– Hey Gary, my name is
Michael, I like almonds, and reading books. My question for you is, what
can cause the extinction of the real estate agent, as we know it? You keep making t-shirts,
and I’ll keep buying them. Oh, and one more thing, ting! – (laughs) The bar has been raised
for video questions, VaynerNation take note,
the bar has been raised. Amazing question, thank you so much, guys. Great production. DRock,
you love it, right? That was good. Staphon,
yea that was good stuff. I actually don’t think
that there is a lot, you know, I think there
is a false sentiment in the market that
technology eliminates humans. I think technology sets up
the humans that understand how to use that technology
to leverage ahead against the other humans that don’t. So, what eliminates the real
estate agents of the moment, in the future? Well, it’s
their lack of innovation and adjusting to the tools
that are at their hands, and then just becoming a dying breed. My friends, I’m not making up
or talking about anything new. Innovation has forever,
the phone, the yellowpages, radio, television, the
internet, direct mail, video game marketing. Every time there’s been
another innovation, and that will happen forever, it kills off the prior animal
unless the animal is unable to adjust, and it’s not an age thing, there is tons of 60 year olds right now that are crushing modern day marketing. The percentage is very small, and it comes out of getting fat, right? It comes out of, you just made
enough money at this point, you’re on to new and better
things, and I mean that. You guys hear a lot of hustle
from me, but I’m enormously happy for the gal that’s
63, making 240 a year, and, you know, put in her dues,
and she wants to go to the fancy food show on
that Tuesday instead of calling 100 people and
selling another apartment, or she wants to spend an extra weekend in an Aspen timeshare. Do your thing. When I talk about hustle,
please know that I’m not judging you. It’s all
predicated on what you want. The only people I make
my hustle stuff for, are the people that are talking shit, that they want fucking things to happen, and they want to win,
and they want to buy–, “I’m gonna buy the Clippers
when you buy the Jets,” dude, you work four f**king
hours, you ain’t buying shit. And so, that’s where I get pissed off. But if you’ve decided consciously that you want to have a great work life balance and things of that
nature, then that’s great, and those are the people
that get disrupted. They’ve lost the hunger
for a better thing, I’m not looking down at them. Congrats. Let me tell you a real
freaking secret here on the #AskGaryVee Show episode 60. If tomorrow I read that there
was a new drug in the market, FDA approved, and I could
take it, and it would take–, this is gonna f**k with
a lot of your heads, and it could take ambition out of my body, I would do it. My gift is my curse. I love what I do, but I promise you, and so many of you are about
to be disappointed with me, but I’m talking truth
here, I would take the pill that would get me down to ten percent less ambition and hunger because I’d have a
little bit more balance, and there is a lot of attractive
things that come along with that balance. But that’s not the way it is, and, honestly, I’m super
pumped the way I have it, so, and, weirdly, as I’d said that out loud, I kinda don’t wanna take the pill, but, you get the jist, right? And so, who gets disrupted? Fat cats. – [Voiceover] John asks, “you
give with zero expectation

– [Voiceover] Mike asks, I’ve caught a few of your #AskGaryVee shows
and love the content. What are your thoughts on Google+? Why do you continue to use it? – Mike, I think Google+
is a failure for Google. Once again, a big company that is amazing, maybe, actually, my pick
for the best company in tech in the world. But, just doing something
outside of their DNA. They try to copy something. It was ill-fated in my opinion. I still use it because there’s
an audience of mine there. It ties in nicely to the YouTube society. There’s a small niche group of people that I massively respect from Google+ that are early adopters of technology, early Twitter users and they’ve
created a nice community. And much like every social
network besides Twitter, most social networks are not so social. They’re content distribution
portals, unfortunately. And I’ve got some audience there and I will continue to
distribute my content considering that it’s so
native to the YouTube platform where so much of this goes. I mean, obviously people
listening on the podcast know. I was talking to a bunch of people that are listening to the podcast. Hey podcast peeps, you know, that how sometimes they go and run and watch the show. As a matter of fact, one of
our VaynerMedia employees heard me say Asia and something else and thought that I called you Asia because they thought
that I was thinking India and I said Asia and then
I punched them in the face and said, “Do you really
think I wouldn’t know that?” Anyway, so they wanna watch
the video is my point. My big point is, what I think about it is, it’s a loss but it still has value and that’s something that I want everybody to pay attention to. Nothing is ever dead. I talk about email open rates being down but email’s probably at the
top of my marketing strategy. It’s not about 100 or
zero, it’s where is it at this moment. And where Google+ is at this moment is it still merits the
minimal time it takes for me to post a YouTube
video on that platform and occasionally engage
with that community. Something that MySpace
no longer brings to me but did in 2009 and 10
with Wine Library TV. Get it?