You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers.

Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory. You are here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that are going to help you actually execute on your dreams.

Alright, today's guest is one of the world's leading marketing experts and living proof that the American dream is alive and well, if you're willing to work your face off.

He was born in Belarus and the former Soviet Union didn't speak a word of English when he arrived, his entire extended family lived together in a tiny ass apartment in Queens, and as the foreign kid he was once bullied into drinking urine from a soda can.

He was a D and F student and pretty much everyone thought he would fail in life.

Despite all of that though, this guy not only refuses to complain about anything ever, he is wildly optimistic, upbeat and freakishly driven.

A born entrepreneur, he began by ripping flowers out of people's yards and selling them back to them.

He had an entire lemonade franchise system while he was still writing a big wheel and in his teens he was routinely making thousands of dollars a weekend selling baseball cards until his father forced him to go to work in the family business for $2 an hour.

But he didn't waste time whining about it, he just got to work and just at a college by being an early adopter of the internet.

He took his father's discount liquor store from being a local store doing $4 million a year in revenue to an internet phenomenon doing $45 million in revenue in just five years.

Now leveraging his unique ability to identify where consumer attention is going next, he founded the Pioneering Digital Agency VaynerMedia, which served some of the largest companies on the planet.

Along the way, he's also built a massive social following of his own that rings in at around $3.5 million devoted followers.

He is a people first kind of guy and you can see it in everything that he does from his employees to his fans and partnerships.

As such, he's greeted like a rock star, his business is growing crazy fast and he'll soon be starring in Apple's original series Planet of the Apps with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will I Am.

On top of all that, he's also a prolific angel investor and venture capitalist who was an early investor in such juggernauts as Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter and Uber.

So please, dearest of friends, help me in welcoming the four-time New York Times best-selling author and future owner of the New York Jets Gary Vaynerchuk.

Welcome to the show.

That was super impressive.

Thank you, sir. You're welcome.

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