- Hey, YouTube, before I start this episode,
you guys have been bullshitting.
Way too many of you are watching the show,
taking all the value for free
and giving me dick in comments.
I need a comment today. Do it.
On this episode, we talk about my twenties,
desktop in 20 years,
and if it's okay for celebrities to bullshit you.
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You ask questions
and I answer them.
This is
the #AskGaryVee Show.
Hey everybody, this is Gary Vay-ner-chuk
and this is episode 112
of the #AskGaryVee Show.
Super pumped here today.
It looks like we're organizing for an all hands-on meeting
that I don't have to run, which feels very good.
That's the maturity of the company itself.
Big ups to everybody who is supporting the show.
I want you to know VaynerNation,
I'm making this very black and white.
This episode would never have happened, 35, 40, 60 days ago.
I'm, like, in meetings right now.
I should be in a meeting right this second.
I'm real tight right now.
I have to go to Cannes for the big advertising festival.
Literally this was exactly,
I see everybody shaking their head.
You don't have the cameras on them.
This was exactly the kind of episodes
that were not happening 60, 90, 120 days ago
because running companies is what I do
and this would get trumped,
but your enormous word of mouth,
passing on the show, getting me new people,
Instagram explosion, Facebook tagging each other.
YouTube, I wanna talk to you.
I just realized how many of you are watching on YouTube.
If you don't leave a comment here, I'm gonna be pissed.
Way more watching than commenting.
You're getting lazy on me, YouTube. Step up.
But I want you all to know, you get this show
strictly because of the momentum,
India,
the momentum,
Staphon,
the momentum we are creating.
India,
let's get into.
- [India] Hello.
- [Both] The show. (laughter) - Yes, the show.
Let's go.
- [Voiceover] Yule asks:
"In your mid-twenties, do you wish you had done more things
"or focused more on one thing?"
- Great question, Yule.
In my mid-twenties, I focused on one thing.
I actually was completely all in on Wine Library.
There was nothing else.
I've said in the show before that I wish I went out
and hooked up with some more chicks and had fun some fun.
That was one thing I wish I did because I was so,
you wanna talk about being focused on one thing,
as a 20-year-old guy in my twenties,
it's actually uncomfortable how focused I was
on the hustle and building the infrastructure of my career.
You know, I think at some level when you look back,
you're always, you know, I'm equally,
this is where I'm like a paradox.
I'm equally completely pumped 'cause look how happy I am
and those were great times and I'm happy now,
like I would never change anything.
At the same token, you're always looking back,
and be, like, "Ah, damn, I could have this,
"I could have done that."
Yule, I'm pretty happy with the way things have played out.
I don't like to play Monday morning quarterback
with my life,
but I think it served me well.
I learned real foundational skills of how to run a company.
It's why I'm hyper focused and why I'm capable now
to run a company while doing a couple more things
'cause I know what it takes, which is serious focus,
but once in a while, you jump in into a show
when you didn't have to.
And so that's where I'm at with that.
Thanks for the question, Yule.
- [Voiceover] Sam asks:
"You always say that people pay for services that give time.
"What area needs a timesaving business like an Uber?"
- Sam, I don't know all of them.
For example, I would absolutely pay
for my clone to do this show right now
so I could be in the meeting
that I really have to be in, right?
Obviously that's a little farfetched and a little faraway,
but I think there's a ton of things.
I think I would pay a lot of money right now
to have somebody on demand do certain things
for my grandma in her retirement home, right?
Picking up my cleaners.
Obviously there's the Postmates
and people that are saving time, but I actually think,
I got a good one for you.
I'm gonna go deep here a little bit,
even though I'm a little bit of a rush
and I clearly am talking a little faster than normal,
so all of you,
so for all of you that are listening to this on 2x speed,
let's 4x this shit, here we go.
When Facebook really hit and MySpace was still leading,
like kind of leader,
everybody started creating niche social networks, right?
Niche social networks.
I would have invested in the baseball social network,
the gardening social network,
the Goth museum social network, like,
I'm kidding.
I really, really,
the niches were happening, right?
What it turned out to be, hindsight,
was we only needed one social network.
I actually think the reverse is gonna happen
for the timesaving economy.
Meaning, there's Postmates
and there was all these kind of, like, "We do everything."
I actually think this is gonna be a space
where people win on niching out.
So, like, a dry cleaner pickup thing.
Shyp, S-H-Y-P, I'm obsessed with.
We got a little money in
in our last fund disclosure for Shyp,
no, not a lot, but boy, do I love them
because nobody wants to go to the post office,
so I think that's an incredible one.
You know, I think there's,
look, I'll give you one, like, "I don't wanna go shopping,"
like, "Come to me here at Vayner.
"Let me put on some shoes and pants real fast,
"five minutes, and I'm out. I will buy so much more."
So, personal shopping coming here, big one.
There's Instacart, so there's food.
Literally, anything you do, any, like,
Question of the Day.
List two things that you do that you hate doing.
That's in play.
'Cause you hate doing it
because you'd rather be doing something else
and that's where the time arbitrage is
and so, you know, gardening, hanging pictures in your house,
like, just everything.
Just everything is gonna be arbed.
Anything a human doesn't want to do is in play.
I'm trying to think of one more good example.
Anybody got one that popped to their mind?
- [Staphon] Laundry.
- [Gary] No, but laundry's- - They'd come in and hit it.
- No. No, no. Get back to here. Staphon, no, no,
There's nothing that's a singular app right now
that literally you press a button
and you give somebody a bag, like,
how about you don't even put a bag?
How about they walk into your house and take your pile?
Because we're living in a more open society
where trust is a real play.
We're letting people stay in our home.
Wait a minute. You're telling me
that somebody wouldn't leave their door open and let,
and just put a pile of, this is what I would do.
Put a pile of clothes in the front
and somebody could come with a key and get it
in a world where Airbnb,
you're letting people stay in your home?
Trust is on the rise, my friends,
'cause transparency is on the rise.
Getting harder to hide and do the wrong thing.
Very, very interesting times.
- [India] Kobi. - Kobi.
The Kobi? - [India] I don't think so.
- Okay. Kobi, where you at?
- So, is it okay to ask a question?
- DRock, that was a bad,
yeah, there was no reason to go to India there.
Misplay by you.
Can I have a Misplay DRock logo? (laughter)
DRock Misplay. DRock Misplay. All right.
- [Voiceover] Kobi asks:
"Is it okay for celebs to promote products on Instagram
"without telling their audience they get paid for it?"
- No. And I'm sure it can happen.
You know, like, listen, we invest in so many things.
I'm always scared, like, talking about products
and apps that we're in.
I'm like, "Ah."
Shyp right now, right?
But is it okay? Absolutely not.
Like, why in the world would that be okay?
India?
Like I don't see any- - [India] Why put it
on the show. - I don't see,
yeah, I wanted to put it on the show.
because I wanna put the line in the sand, like,
'cause people, "Oh, I know why they put it in the show,"
'cause people, like, "Hey, this Pinterest
"pay Gary to say it's good,"
I mean, are you crazy?
Like, I made, like, I have--
You know how much money I have tied up in Twitter
as I sit here on every show saying it's crap,
it's losing, it's getting worse?
Like, your word is always your most valuable asset
and celebrities that think they can trick their fans
are gonna be in for a rude awakening
in the long tail of their career.
It's an insane play. It has no value,
It's stupid. It happen,
like, look, I try to disclose our investments all the time.
Of course you are human, something you have,
but knowingly non-disclose and be like, "This is great"
and, "No," like that's insanity. Insanity.
So also probably to be massively illegal
as like the laws catch up to full disclosure
and things of that nature, how about that part?
So no, I don't think it's okay.
- [India] From Mike Stelzner.
- Oh, Mike. Yeah, Social Media Examiner.
- Hey, Gary, Mike Stelzner of Social Media Examiner.
My question for you is podcast versus video.
- Yeah.
- Which one has been more effective for you?
I know that you have a video show
and you also have an Ask Gary podcast
and I'm just curious which one has been more effective?
Which one has more listeners?
If you're recommending that somebody get started,
should they do the video?
Should they do the podcast?
Should they do both?
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
- Thanks, Mike.
Videos been more effective for me
because this is a video first show
and then the podcast is just a transcribe for this:
psst, psst.
So, you know, obviously for this show, it's been video.
So many of the people are winning more on podcast
because they, either not doing the video
or they're not as good at video.
I think I'm better in video than podcast form.
I'm also making the format for this.
Obviously if I made this for audio,
I would have a different play.
I did Wine & Web on SIRIUS for nine months
where that was made for audio
and it was a different show, different format.
I interviewed people.
Obviously that's what so much
of the podcast right now are really, if you think about it,
and I don't want to be disrespectful to podcast.
I have big ups for all the podcasts.
I wanna be on them when I'm promoting stuff,
so I don't wanna get into dirty territory here
but these podcasts are completely reliant on guests.
Like, how do you keep it fresh otherwise, right?
You know, I'm,
so I'm proud of being able to keep it fresh,
one-man show kind of thing.
Well, obviously you characters.
And so I think that,
for me, it's been video.
I think that the context
and the format that you're creating for matters.
So, I think podcast that are filming themselves
doing the podcast and there's video
won't do as well on video 'cause that's secondary.
Here, audio is secondary.
But, so that's it, that's the net result, Mike.
But I think the right platform
is the right platform for you.
I think that I have the charisma and the antics
and the control of the camera that very few have,
which is why I've had two successful video shows
and so I think I'm an anomaly there
and I'm gonna milk that because that has extraordinary value
but there's plenty of other people who crush it
'cause their voice is deep.
My voice stinks.
I mean, think about how many great voices there are.
And so, like, you know, if you're rolling deep,
you're gonna do some stuff,
so I think you got to pick your medium
and that's the same with social network.
So you're better at Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook,
gotta find that and you gotta respect
the context of the platform.
- [Voiceover] Sean asks:
Will desktop exist in 20 years?
- Are we talking desktop computers, you think, right?
Are we including this artifact?
- [India] Yeah. - Yes, this?
- [India] I think so.
- I do, you know, it's in 20 years.
I mean, you know, I really wanna believe
that we'll be, like, working on, everything is smart.
Definitely not the way we think about it now,
like, this is an artifact.
I mean, I didn't think that laptops, weirdly, artifact.
I didn't even take my laptop home last night.
I was on my in-laws' home and going back there tonight
but I had a couple hours to work
and I was able to do it on my phone.
That was unheard of for me a year ago.
So if I'm evolving into that way,
I think the whole rest of the market will,
a hundred percent not the way we're at.
Will there be something in between this and an iPad?
I do think there's some screen needs,
but I'm not even sure if I'm thinking about it
right in a 20-year window.
That's so far out. I mean, is the screen just right here?
I mean, I think that's very feasible.
I'm confident saying the screen's right here on this table.
So, no, the answer is no, but I could be wrong.
I can't wait to watch this in 20 years
to A, remember how great I looked at this time of my life
and B, to see if I was right.
I asked the question of the day.
It was already done in there.
That was a good show. - [India] Yeah, it was good.
- I like this show.
Fast and furious.
Did I just get sued?
You keep asking questions.
I'll keep answering them.
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