– [Voiceover] Elisha asks,
“the dress-code at Vayner is clearly casual, do you think dress affects professionalism or performance? – That’s a really solid question,
the answer is very deep, the answer is no. I think
that dress does not impact the performance or professionalism. I know that some people disagree with me, I think those people are
going to lose, period. – [Voiceover] Charles asks,
“is the #AskGaryVee show

– [Voiceover] Evan asks, “If
you could clone yourself, “would you?” – Evan, this is a tremendous question, and a great one to end the year. Especially ’cause I
announced that I’m going away with my family for two weeks. This is as easy a
question as they’ve come. I would 100%, I mean this is the best, I really wish this technology existed because I would take
that person, Gary Two. Who is actually Gary Two? The clone version, or? Anyway, I would take the clone version and I would make that person spend every waking moment with my family. They’d sit at home, you guys, what’s that? (laughs) Why is that funny? – [Steve] I thought it was a nice answer. – [DRock] I would send
the first one first. – What’s that? – [DRock] I would send yourself. – Oh, I don’t care. Keep this rolling by
the way, first of all. No editing here. No, no, I don’t think you understand. The fact of the matter is
is they’re the same person. Are you saying that, no but listen, maybe that was
an insight that we didn’t, maybe I love my business
more than my family. Sorry, this is a tough way
to end the show and the year. The bottom line is, sorry
that DRock has become the cynical one, but, Steve, the torch has been passed, I would take the equal version of it and have that person
sit at home every minute and be with my family because then I would be able to accomplish the
two things that I want at one time, and so that
would be the answer. (laughs)

what does hustle look like for you now versus five or even 10 years ago? Why has it changed? – This is such a great question. Thanks Harvest for it. And I’m gonna expand on it. I’m gonna long form on, I was even talking to DRock and Staphon that this might have to turn into a three to five minute video movie because I’m starting to
have this weird realization. I’ve been talking to Mike, Trainer Mike, about this during the workouts which is like, wait a minute. Was I really hustling at 25 to 30? I wasn’t into email culture yet nor was the wine industry nor was society. The store closed at nine. You know, after a while 7:30 felt like the appropriate time to leave. You know, I had girlfriends
that I lived with. Brandon, my best friend
who runs Wine Library lived above me. And like, you know, I can
sit here and think about, you know, 8:30 at night
on a Wednesday at 26 playing like Monopoly on GameCube and that is just not even remotely close in the equation at this point. You know, it’s really
fun to be a businessman instead of an athlete because your prime is so much further down the path and you have so much
more time to get there. Wait no, look athletes,
a lot of those people, those kids are, you know, hustling in Junior High and High School and so maybe the timing’s a
little bit different but, you know, the truth is my hustle today is at an all-time high
especially since June 7th when I’ve incorporated working out which has driven me to
wake up so much earlier. Not that I have more energy
’cause I was high on sugar, I’ve come to realize but, I can tell you this. Let’s start with this. Every person right here in this circle, this inner circle of five and anybody out there that really knows and some of you have watched and I’ve thrown up my
calendar here and there, nobody comes close to me and really sniffs my level of hustle and
how much work I put in and don’t take a step
back in saying, really? Because it is literally
every second of every minute of every day for a very
long period of time and you hear about it,
Alex heard about it. He was a fan. He knew what I was spitting
through this, right. He worked at VaynerMedia but until he got a little
closer, it gets really intense. It gets intense when I’m
working the way I’m working and I’m texting 17 times on a
Saturday while I’m in the air and saying do this, do
this and this, and this. I’m gonna do this and
this and this and this and this and this. And so, my hustle is up.

“How do you not procrastinate that well?” – Cédric. It’s unbelievable how well Cedric the Entertainer branded himself, because I literally was about to call Cédric here the Entertainer. Cédric, I’m calling you the Entertainer. As a matter of fact, I want to make a little piece of content for Cédric and I’ll tweet it out. Cédric, you won. I need a little “Cédric
is the Entertainer,” take his Twitter profile,
and we’re gonna make him. This is a new thing we can
do on the #AskGaryVee Show. We could make things for
fans, one-off t-shirts, pieces of content, I’m
seeing something here. This is gonna make a lot more people ask a lot more questions. Cédric, here’s a curveball, I actually think I’m an
obnoxious procrastinator, while equally not being. Meaning I stay in constant audit mode. Can I get a constant
audit mode alert here? By the way, I have to
watch yesterday’s episode to see what you did with the alerts. Yesterday had a lot of editing.
I gotta watch it outright. I don’t watch my stuff, by the way. It’s a little fun fact for all of you. Sorry, DRock, Staphon,
get to see the great work. There’s a ton of stuff
that I procrastinate, and I think I’m a procrastinator, but what I think I also am is always leveling up
whatever’s most important and prioritizing it in real time. Team can tell you here, I bet you Steve’s favorite inside joke is DeMayo. Can somebody get me the, literally, get me DeMayo? Watch this. This will answer your question
perfectly, VaynerNation, because the truth is, I do procrastinate, but I’m adjusting to
the reality of my life at the moment I’m living it, so if something is
super-important yesterday, I can literally decide that
it’s less important in an hour, predicated on what comes into my inbox, or the meeting that I’m about
to have right after this. And so the reason I think
it feels like I’m not, and so much is getting accomplished, is my pants are on fire for the thing that I deem most important at this exact moment. And that is how it works over and over, where’s DeMayo? And over. I’m trying to stall here. And over, and over, and over again. Let’s go to the next question,
we’ll get back to DeMayo. – [Man offscreen] Oh, here he is. – Oh, here we go. Don’t go, DRock. Leave all that. Don’t
edit that, I’ll be pissed. Now, tell the VaynerNation how– – What’s up, world. – Tell the VaynerNation
how often I’ll send an email that will say “now, this is top priority” versus the next day, this is top priority, and then you get crippled
by the notion of, hold on.
(laughter) If, like, literally, when I’m like, no no, this is the #1 priority in my life. – No, tippy-top priority
is the way you always say. – Tippy-top? Tippy-top. – TIppy-top priority. Yeah, probably every
time you’re on a flight, there’s probably about 15 emails
that come after the flight. – And then you struggle
with, like, what’s tippy-top versus number one. – Yeah, unless you say tippy-top priority. – Is that the new context? (laughter) – If that’s what you’ve
been using for the month. – Alright. – So maybe it’ll change for the new year. – Thanks, man. And that’s what happens, right? Matt, my admin, you know, he has to struggle through what is tippy-top priority of the moment, because it might change tomorrow, so as long as you’re executing
something every day, as a tippy-top priority item, then you’re moving the needle. And sure, something might have moved from second most important
to fourth most important to ninth most important, Alex, you’re dealing with this right now. A lot of things that you
would have dealt with, like BizDev was like the most important, you can’t get a minute from me because something has caused it to become the eighth most important thing versus the number one important thing, and, like, there’s a lot of serendipity, Steve’s been waiting
for this top six things at WineLibrary for four days, I found a minute, I decided it was tippy-top
priority of that minute, and it just works that way at all times. – [Voiceover] Pressian asks,
“How exactly did your mother

– [Voiceover] Amanda asks,
“What ways can agencies “make staff meetings more productive?” – Amanda, I love this question. By the way, I just took
my wedding ring off. Big week for me. Turned 39 and had my 10th
wedding anniversary this week. Thursday is the wedding anniversary, Friday is my birthday. That’s right, at midnight at my wedding, the whole wedding party
sang me Happy Birthday. That’s how I roll. Amanda, Amanda right? Amanda, great question. The best way to make
meetings more efficient is to cut them in half. To cut them in, to cut seven eighths out of them. The amount of bullcrap
that goes on in a meeting, the set-up, this and that, one thing I’ve just noticed, I hired a couple of very
senior executives recently, three or four SVPs, very
senior people here at Vayner, and to a tee, each of
them have come up to me and said, “Wow, your
meetings are so weird. “They’re five minutes,
they’re ten minutes, “they’re 15 minutes.” Because most of it doesn’t matter. This is becoming the theme of this show. It just doesn’t matter. So I think one of the best
ways to make it efficient is to cut them in time. One of the things that I realized is that people will fit 10 pounds of crap into a 10 pound bag. You give them a 15 pound bag,
that’s what they fit it into. They don’t overfill. What I mean by that is, if
you have a one hour meeting, if we have a one hour meeting, we’ll fit what we need to
get into that into that hour. We’ll banter a little bit,
we’ll go a little bit deeper, but if we cut that same
meeting to 15 minutes, we’ll still accomplish that,
and we’ve saved the 45. So the answer to your
question is restrictions. Create a mandate for the
length of the meeting. – Hi Gary, my name’s Brent Wampler,