how important is it that
your significant other share your entrepreneurial vision? What was Lizzie’s impact
on building your empire? – Blake, this is a great question. Decided to get your question on the show. First of all, Lizzie’s impact on my career is much more than I expected. I grew up and would hear things like, behind every great man is a great woman. I’d be like psh. And not in a negative chauvinistic way but I was like, I’m hustling my face off. I’d be working every hour. And then you start growing and you mature and you become a man. Not a kid. And the truth is I’m
actually flabbergasted by the level of Liz’s impact on my career. Lizzie’s support and I mean utter 100 thousand percent support is a major factor. It gives me the head
space to be all in here at Vayner and doing my thing versus worrying about if
I’m five minutes late. I’m running late taping this right now. If I get home, it’s going…You know. It’s incredibly important in the fact if you prioritize your career. Curve ball. So it’s massively important
to give you head space to have as much freedom to execute on your vision professionally but the truth is when you fall in love with somebody, that person needs to take precedent over everything else and so at some level if you don’t have that, well, that just comes with
the consequences of love and that’s okay too. You may not be able to
hustle or work on it or work on it in a clear mind space and never give it 100 percent. I’m able to give 100 percent devotion to my businesses for enormous amounts of time every day because of Lizzie and the
way she rolls and supports. Some people can only put
73 percent of their time for a shorter period of time and they’re going to have limited success in comparison predicated
on their talent as well because talent is a variable. So it’s massively important for success but it’s not the only thing, is it?

“in five years?” Jeff, the truth is, I
don’t really see myself anywhere in five years. I am not a planner, I do
not have a five-year plan, I think all of us can
agree that five years ago, Instagram and Snapchat
didn’t exist. You know, GoPro, Netflix wasn’t what it is today. I mean, the world is
changing way too much for me to think where I’m gonna be
in five years professionally. Five years personally, I
will be in better shape, I will spend more time with
my family. I will be going to a lot of lacrosse games, and ballets, and shows, just trying to hack my life
to have a better balance. Professionally, I will be
doing what I always do, DRock, zoom on this ear, I
want you to go right in there. My friend, this ear will be
listening to the market place. I will be listening to the
market place and I will be adjusting on the fly in
real time and I will be running a business and
marketing like it’s 2017, like it’s 2019, like it’s
2022, like it’s 2027, I’m a reactionary, what I like to call, I am a half-time adjustments head coach. My game plan is okay going
into the game, I’m down 21-3 at halftime, I’ve got 15
minutes, I reverse, drop down, flip it and reverse it, I
come out and I win 27-24. That is who I am as an
entrepreneur, that is why I have no idea what I will
be doing or how I see myself professionally in five years.