#AskGaryVee Episode 192: What To Do If Someone Copies Your Business Idea, Dublin & The Startup Van

– It all depends on the person. I’m very good. Most of people don’t piss me
off enough but some people the second time you ask they’re mad. There’s a lot of my
contemporaries, some of these big names that we all know that
I know get super pissed, super pissed. – DRock’s been super patient. Crazy level of patience. There’s big
arguments going on outside.

your dad that you were moving
with your own thing, how did that conversation go? – This is a good question. The truth is this is
probably stunning information for everybody. We never really
fully had the talk. We kinda had to talk three
years later believe it or not. – Really? – Really, which is contradiction
to so many things that I’ve said to so many of you. Communicate this that
and the other thing. It was kind of a weird
way that we got into it. Uh oh. – [Policeman] Two minutes. – [All] Ok. – Two minutes we’re fine. – Why don’t we stop
it here and move it? Let’s move it. Let’s move it.
We’re fine. – Yeah. Cool. Cool. – No reason to fight. – No, were going ghetto. Yeah, I like ghetto. – So is it on to me now? What did you just ask there? – No, I’ll finish it. I’ll finish it.
– Yeah, yeah, yeah. – So that was interesting. We innuendoed to it. My dad knew what was
going on but I was straddling both things.
The book came out, Crush It!, there was
a lot going on. My dad wanted to get more
involved in the business and there’s no such thing as
two cooks in the kitchen. If I give one to his
advice, even this. Are you the two guys? – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – It’s not easy.
– [Mark and Graham] No. – You guys are different dudes. You got different perspectives. You can be the best of friends,
best intentions, love each other, everything. VaynerMedia, I’m the CEO. AJ is a COO. I am one, he is two. I was one running Wine Library
but it was causing friction between my dad and I thought it
was an opportunity for me to try other things and an opportunity
for my dad to be a one again. With my management team Brandon,
Bobby, Justin, all those guys Brandt at the time. So it felt right and it worked. My dad was happier. My dad’s an old school guy. I over communicated with my
dad but some things like family dynamics are tough
but it was great. I don’t know what episode
that it is with my dad. – Sasha’s cool. – We’re the best. And we love each other. And we love each other a lot. Maybe we could have had an
official conversation, we didn’t.
That’s the truth. – Sometimes it’s
easier that way. – I don’t recommend it. It was far from my preference. It was learned behavior over a
15 year period of time of how we work together. It was right for our, that’s why
I’m so scared to give advice all the time. Every situation’s different. Work-life balance,
parenting, family business. I give you my stories so I tell
the truth here now people are like Gary over communicated
but there he didn’t. Trying to give the truth
but that’s what happened. – [Mark] We got another question
here as well what’s the best

– [Mark] We got another question
here as well what’s the best attitude to have if
someone mimics your idea? – Great. Tech meetup van. You don’t own this idea. – No.
– Not at all. – What are you the first two
(censored) dudes to– – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – There’s been Taxi (censored)
Confessions, I mean come on. – Yeah course. – Be better. – Yep. Yep. – Get better guests, ask better
questions, execute better, put up better micro-content. Nobody gets to own
these ideas, guys. – We were never worried. People always say to us
what’s to stop the Startup Tram? – You’re not going to win
because of The Startup Van. It’s a shtick. It’s a cool thing that’s
(censored) cool, I like it by the way. But how you interview and who
you get and what you do with that content is. I’m not the first guy to
document my life and do a vlog. I’m not the first guy in social. It’s never the first,
it’s the best. It’s never the
first is the best. – The best. – Yeah, the best.
– The best. Do you know what I mean? And guess what, you and
I don’t get to decide we’re the best. – Yeah, I know.
– They do. Got it? – That’t the thing.
– Yeah, yep. – Since DailyVee came
out people can see,

that’s high praise
coming from you? – My parents.
– Your parents? – My parents
worked their faces off. My mom never and have
a nanny, we didn’t have a babysitter ever. She had three kids. My mom did everything for us. She regrets raising, I’m not
even capable doing my laundry. I’m a slob. My mom picked up
everything after me. Things that she
liked to joke about. That’s what she wanted to do. She did all the
work, no vacations. We took no vacations. Guys I took three,
three vacations in my life. We worked all the time. My dad worked every minute. My parents it’s learned
behavior by watching them and probably my own DNA. I respect my parents’ work
ethic and I respect all the single moms and
single dads out there. You know life is complicated.
Been thinking a lot about as I’m starting to build momentum as
somebody who’s advice is being taken seriously that I’m trying
to be very careful because I’m starting feel a bigger
sense of responsibility. – Yeah. – I’m starting to get nervous
to be very frank with you. Here giving advice and
tomorrow somebody’s spouse is going to die. Die. I had a distant
relative it hurts very bad. He was diagnosed at 65 or
55 as you can tell distant. Trying just to remember. 65 with cancer and
was gone a month. Gone. Now that kid, I know the kid
met him a couple times. Met him at some family
functions his advice is different now than
it was yesterday. – It’s just perspective. – There’s just all these
different variables, right? Who I respect? My parents because
I know that truth. Who else do I respect? Millions of people who work
really hard to provide because life gave them a curveball. You can do everything right
and your wife and kids can go get killed tomorrow by a
truck falling over on them. – Yeah, yeah.
– And so what? You’re gonna go
hustle the next day? You’re going to grieve. You’re gonna
adjust so I don’t know. I respect anybody who’s
trying as hard as they can, trying to live the
best life they can, trying to do the right things but no question my work ethic
only comes from two people and I think you guys know this about
me I don’t have any role models. I don’t care Richard Branson and
Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg and Albert Einstein and
Bill Gates none of these people inspire me.
They just don’t. My parents do and then it
flipped into my responsibility to my friends that worked for
me, my brother worked with me, the DRock’s of the world and
most importantly what’s given me unbelievable scale
is the community. I get inspired by people
wanting to take selfies with me. I get inspired with two guys who
are working their butt off in Ireland who really
really wanted me on the show. Because it would be good for
them to use my name to get other guests and I like that. – [Both] Yeah, yeah.
– I like that. Or appreciated my work or
a percentage of both that. Do you know what I mean?
– 100% yeah. – There’s a lot of ways
to get motivated outside. I love that I motivate people
but I don’t think we need the big names at the top of the
heap to be the motivators. – Yeah, that’s we decided
as well with start ups. We’re going to look after every
startup that we can interview from somebody who’s
opened from five days ago rather than two or three years. – We got a guy at the end of
January who literally came into van and he had quit his
full-time job that day. – Yeah. – And you could see the look
on his face was fear– – Sure.
– but it was good. – There is good fear.
– And we could sense. – He knew what he wanted and
went out for it which is great. – That’s awesome.
– Great to see. – [DRock] Let’s do
one more question. – Just one more question
on that, if you owned

The Startup Van and you were
to get one guest in, one guest, who would you get in? – Mark Zuckerberg.
– Mark Zuckerberg? – The best
entrepreneur of this generation. – Really?
– Sure. That’s instant boom. – Mark, call us. – That’s instant, go get Mark. Go see what that does for you. – That’s next. – Well we’re over in
the States soon enough. – Good for you.
– We’re in the States in July. – You’re going to take this? – Not this. We’re going to
get one over there. – How they going to get this? – It’s like Air Force One. Start Up Van.
– I get it. – So we’re going
over there in July. It’s going to be pretty cool.
– Cool. – Thanks so much
getting in The Startup Van.