- Gotta pee.
- What?
- You want to go pee real quick, now?
- I'm gonna hold it in.
- For real?
- That should be how you actually start
the episode that way.
♫ Me and Gary Vee up in the office
♫ Do rag flappin' walkin' through corporate
♫ Talks about all this shit been leveraged
♫ 1,800 texts and shout out the beverage
- [Gary] All right, let's do this again.
Now this time, we're gonna, oh there's AJ, AJV.
You gonna call?
AJ on a Vayner sports call.
That was exciting.
Always good to see my bro.
All right let's go downstairs.
Downstairs is where Pure Wow is.
If you're not subscribe to purwow.com right now.
Taylor, can you put the link right here for purewow.com?
That is where this is.
Hey!
- Hey, how are you?
- I'm super well, how are you? - Good.
- [Gary] Good.
- You're filming?
- [Gary] Yeah, I'm just doing a little filming.
Fuck it, why not.
Let's see what's going on down here.
That's Pure Wow over there.
Hey, Lisa Buckley!
- Hi!
- [Gary] How are you?
- Good, good, how are you?
- [Gary] Well?
I'm super well, hey dude.
Wow, you're hair is legit, I really like that.
- [Man] What's up, Gary?
- [Gary] What's up, man.
You guys like his hair?
(laughing)
I like it.
Hey, man, how are you?
- Hi. - Hi.
This is Pure Wow.
Just show you something really quick.
This Ryan Harwood when he was 30 pounds lighter,
but he's still a CEO, so it didn't affect him.
The extra weight didn't affect him and his ability
to be the CEO of Pure Wow.
We are, rare opportunity where DRock or Iris or Justin are
not around, and I'm in the office by myself.
So, let's get a little bit of a tour.
This is the Quiet Riot room, for all you '80s kids.
There's Quiet Riot.
That's it.
There's a couple, I don't know what the hell is going
in here now.
There used to be a big ass table here,
but something's going on.
Let's see what's going on here.
- Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit.
Hey! - That's right, Shirley.
Glad I caught that.
- [Shirley] Hey, great.
- Amazing, hey.
Make sure that's huge and everybody sees it.
- And I beat everybody.
I don't know.
♫ They say you don't gotta go home but you can't stay here
♫ And though I don't wanna be alone in the world out there
- Let me actually show you around a little bit,
since the first time you're here.
And then we'll come back.
♫ They say you don't gotta go home but you can't stay here
♫ And though I don't wanna be alone
- It's right here.
♫ In the world out there
♫ They say you don't gotta go home but you can't stay here
♫ And though I don't wanna be alone in the world out there
♫ They say you don't gotta go home
- I have one skill. - I like your approach.
- I really understand people.
In my will, in my active will, it says if the human
race figures out how to measure emotional intelligence
I wanna be scored.
That's how deeply I feel it came to me at a genius level,
but we don't talk about that.
The only people that make the move care about one thing.
Legacy.
If you do not care about legacy, you don't trade
on this moment in time.
Andy?
Babbin?
DRock?
I've got it figured out.
(upbeat piano music)
- Here, I'm gonna sit. - Hi!
- Sounds awesome.
The practicality of I'm gonna learn a craft
this summer is ludicrous, 'cause there's too many things
that are not in control of that being the situation,
hence why I think it's about the people, and plus,
in reality, anything you would learn in six or eight
or 10 weeks, you're gonna learn in the first 90 days
of a job.
At this point, where you're questioning everything
and so many of you are still in that place
where you're just checking the box of what the right
thing to do is, because that's how you've been trained
for the last 20 years of your life, this is exactly
the time to start debating it, for real.
Because you wake up and you're 32 real quick.
(laughing)
Right?
This is Eric Castner.
He helped me build Wine Library.
We were just sitting in a small cubical five seconds ago,
building this website, so it happens real quick.
- [Woman] How do you stay focused on your own path
and success without comparing yourself to other people
or not listening to anybody else's opinion of you?
- I don't know.
Combination of being an immigrant and having a ridiculously
big time mom.
Because I don't.
And it's so real.
I really wish you could have it, too.
God, confidence, right?
Just not wavering.
Just fundamentally not caring about what anybody else thinks
or feeling that anybody else is impacting me besides myself.
But that's what I will do to the end.
So.
Thanks, guys.
Thanks, everyone.
(clapping)
- How are you?
- Really good, how are you, my friend?
Real pleasure.
- I was the first black stand-up comedian in South Africa.
- [Gary] Really?
- About 19 years ago.
Almost every black comic from South Africa, I found them,
or I put them on my show.
I've got a show called The Blacks Only Comedy Show
which has been going on for about 13 years.
- [Gary] Incredible.
- So coming here now, it's a bit like--
- [Gary] It's fun, I get--
- I can just book a theater, but then, I'm not gonna be
part of the system--
- [Gary] I got it, I got it.
- I kinda need to get into that--
- [Gary] Social.
- Yeah.
- Fast. - Yeah.
- You know what you need to do?
You need to call in every favor.
If you take a picture every single goddamn day,
with some comedian who has 10,000, 50,000, 100,000,
40,000, five million, 100,000, a million.
If you just do it everyday, it will matter.
And then, if you, in between that, make good content,
you're on your way.
And that part comes easy to you, 'cause you're
a successful comedian.
(hip hop music)
- Thanks for making happen.
I mean I would've done anything.
Thanks, man. - No doubt.
- Real pleasure. - Thank you so much.
- Let's stay in touch.
DM me anytime.
- [Man] This is the fire from (mumbling).
- Love it.
Hi.
- Hi, I'm Jordan, nice to meet you.
- Jordan, I'm Gary, nice to meet you.
- Hey Gary.
Good to see you. - Good to see you again.
How are you? - I've heard so much
about you. - I'm good, man.
- Good man.
- The coolest thing about your impact on the world right now
and I said it in the email is that here's a guy,
23 years of school, three graduate degree, right?
Orthodontist.
As pro-school as there is out there, telling his daughter
when she comes back from a week-long program in Louisville
to figure out what your future is, she somebody speak
about social media branding, and I say to her,
if social media branding is what you want,
and that's where you wanna go, intern.
Go somewhere and learn the business.
Don't go to college.
And she's fighting me, I wanna go to college.
And I'm like, you're not going to college.
(laughing)
- It's like this bizarro world.
She's like, Dad, college is fun.
- Yes, that's what I said.
- She's like I want a sorority.
So, I'm like, I'm gonna go find a bunch of good looking
girls, pay them money to take you--
- To hang out?
I love it.
- That's like a hashtag, like the Gary Vee affect.
- But you know what's funny about that, or she could do
college the way I did, which is actually understand
that truth, have fun in her sorority, what have you,
but in the time that would've been study hours,
hone her craft.
She could kind of go to college and, there's a version,
you've gotta go to a shitty enough college, this is
just the truth, where you can actually have a job,
and have college life.
Like some colleges will kick you outta school, right?
Some won't.
I went there.
(laughing)
Like I literally went to four classes in my life.
- So, the key is she needs to go to a shitty enough college.
- Shitty enough college that you can still get
the college experience, but you have eight hours
a day to actually work on the, you could have four years
of getting great at social by literally working.
If you go to Ohio State, working at some Columbus, Ohio,
small agency, like nine to five, should be going to class.
Now, Ohio State will probably kick you out, but this is
literally my thesis on this.
- This is like one of those millions of conversations
that now you've created in homes that didn't exist
before you-- - I get it, man.
I get it.
- It was weird, I never though my dad would say--
- [Gary] You were like, what are you talking about, Dad.
- And I was a crappy student.
- [Gary] And where are you, now?
Like a sophomore, junior?
Where are you in high school?
- I'm gonna be a senior. - You're gonna be a senior?
- Yeah.
♫ I'm gonna be a legend
♫ I'm gonna be a Jonny to your daddy
♫ Outside news
♫ Ordinary people staying going going crazy
♫ For an outlier
♫ I'm gonna kiss ya like you busy missy
♫ Be my cherry putting out fires
♫ See, I ain't never running from a rebel
♫ Only if I got my cramp under
♫ Minor is my word
♫ My bark is my bite, girl
♫ My co-world, my lips, girl
♫ Love your curl, love your words
♫ Seein' as I'm leaving now or later
♫ Love me longer, longer for you my dear
♫ Bein' we believin', I'm lay awakin'
♫ Even when I didn't, baby I swear
- Bottom line is we've really figured it out.
Like I really know what to do.
You could become unbelievably recognized every time
you walk around Portland, in a way that would stun you.
I don't know what else to say.
It's basically, think of it more like Lucille Ball
and Bob Hope, when radio went to television,
the world still thought a radio star was bigger
than a television star, but it wasn't true.
And it took about a decade for people to be like fuck.
That's basically.
Logan and Jake Paul are way more famous to anybody
under 25 than virtually every other person you can name.
That's it.
- You think about it?
I just saw a headline said one piece of content can change
it all, no seriously.
Tim Ferris wrote one book that literally launched
the entire career.
You've got two or three videos--
- Even better, bro, even better, bro, to your point,
that keynote I gave at the Javits Center at Web 2.0,
then went on YouTube on TED Talk, changed my career.
- Yeah.
- Led to Crush It.
You know, it's one piece of content.
But if you have brand equity, but if you have brand equity,
you will be fine.
There is never a bad time when you believe,
when you work hard and when you know what you're doing.
But you have to do, this is where it's crucial,
you have to do what you love, because let
me tell you something.
It gets tough, but if you love it, you will win.
The only way to succeed now is to be completely transparent.
Completely.
Everything is exposed, everything you do.
So, your legacy is your ultimate life.
It's all you've got, and you can build so much on that.
When you have brand equity, anything can happen.
Written word, audio, video, pictures.
Four forms of communication have the ability to do 'em all.
I mean, it's the best job on earth.
It's literally what every single 14 year old on earth wants
to either be a YouTube star or an influencer.
Like why wouldn't you live your life and make money?
These are fuckin' hot!
I have so many cool sneaks.
Who's a 10 1/2 around here?
Who?
(mumbling)
You are?
(rustling and chatting)
I don't think I'll wear these.
You want these?
Bang.
You're a 10 1/2?
- [Man] No.
- What are you big, you a 12?
Yeah, I got it, I nailed it, I nailed it.
I'm good at guessing people's shoe size.
That's a random skill that people don't realize I have.
Oh, so you're really trying to be a winner?
- Yes.
- I'm proud of you, man.
- So you go in here--
- This is fuckin' rad.
So, why don't we take it, don't spend the money so fast.
For example, that, we should take two interns,
literally just DM every single fuckin' Facebook
culture page and pay them just to share it.
- Yeah.
- What need to do is replicate something, starting
with Vayner, this is back to my intern idea.
We need to have a slush fund of people.
The way I roll, the right model is there's five
guys and girls on our team that actually don't have
anything to do other than the thing of the moment
until I take them off the thing of the moment.
Like right now, if I had four people, think about who
they have to be.
They have to be more of our cloth, which is,
they have to be completely, utterly not fancy
and have to be willing to eat shit and be like,
for example, back in the day, when me and AJ launched
prelees dress me, the search engine, the tshirt
search engine, the best thing I did, the thing I was
most fun was staying up to five in the morning DMing
people or whatever that was at the time.
Email blogs randomly.
I think it's cool to now, I'm gonna weirdly start sending,
once Z's up to date, Tyler's gonna, I think it's,
and I don't care who does it...
To me, nothing's smarter right now than spending
15 hours messaging every Facebook that has a million
followers that's a culture page and be like hey,
we have a video we'd like you to share.
How much?
Control C, Control V, listen to your favorite fuckin'
album 50, like I can't wait for my vacation in August
to do that.
I just wanna remind you guys that that's probably why
my Instagram and podcast work, 'cause I went
on vacation, did that a little bit and was like
this is what we.
We need to figure out how to hire and how to frame up
for people to realize that's the best thing to do,
not oh, wait a minute, I'm a film maker or I'm a
business development, or like you know what I mean?
We need unbelievable amounts of humility
to get done the kind of things I most believe in,
'cause what I most believe in is all these people right now,
I just want to basically DM people on Facebook.
This is Gary Vay-ner-chuk, and this is episode 260
of the Ask Gary Vee Show.
And I'm super fired up.
All right, Linda, tell everybody who you are.
- [Linda] All right, the two cents.
Here's the two cents. - Three cents.
- Three cents, okay. - Legends get three cents.
- Okay, nobody has hosted more Sports Centers than me
on ESPN. - Okay, hold on.
Let's just say that one more time.
- All right, nobody, male or female, has hosted more
Sports Centers on ESPN than me, Linda Cohn.
All right.
- Thank you so much. - All right, Gary.
- You keep asking question, we'll keep answering them.
- [Linda] Awesome.
- On this episode, LFC stops by!
You have a good day?
- Oh, hell yeah.
- [Man] An hour and a half might work.
- Bye. - Bye, Gary.
- Good?
- [Man] Good, Gary!
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