So first and foremost
I assess the situation. I never try to put my
best interests in mind, and so if I think they’re right, Lauren don’t be scared, and
if I don’t think they’re, and if I think that they’re
right, then I’m gonna just do what I said in part one, but if I think they’re wrong, I’m gonna play it a different way. (laughs)

7:01

“you wanted to sell your services “to the big Fortune 500 companies “versus consumers first, and then come up with VaynerMedia? “In other words, did you choose who you wanted “to sell to first to maximize your profits, “and then come up with the business model?” – Sally, this is an interesting question. I’m a […]

“you wanted to sell your services “to the big Fortune 500 companies “versus consumers first, and
then come up with VaynerMedia? “In other words, did you
choose who you wanted “to sell to first to
maximize your profits, “and then come up with
the business model?” – Sally, this is an interesting question. I’m a very big fan of counter-punching; and a lot of people don’t do that. A lot of people lay out business-plans, they know what they wanna
do, they go and do it. And they go raise money,
or they go and execute it; and that’s how they roll. In lieu of the tremendous
fight this weekend, which it was boring to the masses; but it was a tremendous fight for me. Because 13 seconds in, I looked at AJ and said, “This fight’s over.”
’cause I couldn’t believe how much faster Floyd was than Pacquiao. Watching them separately,
I thought it’d be closer. I knew a second that he
was that much faster, that the fight was over because I know what kind of defensive fighter Floyd is. And I’m sure everybody
gets bored and falls asleep rounds seven through 12, but I’m just completely,
like, infatuated with boxing. And understood the chess-moves
that he was playing out in the ring, and enjoyed that. Even though I know it’s not commercially raw-raw, high-energy. I view myself very
similar as a businessman. I react, it’s funny I feel
like I’m on full-offense. I feel like I’m 48-and-oh
because I play great defense based on reacting. I can react to the market and adjust. The market started coming to me because I was writing Crush It!, putting out videos around business, and amassing a large
social media following. And big-brands reached out to me and said, “Hey, you’ve got all these people.” You know, “Hey, we’re
a Fortune 500 company. “We have 50 followers on Twitter. “You have 400,000 followers! “We’ve never heard of you. “Come and teach us, come explain.” Plus, moments in time. AJ was graduating from BU. It was time to do a business together. We were thinkin’ about fantasy sports, we were thinkin’ about other things. And, so, between timing
and being reactionary to the demand cycle,
like, we’re responding to the demand that was in place. I was already playing in the space. It wasn’t like I just made something up, or there was demand for
me out of left-field that made no sense. My actions were setting
up my counter-punch. My actions were setting
up my counter-punch. I think it’s a very
strong model for business.

9:59

“What’s the biggest way, right now, “you are hypocritical of your won advice?” – (sighs) Edward, this is a really, really, really, good question. Edward, this may be my favorite question. You know what, Edward, you’ve also solved something else for me, that is tremendous. Which is people always ask me, you know this Steve. […]

“What’s the biggest way, right now, “you are hypocritical of
your won advice?” – (sighs) Edward, this
is a really, really, really, good question. Edward, this may be my favorite question. You know what, Edward, you’ve also solved something else for me, that is tremendous. Which is people always ask
me, you know this Steve. “What’s the one question
nobody ever asks you, that should ask you?”
(laughs) I think this is really it. Edward, it’s a moving target. Right now, luckily, ’cause
I’ve built out infrastructure a lot less, right, I’m
putting out content. I’m doing a consistent show. Andy K. doing a ton of
Facebook dark posts. We’re doing a ton of
influencer stuff on Instagram. I would say maybe a little bit, we need a little bit
more umph on Pinterest but even that we’re doing, huh. I would say this, in the historical track
of me giving advice since 2009 in business, this is easily the least hypocritical, least not following my advice that I’ve ever been in because I finally hit
scale where I can afford this incredibly good-looking team. Show Steve for the good-looking stuff. – Hello there. – And so (laughs). And so… What do you guys think, actually? This could be a lot of fun. I’m trying to think of like
what we’re not crushing on that we believe in so much. We’re really doing well right now. – I think, I don’t know. – [Gary] Go ahead, it’s okay
you won’t hurt my feelings. – Okay, I think that we could probably be jabbing on Wine Library better. I think that a lot of– – No, I don’t well, by the way, come back to me. Wine Library is like out of the, I think for sure. Wine Library’s got Instagram
that it could be doing better. Pinterest. Wine Library’s got its
own spiel of re-orging in a way that I think can do better work. Wine Library for sure. I’m talking about our world where I have a little bit more control because I’m day-to-day Wine Library. What do you think is the, India? Anything? – [Voiceover] Hmm. – I think SlideShare. – [Voiceover] Yeah. – I’m a big, right, SlideShare. I think we’ve really, that’s me and you. – [India] Yeah. – And maybe I could be
giving a little bit more time and access to India and Steve
for the follow up content. I’m just like grinding so hard. I mean like… There’s just like not a minute in the day. I’m mean like, we’re literally
like talking on Sunday nights – [India] Yeah. – It’s pretty intense. 6pm this last Sunday. So, I don’t know. I don’t know, I’m feeling
really great right now about it. As good as I’ve ever felt. Wine Library as a whole
could be doing better. Definitely on Instagram. There’s so much upside
for wine businesses there. I could be giving a little bit more access to following up on content. I don’t know. – [Steve] Could be making more episodes of
The #AskGaryVee Show. – More episodes. We’re grinding pretty good right now. But I want that question
asked once a quarter

17:33

a wrap-up session, but we’re gonna make a unique thing. Why this book, and more importantly, you have such a mix of people that listen and watch my show, right? You’ve got a ton of people in startup, entrepreneurial culture, you know, obviously cause of the agency, there’s a plenty amount of executives in Fortune […]

a wrap-up session, but we’re
gonna make a unique thing. Why this book, and more importantly, you have such a mix of people that listen and watch my show, right? You’ve got a ton of people in startup, entrepreneurial culture,
you know, obviously cause of the agency,
there’s a plenty amount of executives in Fortune
500s, bloggers, media types. When you look at this book, and you guys put your
self-awareness against this book, who benefits the most? Of course, that’s like wanting
the book to be successful. We want everybody, and I’d
like, it would mean a lot to me to support these guys, I want you on it, but going down the pecking order, who do you think, or how
do the individual segments that could read this book, what
do you see them benefitting from what angles? – I mean, what we wanted to
do, we wanted to create an MBA in a book, because you
can start off in business, and you can get very good at one thing, and there’s something in your
head that’s saying to you, I wish I had the 360 mindset, you know, that’s sort of what an MBA,
I’ve got one, what it gives you. It sort of gives you the CEO’s mindset, you sort of see all
the different functions working together, and we looked around, and that book didn’t exist. It’s for people who didn’t have an MBA who just wanted one but
didn’t wanna give up two years of their life to go get one. – Or the gadrillion dollars, or the debt. – Right, the flexibility, everything. – Well, I mean, anybody
who’s managing anyone, a small team of five
people or a team of 500, can use the tools that are in here to build a team.
– So, management. – No, no, no, that’s one level. – I know, but that, but
it’s an interesting insight that that’s where you went
first, but I’m intrigued by it. – Well, I– – He always goes there first (laughs)
because he– – I believe in it so
much, so I’m into it too. – But I’m talking about
managing small groups as well. – I get it. – And what we wanted to
do is create an atmosphere in a company that’s got some
of the buzz you’ve got here, across every company. So, building a wow team,
and having employees know how to play on a wow team is
a critical part of this story. – One last thing is that there’s
a whole section of the book on your career, and it’s about, you know, what should I do with my life, how do I get out of a career stall, and how do you become an entrepreneur, what does it really take? There’s all, a lot of the book is about winning strategically,
smiting your competition, building a great team, but look frankly, people spend a lot of brain time thinking about their own careers and how they get to be where – Stuck. – Where they’re really
fulfilled and they’re doing what they wanna do, so the whole, there’s a chunk of the book about that. – Do you believe, on a real
quick question, do you believe, by the way, you guys
look great in this photo. Do you believe, how many photos, how long did this photo shoot take? – Long time for me, not for her.
– Longer than we’d have liked. – To get me on there to look
like that was real work. – I can imagine. (they laugh) Do you believe that a top 25, 50 business school MBA in April 2015, is as
valuable in the marketplace as it was, five, 10, and 25 years ago. – Go back to top 10. – Okay, top 10, yes. – Absolutely. – How about 11 to 25? – It starts to slide pretty quickly. At the top 10, the line is out the door with McKinsey, with
Booz, with everybody else lined up, waiting to get in. So at a top 10 school, you’re making a huge 300,000 dollar investment, but the return is pretty good. – It pays off. – It pays off. – What about, so many of those kids, cause now I’m spending a
lot of time with those kids. So many of those kids want to
become startup entrepreneurs. – Right. – Do you believe that the
ROI is equally as good at that 300,000 dollar investment if they wanna go down that path versus going to Bain and McKinsey, who start paying them
tremendously strong salaries and bonuses that can drive down that debt. – Depends on the quality of their idea. Let’s face it. – What’s your intuition tell you– – We are running all the time into people that wanna be, quote, entrepreneurs. It’s not a profession. It is the output of a great idea. – Yep. – It’s not like being
a lawyer or a doctor. What is your idea, what
is the value proposition, and can you win with it? – Yeah. – So, I always end the
show where I ask a question

6:35

Meerkat is nothing more than a cute animal, and Twitter isn’t even as dominant as it is in the US. Would you recommend that I still go there and wait?” – Max, I think that the question is very solid, but actually you should have been able to level up and figure it out for […]

Meerkat is nothing more
than a cute animal, and Twitter isn’t even as
dominant as it is in the US. Would you recommend that I still go there and wait?” – Max, I think that the question is very solid, but actually you should have been able to level up and figure it out for yourself. Here’s what I mean by that. It’s the same thesis that
I talk about in the US. Meerkat is just an animal in the US too and so is Periscope, and so is Snapchat 38 months ago. Yes, every country, like here’s an answer. Will every country like the
same social networking apps and they will hit scale? Absolutely not. It’s funny. Unfortunately, as India
was reading the question I know that Twitter never
popped to real scale at Germany, I was gonna say that. You said it in the question. Look, I think that it’s super important for you to understand what I
mean by sit there and hope. The upside of being an earlier
mover in a new platform that has the potential
to pop is so much greater than the downside of
going to a new platform and wasting your four, five or 10 weeks or 10 months, and it didn’t pop, and that’s why I’ll always do it. That’s about as basic as it gets. That was probably the
best way that I’ve ever articulated it. Thank you Max from Germany for putting me in a position to succeed right now, because that’s it. That’s just it. It’s just that simple. Especially when you’re
an entrepreneur and time is what you have, not money. You entrepreneurs in the
VaynerNation are pissing me off to such an extreme,
because you’re debating these things, and you cry that
you don’t have enough money to compete with the big guys, but then you cry about wasting your time. Oh, you mean the only God damn asset you have besides your raw talent to have any potential to win? Yeah, I think it’s a
good use of your time. – Hey Gary, it’s Brandon
from Human Cry from

9:08

“on subscription box services?” – Michelle, first and foremost, congratulations. That is an adorable picture. It’s really cute, and I fully expect you and that little one to send me a version of that picture 10 years from today since I put you on the show, and I’d like to see it. So I’m looking […]

“on subscription box services?” – Michelle, first and
foremost, congratulations. That is an adorable picture. It’s really cute, and I fully expect you and that little one to send
me a version of that picture 10 years from today since
I put you on the show, and I’d like to see it. So I’m looking forward to being surprised and trying to recall why it’s
happening 10 years from today. Big shout out to 2025. The answer to your question,
box services, look, I wrote one of the first
checks into Birchbox and was an angel investor in BarkBox. We’re incubating a business
here called Faithbox. I’m a very big fan of the
subscription box service. I think it’s the way people like to buy. We like to buy once and forget about it. I think they’re good
businesses because then, even if we get stuff we
don’t want, we don’t cancel right away. So you get an extra two
to five, seven months worth of business. That’s just the truth. And so I’m very bullish on them,
and I think that there’s innovation to be had. I think that the box was
kind of the innovation. All this is, is the month club, right? It’s just the basket of the month club. So I’ve been thinking
for a long time like, what else can I ship it in? Can it be like a balloon? Like, can it be like peanutballoon.com, where like a balloon lands
and there’s peanuts in it each month? I feel like the mechanism, the box itself has some innovation around it. I hope that idea spurred
a thought for somebody and they start a huge million-dollar
business because of it. I definitely think that
there’s a play there. As far as upping the hustle, I would say the birth of a new child is
one of the most remarkable, important moments of one’s life. And even though I’m 24/7, 365 hustle, much like I talk about,
getting plenty of sleep and vacations matter. It’s what you do when you’re awake. I wouldn’t overstress the
first one to 10 months, depending on your DNA. I would really focus on
laying the foundation of a healthy relationship
and lifestyle for your baby. You’ve got plenty of
time to pick it back up. Unless you’re a maniac like
me, then I would just say, just a little less sleep and
try to prioritize your health and vitamins and drink
water and stuff like that. Don’t eat weird food
that makes you throw up for seven hours the next morning. And that’s it. Question of the day.

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to give to clouds versus dirt? Is it based off your personality and strengths? Example, if you’re gifted to lead and set the vision, should you spend less time doing the work even though you also like it just as much?” – The clouds and dirt debate is a super tough one. Obviously for people […]

to give to clouds versus dirt? Is it based off your
personality and strengths? Example, if you’re gifted
to lead and set the vision, should you spend less time doing the work even though you also like it just as much?” – The clouds and dirt
debate is a super tough one. Obviously for people that follow me, DRock, that was really
just you, take the credit. DRock made an incredible film,
let’s actually link that up right here, or take over, I don’t know what you do these days. It’s just really my thesis
of how I build businesses, how I live life, right? Focus on the big big big
things, but don’t get scared to get your hands dirty,
’cause execution matters. Ideas are shit without the
execution, and vice versa. Don’t play in the middle,
that’s the real concern. And so I think you need a healthy balance. To me, I can give you a good answer here. This is one man’s humble opinion, I’m uncomfortable if you
go 70-30 in any direction. If you’re over-indexing
70 or 30 in any direction, that’s a problem to me. So stick to minimum 70-30 clouds and dirt. Yes, I do think you can map your DNA if you’re a big thinker, big time thinker, finding where I place 70 there, still have the humility
and the practicioner skills to bang out a 30% here. If you don’t think
you’re as big of an idea, you think you’re grinding and
your hustle is a big factor, or there’s an ebb and flow, like sometimes I’m in 70-30 mode, and then I’m in 30-70 mode because the 70 was right and now I have to execute. As a matter of fact, right
now, I feel with VaynerMedia, the last nine months I was 70 execution, but I’m feeling myself moving up to like 90 thinking, 10 execution,
because I need to re-chart the course of the company
because I’m seeing not vulnerabilities,
I’m seeing opportunity, and that puts me on the offense. So I don’t think there’s a
perfect breakdown of clouds and dirt, they just
always need to be in play, and really I don’t think of
them as a day to day basis, I think of them more
holistically as a true commitment both to strategy and
the dirt that you need under your fingernails in execution. Way too many primadonnas right now, I’m the thinker. Think this. – Hey Gary Vee.

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