This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

It's really fun to be back on stage.

I'm just starting to get back on the road.

I think this is my fourth talk since COVID.

So, really excited to be with you.

And super excited to be with you because when I think about this industry and the opportunities within it,

what's going on in the marketplace right now in most parts of the country,

and then for me, what's kind of going on at a global level with human beings

and the relationship with technology and the opportunities that exist.

It's interesting to be here because obviously this brand is more aggressive than so many other entities

from a technology standpoint in this space, which really kind of connects for me

because my background really does sit in the cross-sections of technology or personal brand,

small business, you know, regional business.

So, it was giving a lot of thought to what I wanted to cover in this talk today.

And I think I'm going to break it down into a couple of places.

And now with a six book coming out, it was supposed to be out yesterday,

but some of you might have saw I did an NFT marketing campaign for this book,

and we sold 1.2 million copies. So, they couldn't print them fast enough,

so we pushed it two weeks. Thank you.

That wasn't a humble brag. I didn't need the clouds, but you're very sweet.

It was more of setting up the context of what I just wrote about in 12 and a half,

and it's actually perfect. This is luck.

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