do you think it’s a bad idea to
give your boss a heads up before receiving job offers so they
can prepare for your departure? – I think that’s every single person. You know,
that’s a tough question. A very smart question. To me, I wouldn’t tell them. I just think it’s a
survival of the fittest kind of thing. Like if you think
it’s a vulnerability that you’re not
gonna be able to find. Like I just don’t, that to me that’s
the risk thing. I just wouldn’t do that, because if they reacted poorly, even after five years,
thank you very much. Thank you, that’s very nice. Thanks Tyler, it made it! You know, I, I wouldn’t do that because that
could get you to zero, and I, you know, don’t forget, they fire you on the spot, then you start taking a job that you don’t necessarily
want just to pay. And now you’re
in a two year cycle of having crappy jobs. Like it could turn
into a whirlwind. Now, if your moral compass
is going off inside, like crazy and
you can’t sleep at night, then do you. Like, I just think everybody’s different. To me, doing the right thing is always the right thing and if for you
that’s the right thing, then that’s fine. But make sure that’s
the right thing for you, not the way your
mom sees the world, or your friends or anybody else. That has to be your decision. And if you’re okay
with the consequences, I’m okay with
the consequences of speaking the way I speak. Meaning, I leave lots of money on the table for cursing. I’m okay with that. You have to be okay
with the consequences. I hate people that are ideological, and then when they have
to face the consequences, they regret. You know, it’s the right thing. What’s the name? – [India] Erik. – Erik, it’s the right thing to do sounds good on paper. If it’s truly the right
thing to do for you, then great, then do it. But, if it’s not,
and then you get fired, and then you don’t
have another job, and who what? You showed a couple of people, “you’re a good guy?” Like, I think a lot
of people front. – [India] Interesting.
– Yeah. – [India] That’s actually not
what I expected. – You expect me to say,
yeah say it? – [India] Yeah. – It’s easy for
me to say, though. Right? By the way,
I wouldn’t do it, India. And people don’t do
it here all the time. Like, I know two
people right now that are actively on
the way of going out. And I don’t, I’m not
mad at them, I get it. Like, you know… I’m not
paying their mortgage. I’m not feeding their family. You know business is,
businesses fire. Like, you know, right? So, I don’t know, I get it. But I’m giving
the real answer here. I think that everybody’s different. But I definitely would
not tell my boss. I would work on it, get the job, and then I would go. That’s why I’m not a hypocrite. I never get mad when
people do that here. I understand, you know.
– [India] Yeah. – It’s scary. You know how
many people are living in this crazy, big, city, that we can now see. It’s expensive,
and they’re on their own, and they’re parents
couldn’t help them, and you know,
like, that’s scary. And then what
I really get sad is, people have done that here, people have quit,
without having a job, not for that reason, but for different reasons. And then they go
into a crappy job, ’cause they’re just scared, they’ve held off
for a couple months, but now they get really scared, and they take anything. And then they’re like, two years step back, you know? Alright…

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

“with vulturous, unethical investors? “Would you put ’em on blast?” – Yeah, I mean, if they’re truly vulturous or unethical investors, I’m more than willing
to put them on blast, but something about this question makes me also wanna say make sure that is true. The level of thin skinness in young, first-time business people, let me just say this for the record. The audacity that is running rampant in startup land, that you’re a 22 to 24
year old entrepreneur with zero proven record, and
you’re going to the world, and you want them to give
you one million dollars at a six million dollar
valuation on your idea pisses me the fuck off, and so the answer is yes to both. I would equally put an entrepreneur that is out of their goddamn mind that has not contextualized the insanity of the
marketplace that we live in as I would as an investor
who is being vulturous or unethical and doing the wrong thing, but please recognize sitting
in this ecosystem as I am, I have had a lot of
kids come to me and say, “Can you believe this other investor “that’s part of our deal?” And when I look at it, it is very normal. I would even say, 10 years
ago, soft negotiating, but by the thin skinness
of our society right now feels aggressive to this
23-year-old idea Ricky, and so I would say absolutely,
I would put them on blast, but boy would I double check that I don’t look like an
asshole five years from now for crying about somebody
just business negotiating, and I didn’t like it
because I’ve been so used to the world giving me eighth place trophies and Mom doing my homework and having no repercussions for anything for the first 22 years of my life.

“if the price is right? “Or do you turn down based on your values “and beliefs?” – This has been interesting. We’ve been having some
interesting situations happening at VaynerMedia
where I would say that East coast and West coast
political correctness bias over certain clients has
been rearing it’s head at VaynerMedia, and I’ve
been really struggling actually quite a bit lately on what, I don’t want to
be the judge and jury of VaynerMedia’s moral
compass on which clients we take and so I’m trying
to figure out if it’s legal in America, should
that be the line in the sand? It’s a great question. We have, I’ve been, this is a really,
really tough question and a great question. We have passed on clients, because of my own personal compass, you know like the Patriots, and we haven’t passed on the Patriots. That’s unfair to them. Though I still hate you Patriots, but I love Vayner Nation Patriot fans. I just hate how you roll with football. The answer is it’s
starting to rear it’s head. America has never been more divided. We have growing offices in middle America which
I think will take away some of the East coast,
West coast mentality. Everybody in this office
is divided on things like, should we not take sugar water? There’s plenty of people in this company that think we shouldn’t. Guns, I mean Jesus especially with the tragic events of yesterday and this
entire year and just like the last several years in America. Alcohol. Tobacco, I mean what if the biggest tobacco company came along to work with Vayner. I think there’s plent of people here that would have a tough time working on it would bow out, wouldn’t
want me to take it on. Is that my, you know, I think I made those
decisions my whole life for me as a person. It’s easy for me. It’s me, I’m accountable to me. I don’t do the sponsored
stuff that I don’t want to. I don’t do any sponsored stuff, but I’ve, for example,
I’ve been thinking a lot about getting a lead
sponsor for the #AskGaryVee show in 2016, because I need and want those dollars to apply to a lot more advertising to
learn more about growth of content online. I need real dollars. I’ve been thinking a lot about that, that’s interesting. I’ve never thought about that before, and never did it with Wine
Library, things of that nature. Would I take any brand? Absolutely not. I think that money is the last thing that drives me, but I also absolutely have no interest in idealistic over political correctness
dictating my decisions, and I think we have that, especially when you
live in New York, L.A., San Francisco, and so I
have to think of things as collective including
a global collective not just the United States of America. That’s my answer.

“integrity in the
communications industry?” – Dylan I want to too
and I think the answer is there absolutely is but I
think that there’s integrity, there’s very little integrity
in every single market, advertising, politics, sports, music. The reason integrity is so
attractive is it’s so hard. It’s far and few between and
integrity’s defined differently by everybody and I think
it’s interesting to watch. I actually think society
is giving people more room to be flawed, which is intriguing. I think the level of
integrity, the way integrity is viewed upon today I
think is in a much better place than it was by society
let’s say 50 years ago because I think we’re
now factoring in that nobody’s perfect and we’re making mistakes even by standards like
drugs and relationships and cheating, like intense
stuff, I think there’s an interesting evolution and I think that that’s allowed for a
little bit more gray and a little bit more if you’re
really on your high horse creating a scenario where
you judge integrity. But I think in a lot of ways
there’s plenty of integrity. I think there’s a ton of
integrity out there still. I’ve been saying this
a lot lately, I said on another video, are we gonna bang out that video that I did earlier today? – [Voiceover] Which one, we did four. – Yeah I know, the last one we did. – [Voiceover] The Twitter one? – Yeah, Staphon’s working on it? – [Voiceover] Yup. – In there I say, no I think
it was a different one. – [Voiceover] It was the other one. – It was in another one, I screwed up. But, I’m a big fan of this
thing that’s on my mind right now which is you find
what you’re looking for. You know, I see integrity everyday. Everyday and I think it’s
because I look for it and I look half glass full,
like this is Niagra Falls to me. Like this is a very full
glass and I think that plenty of people can see plenty
of what’s missing. I think that’s as much on you my man as it is on what’s actually
happening in the marketplace.

“to sacrifice your ethics
for a business win?” – Thomas, this is a great question. As you know, it’s because
of the #AskGaryVee Show and how busy I’ve been, I
haven’t been answering a lot of the #AskGaryVee, if any,
of the #AskGaryVee questions as they come through my Twitter feed. But I answered that one pretty damn quick. India, give me the call on
how fast I responded to that, in minutes or days. – [India] Looks like less than… – Less than a couple minutes, good. And the answer was a big, fat no. And by the way, I’m gonna break this down into an interesting place. So it’s not only no because
I wanna live a noble life and be a good dude and
like ethics matter to me, and my legacy. I think everybody who
knows me, knows my legacy. I’m obsessed with my legacy. Over the currency. So that would be that factor. But it’s also because I actually think it’s practically the right thing. I’m a big fan, right of the slower-hedged money. I feel like I make more money
if I don’t grasp at the money that’s in front of me and so
one of the biggest reasons I won’t break my ethics is,
if I do break my ethics, the people that I’m building
around me would see that. You know, my assistants
see everything that I do. They’ve complete ac– Steve, you access to my inbox?
– [Steve] I do. – Steve has full access to my inbox. If he sees, you know, it’s
hard to do anything now not documented. If I do something that breaks… At this point he as a good
sense of what my morals are and how I roll. He would, if he saw me do something, even if it didn’t have
anything to do with his world or the stuff that we do together, that breaks that compass, he would then have to question everything that I’ve established with
him as a moral compass. Which would then lose
the trust that we have. Which would then slow us down in all the speed that I value the most. It’s speed. The fact that this whole team here, and this whole collective team here and you as a team here don’t have to, once you get to know me. Once I can get over that hump. Don’t have to then question anything from a moral or emotional standpoint, it adds to the speed of everything. That’s what a great culture is. It’s speed. You’re not spending the 15
minutes a day bickering. You’re not spending the four hours a day wondering if that person’s
trying to ruin you. You’re not doing those things
which then lets you go fast. And fast, fast, my friends
is the oxygen of winning the big, fast, important game. See it’s even a game called fast. You have to be fast. (laughs) So for me, it’s really
important that everything breaks the second I make that kind of decision. And there’s just not enough money. I mean, I guess there’s enough money, everybody has a price. (inhales deeply) A trillion? (laughs) A trillion would feel– and you know what’s even funny? It’s funny, even if Zach came
out of my mouth, I don’t know, I don’t know, I’m gonna end up, I’m gonna end up leaving a
lot of money on the table in my life because that’s
not the way I score myself. I score myself on number
amount of people– The matrix of the number amount of people that come to my funeral
and the business success that I was able to create. I’d be lying if was just about everybody showing up to my funeral but then I was like, didn’t
win in this game that I played, scored in business growth,
dollars, all the things, the game But a hefty push to that funeral number. Again, recently,
unfortunately in a tech space we had a beloved character pass away of CEO of Survey Monkey
that a lot of people knew. A lot of my friends knew him really well. I didn’t really know him
well but it was interesting how I was affected by it
just watching the outpouring of what kind of a mensch, what kind of a great human being he was. I’d be lying if I didn’t say,
“Wow, that’s a little bit of a preview of what I
want at scale as well.” And so, you know it’s funny, I literally said a trillion and I’m taking it back. I just can’t go there. It’s just not the way I want
people talking about me. – [India] That’s it.