– [Voiceover] Megan asks, “You’re like, “a billionaire, right? “What do you splurge on?” – Megan, I’m not even sure if I’m a 100-millionaire. Maybe with my assets, you know, VaynerMedia and Wine
Library are doing well, but I splurge on experiences. For example, LeBron’s first
game back in Cleveland against my Knicks, as you notice today I’m wearing orange because I’m starting to get ready for the basketball season. You can imagine why. So, experiences. You know, vacations with my family, and definitely things
like LeBron’s first game back in Cleveland, and
they play the Knicks. AJ’s a huge Knicks fan,
more so than even I am. Let’s go with him to that. Something me and my bro can remember when we’re much older. It’s cool to like, sit
around if you’re an old man and be like, “Remember when we went to “Kareem’s first game back in Milwaukee? “With the Lakers?” That’s like a fun story. Those are the kind of
things, I want to spend money on experiences. Paying for my friends to go
on trips when I was younger, when they couldn’t afford it. I splurge on spending time with people that I care about.

“I’m curious to know
what your thoughts are on tech consumption by young children.” – This is an interesting
one, because I’ve done a lot of lucky, serendipitous piggybacking on today’s questions, because
I just went into that. And you know, kids are
all up in this right now, and I think it’s evolution. I mean, if you were to ask the person that was like me
during the caveman days, on his or her show, what you think about humans
that look like us today, all of you cavemen and
women would be like, no, ugh, ugh, ugh, terrible, but we’ve evolved. And I think that children are
growing up with technology. We are definitely going
into that futuristic world. And I think it’s great. I think that there are going to be different versions of us, but that’s not bad. I’m not the dad that’s gonna be like, “Get outside and play.” Of course I want them to be healthy, but don’t forget, our kids are eating a hell of a lot better than any of us. All our Big Macs everyday are a hell of a lot
different than kale chips that we’re all growing up with now. And so there’s trade offs. Not to mention more people work out now. So, you know, I think they’re
gonna be more informational. Listen to me, less information-smart, because it’s a commodity,
’cause anything you want to know is here. And I think there’s just
gonna be different characters. And so, I’m super excited about it. I think it’s uh, I think it’s uh, phenomenal. I love that children are growing up totally different. I love that I see Xander
thinking everything swipes. There’s some downsides,
like everything else. I’m worried about them being as active, but you can, if you’re a good parent, you can do whatever you want. But I’m not restricting
hours of a second screen, or a third screen for my children, because I think it’s
actually prepping them for the world that’s actually gonna exist. Straight up. It’s kind of almost like alcohol, right? Like kids, like, wanna
drink because in America we don’t let them drink. And so, like, you know
the kids that are gonna be restricted to one hour a day are gonna over-value this, and so, um, I’m very fascinated by it, and I’m a very go-with-the-flow kind of character. And I’ll also adjust to the reality of how my kids adopt to it. That is episode 24 of
the #AskGaryVee Show.

This is not the outfit to do it in, so, one second. Okay, whew. – You’re wrong, brother. You had the right outfit on the first time.
– [Man in suit] I have these, occasional rushes of motivation. It’s like, yes. Now I’m gonna do this. But after a few days, that motivation goes away. So how do you get that constant stream of motivation? Thanks a lot. – You know speakin’, you know, this piggybacks well off of the last question. Ya know, my motivation
comes from a couple places. One, I love what I do. You know, you may not love, again, back to what you want. Especially seeing a lot of the youngsters jumping in today’s show, you may think that doing things is the process needed to what you want, which is you wanna be in Las Vegas with 30 beautiful women around you, and like, drinking
champagne and going crazy. Like, I don’t like that stuff. No, I don’t. You know, I don’t like that stuff. I like the process. So, you know, to me there’s
two things that drive me. One, I love what I do,
for the billionth time. My separating aspect from a lot of you, I’m keepin’ it real, is I love working, I
love putting in the work, I love the headaches,
I love HR nightmares, I love it. I like it. I like the grind. I like that I have a 6:30 call today with an upset customer. I like that. And so, that’s number one. Number two is straight up gratitude. You wanna have real fuel? I don’t know what this meant. I’m just trying to become Superman. If you want real fuel, that was injecting gratitude, You want real fuel to win? Be grateful. Now you can’t be grateful. You can’t watch this video and be like, oh great, Gary Vee said I’m not grateful. In me, in my personality is gratitude. The self-awareness that I was born in the, in the Soviet Union, that the
timing of when I was born, was better than when my dad was born, better than when my
grandparents were born there. It created a scenario
where this moment in time, where America and Israel got together, and made a deal with the Soviet Union, and people were able to leave the country, and that’s it. I got really lucky that,
what I’m great at is, is really kind of glamorized here. Entrepreneur businessman,
whereas in Russia, who knows, I’d probably
be dead or a trillionaire. And so, I’m just grateful. I’m grateful for the greatest parents that one could ask for. I’m grateful for, like, amazing wife. A lot of, unfortunately, I
lost a lot of my grandparents before I was even five. So I haven’t had a lot of death. And so, you know, it’s really like, I don’t even have a gear that’s like, woe is me or too bad. First of all, I also
don’t like complaining. I’ve made this bed. Like I feel ill today, I’m
under the weather, right? But I’m not like, oh. We’re always like, watch this. Here, I don’t know if you can get in here. People are gonna like this. Let’s show something of fun to everybody. I don’t know, talk to me. Can people see the schedule? – [DRock] Yep, they can. – Yep, I mean, like, you know. So schedule, right? Like, workout at 6:30, and travel, and meeting, and meeting, and meeting, and speak, and call, and
speak, and tape the show, right, and then call, and then
meeting, and then meeting, and then meeting, and then meeting. And if you’re paying
attention to 10 minutes, 10 minutes,10 minutes,
five minutes, 15 minutes. Planning meeting, call,
call, coffee, meeting, meeting, meeting,
meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting,
and today’s a good day, ’cause it’s a Friday. Because I get to be done, you know, by eight o’clock, with
dinner with some friends. But like, when you go back, you know, I mean, the bottom line
is, I’m in meeting, well this is Jet’s game. But, but (phone clanking against table), I’m making my bed. I’m making my bed, I’m going forward. I’m hustling from six to 11 pm everyday, with every second allocated. There is no break. There’s no, there’s no eat a salad, and read Reddit, or watch YouTube. That is not in my game. Yes, Steve, that was for you. You know that is not in my game. And so, because I’ve made my bed, I’m surely not gonna complain and be like, oh, I’m sick today. Like, I just, you know, no. So that’s it. I don’t even remember
what I was answering., but that’s what I think. (laughing)

“Would you ever automate your position, delegate to as many people as it takes, and spend 95% of your time fully engaged in family and life?” – Absolutely not. And as a young entrepreneur, Young Entrepreneur, let
me tell you something from Old Entrepreneur. Which is, I love the process of the work. I love the grind. I love the climb. You know, I love the idea of
getting to buying the Jets, more so than buying the Jets. It’s the process. To delegate out what I love, would defeat the purpose. Of course, I wanna spend as much time with my family, as possible. But that would be lying to my soul if I didn’t do what I wanna do. And what I want to do for a living is build organizations, build companies, create commerce, be a salesman, be a guidance counselor, HR character, social commentate and put out content. I would suffocate if I
couldn’t put out the work that’s needed to accomplish
the things that I want. Psst. The problem Young Entrepreneur, especially when you’re
a young entrepreneur, is people want stuff, right? They want the bling-bling here, right? They want the cool ass kicks. They want the car, they
want the jet, not the Jets. They want stuff. I don’t want stuff. I want the sweat, and the pain, and the gratitude, and the, you know, happiness that comes along with the work. I want the work, I don’t want the stuff. – Hey Gary, I’ve got a very
simple question for you.

“about business, brands, et cetera. “What’s the one life
lesson you have learned “since becoming a father?” – Sean, this is a fun question for me. I appreciate it. You know, I love this show because I’m really shooting straight,
and in me shooting straight you’re gonna all really realize how much of a contradiction I really am. You’re gonna figure out how
much of an ego I actually have. You’re gonna figure out how
much humility I actually have. This is gonna go on the ego side. I’ve always been nurturing. I love HR and the team, and
like, you guys, the community. I have a lot of nurturing DNA. I’m a motherly kind of character. I also have an 11 year younger brother that gave me a test run into fatherhood, because my brother and I have
that kind of relationship, especially cause my dad
is such a workaholic, wasn’t around as much. Though much more for AJ than me, I just want to throw that out there. He did go to some of his basketball games, which I’m still jealous about, and in general my dad’s
kind of an old-school, less nurturing, let’s put
it that way, kind of guy, and so, you know, when
I’m 19, AJ is eight. What that did for me in a lot of ways was, you know, it’s not the same. A brother, even as much as I love AJ, it’s a different feeling from children. I think the thing that it’s taught me is, I want to say unconditional
love, but the truth is I probably love my parents and siblings more than the average person from what I’ve been able to gather. It’s taught me things I knew, which is the fear that I have for any, Misha, yesterday, talking to me about somebody called her a chatterbox
and it hurt her feelings. A, made me laugh, because
she’s like her dad, and I’m like, I remember going, “My music teacher in first grade called me “a machine mouth,” or
something pretty tough. Anyway, motor mouth, thank you. So she’s going through that
stuff and it was crazy to me to sit there and feel how much pain I felt and we’re not even in bullying zone, or zits zone, or awkward teen years zone, so it’s teaching me that,
as much as I love my parents and my siblings and
all these other things, the love I have for those two is deep, and it’s hardcore. – Hey Gary. Tony Brown here from tonylbrown.com,

“If you could go back to your early 20s, “would you prioritize health, “or was neglecting it necessary
to get where you are today?” – Edward, great question. I wanted to address this. One of the great things
of the show I keep saying is that I’m going to answer questions I haven’t been able to answer, and so, thanks for all of
you of getting me to 21. But the other thing I get to
do is clear up some things, so we’re picking some questions. I think I sent this one
to you Steve, right? Yeah, we get to clarify on the show. This is the clarity hour, my friends. We get to clarify a little bit on the show and what we are going to clarify is this. I bet you a lot of
people are going to think I’m going to go in one direction,
but I’m going in another. The answer is I wish I
prioritized my health. I could have slept one hour less. I could have played one hour
less of Settlers of Catan with my brother back in the day. I could have worked, this is a crazy one. I could have worked one less hour. I could have done a whole lot of things, but I should’ve found that one hour to do what I’ve been doing for the last 65 days, and prioritize my health. So, if I could go back, I’d be working out and eating
the way I’m doing it now, all the way back since then. Psst, real quick, I wasn’t joking.

“What’s your best tip
for time management?” – Pedro, actually, I don’t know. My tip for time management
is to have an assistant who you make the czar of
your time and there’s this. Let’s go find Matt DeMayo actually. Let’s get out of the cube a little bit. Let’s see if we can find DeMayo. So for me, the time
management is humanly scaled. What I basically do is
I find a human being that allows me to do it
and so in this scenario, that dude is my, that’s my answer for time management, putting human being who
actually is the czar. Matt, would you say
you’re the czar of time? – That might be a bit
much but I’m good with it. – And so, he knocks on the window and says your next meeting and he texts me and he’s
like, “Are you on this call?” So, that’s what I do. I use human beings. Obviously, using a human
being to manage your time is not very practical
for most of the audience. So, I’m going to try to
give some practicality, which is I really don’t know because prior to using a human being, I didn’t really have a great system. Obviously, we have technology now, like phones that buzz
you and Google calendars. I don’t know how people do it. I just think it becomes a religion. I decided my time was worth a lot to me and I created infrastructure around it. For me, it was humans. For you, it’s got to be something that reverse engineers
your actual behavior.

curious how you feel about
the impact you’ve made on people you’ve touched
and inspired over the years. – Carlos thank you so
much for that question. It’s very sweet. You know, a lot of you really know me because you’ve been following my career for quite a while and
we interact quite a bit and I think I’m more
tangibly and touchable than a lot of the other kind
of people that look like me and we engage quite a bit and I have a lot of contacts,
back to question number one, in comparison to others and
all that, blah, blah, blah, but the truth is, most of you don’t really, really, really know me and I think that, you
know, with the hustler and businessman and the north star of buying the New York Jets, one would say, he loves
and wants to buy the Jets more than anything and thus, the money associated with that process is very important to him. It is a distant second to
know that I’ve been gifted with a communication
style that touches people, that makes them, you know, maybe I’m saying the same
thing they’ve heard before, it’s either my conviction
or it comes from my soul in such a way, I talk about
what I believe in so much that it’s been able to move people. Crush It! was clearly a catalyst ’cause that book really
did move people’s careers. So many of you have been affected. It blows my mind actually to think about how many people have been affected even in small ways. Creating more positivity for some people and there’s just so many variables of how I’ve affected people and I don’t say that in like, look at how cool I am, I’m just so goddamn thankful, you know. It’s, you know, so how
do I think about it? I think it is my legacy. I think it is the essence
of who I am as a human being and it is the singular thing
that I’m most proud of. And it gives me enormous confidence of what kind of parent I’m going to be and that makes me very, very happy. – So um, you know, Gary Vay-ner-chuk,

– [Voiceover] Iwona asks, “What would you do if you
were in your dad’s shoes “and you didn’t come to
the US until you were 23?” – You know, Iwona, I want to believe that if I came to the US in the way that my dad did, which was not only at 23 years old, but also with a child and
another one on the way, that I would do the
same thing that he did, which was completely work
his face off to allow the next generation to kind
of build on top of that, and so, you know, I don’t think I would’ve
done anything different. I think a lot of it’s circumstance. My dad had a great uncle
who had a liquor store that he got to work in. That great uncle passed away and it was just all these
kind of different variables. I think circumstance has a lot to do with what I would’ve done, but the one thing I
know I would’ve done is work every hour of every day.

– [Voiceover] Trey wants
to know what situations do you find yourself most comfortable in? – Trey, this is a great
question, you know, I loved it when Steve brought it up, like how he wanted to do this
question, of course, this is like a humble brag question. (bell) You know, I mean, where am I most awesome? You know, listen, the
thing I take most pride in is I’m probably probably
best when it’s chaotic. And I think a lot of
people fold in that sense, but to me I take enormous pride, what I don’t know is I’m really great in chaotic non-threatening,
I’m being very honest here ’cause I don’t I wanna (bell)
disguise this humble brag with a little humility, ’cause
that’s how I like to roll, you know, I I’m great in
business when we’re in real trouble, like I’m
great, that’s my world. I’m really good when people
are upset, you know, like, a kid in my class died in
a car accident senior year and like I like I was
proud in the way I helped a lot of people I’m
really strong emotionally. What I’m not sure about is
if like somebody came up and punched my wife in the
face, like, what would I do? Like I’m such a lover not
a fighter, that I always question myself in that
moment, I actually think I come out guns blazing, but
it’s never really happened. But I’m most comfortable in chaos. As a matter of fact, and
people can tell you this in the office, these guys
can mention it, I mean you’ve seen this stop, I’m
like rolling my, ringin’ these, I hate quiet and standard. I like walking into
VaynerMedia everybody’s got their headphones
on, like, can somebody play some music? Like, all this is like
way not enough for me. My wife actually like
keeps making fun of me because the other day I
somehow said something like New York’s too slow for
me, she’s like “shut the” you know like like I I’m best when there’s a crapload going on. My friends, I really appreciate
you watching this show.