- On this episode, I talk about piss poor things,
double consumption, and my last five breaths in my life.
You ask questions, and I answer them.
This the #AskGaryVee Show.
Hey everybody, this is Gary Vay-ner-chuk
and welcome to episode 40 of The #AskGaryVee Show.
- [Voiceover] Oto asks, "I like how you talk
"about 'execution' in business.
"How do you prioritize which project to execute first?"
- Oto, great question.
By the way, real quick, thank you everybody
for getting me to 40. Also, all the people watching,
I need you to get into the podcast.
Podcast people, watch.
I want people listening and watching every episode.
Is that too much to ask?
I think it's double consumption.
It's #DoubleConsumption that's a hashtag,
want to see if any of you use it on Twitter.
Oto, the way I prioritize is to equally
with my intuition, so it's a judgment call,
equally take care of the things that are most on fire,
the biggest problems, balanced with going on the offense
on the biggest upside things and the biggest things,
the culture, a new client.
So take care of these three employees that are fighting,
and they're not getting along,
really, you know, on fire, or a client that's really upset,
and then over here, strike the vision.
What are we doing with the video department?
Where are we going?
Like, what am I doing?
Like, where's this all going?
How do I buy the jets?
And nothing in the middle.
Oto, VaynerNation, the middle is dangerous.
- [Voiceover] Yoli asks, "Before you had an assistant,
"how did you structure your day?"
- Yoli, first of all, I just wanted to tell you
I appreciate all the interaction.
Thanks for being a supporter of The #AskGaryVee Show.
By the way, back to the last question.
The middle is dangerous.
Pre-assistant.
I mean, it was a disa--
I was such a bad person, you know,
I had this power position at Wine Library,
where I was one of the biggest wine buyers in the world,
or definitely in the U.S., in the world.
And nothing got to my head, but I was like look,
somebody can wait 15 minutes or 20 minutes
if I'm like, you know, finishing up this meeting.
They're here to sell me.
So I kind of took the, you know, the buyer's approach
mentality to that.
But what was bad was I would triple book people,
like literally, I used to be like on floor at 11:30
in the morning helping somebody with, you know,
a big selection for a party, and I'd see like
somebody walk in, and be like oh yeah, that's right,
I have a meeting with Craig.
And I'd be like yeah, you should try this Pinot Noir,
and then I'd be like oh crap, why did Frank just come in?
That's right, I have a meeting with Frank,
and I think it's at the same time.
That's bad, let me figure out what I'm gonna do.
And by the way, you need a little cheese for your party.
Why did Sally just walk in?
Holy crap, I'm triple booked, and this would happen a lot.
And it was complete chaos, it was disorganized.
It wasn't efficient, and it was piss poor.
- [Voiceover] Z asks, "If you were to jump
"in a time machine, travel back to speak
"to your 21 year old self, and only have one minute,
"what do you say?"
- Z, I would tell that person to hook up with more chicks,
and not work as many hours.
And I know that can be crass,
and obviously, you know, what that crass statement
is really saying is have a little more fun, right?
You're gonna accomplish your things.
You're gonna pull it off, you know.
I appreciate that you do have business patience,
but you need to spend a little bit more time
with your friends. You can go on one more vacation.
You can go do a keg stand, need to live a little bit
because you're gonna have a family,
which is gonna be amazing.
You're gonna be busy as crap,
and you're gonna run out of this time,
you're only 21 once.
- [Voiceover] Tiger asks, "If your dad Sasha
"would of ended up in construction,
"how do you think it would have affected your life
"without Wine Library?"
- Tiger, great question, and by the way,
this is a big shout out episode 40
for everybody who's asking for a little bit more condensed,
we're keeping it tight on the four oh.
I wish I said to the 21 year old self to drink more 40s.
That would have tied in the.
Anyway, Tiger, you know what?
I think about this a lot.
And I'm gonna, I promised myself,
and you guys have heard me talk about this,
to be honest on this show,
and this is tough for me to say.
There is a big part of me that thinks I'd be more successful
if I didn't go into the family business.
I wouldn't have had the head start
that many people can say I had, and I respect that,
but my intuition tells me that I would have
been even a little more hustler, right?
Maybe, maybe to a bad degree.
But I could see myself, my intuition,
and I've thought about this a lot by the way,
is that I would have head out west
during the internet boom, I probably would
have had a company worth $800 million
going public in 1999, that would have went to $1
in stock value, but I would have learned things
in that that might've made me bet even harder
on Facebook and Twitter and Uber than I did,
and so, you know, my intuition,
maybe cause I have ego, maybe because I have bravado,
is if my dad didn't have an amazing set up for me
to go in to, if I didn't fall in love with the
family business and want to be a part of it,
and don't forget, I was making a lot of money
selling baseball cards.
I could've went down that route.
There's just, I feel like I would've really
found my way, and I feel that my dad
taught me honor and a lot of conservativeness
that has helped me not veer off or have losses,
but I think sucked out a little bit of my speed
and aggressiveness, and that may sound weird to you guys,
but I do believe that, and I do wonder if
man, I might have been more financially along.
However, and let me put this stake in the ground,
it's the best thing that ever happened to me,
because forget about the monies,
those 10 years specifically when I was full time
of spending that many hours with my dad,
when I'm on my last breath, when I'm laying there
and I'm dying, there's no question in my mind
that those will be one of the two or three things,
obviously all the things I've about to have with my kids,
probably a selfish thing about how many
Superbowls I won, but like, you know,
those, that, those 10 years with my dad
will definitely 100% be one of the final five thoughts
as I die, and to me that is an incredible
accomplishment and something I'm grateful for,
and very thankful for.
My friends, thank you for watching episode four oh.
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