Hey guys, it's Gary Vay, Nerd Chuck, and this is the GaryVee audio experience.

Mine goes back, first of all, thank you for having me.

Mine goes back a little bit further, so I was born in Russia, I came to the U.S., you

know, I couldn't speak English, went outside one day when we moved to Edison, New Jersey,

a bunch of kids throwing around on Nerf football, and literally I learned how to speak English

by watching the New York Jets play football.

So like, it's fun for me to be here, and like, it, it, it, somewhere around third or fourth

grade, after falling in love with the sport.

Unlike everybody in this room, somewhere around third or fourth grade, I realized that I

was more likely to buy the Jets, that to play for them.

And so really by the time I was in, like, if you go open up my fifth grade yearbook, everybody's

like occupation, I don't know why in the 80s, everybody wanted to be a fucking architect,

but everyone's like architect, architect, architect, architect.

And mine just says, owner of the New York Jets.

So 17 and 18, like, unlike a lot of people in this room as well, because you wouldn't have

gotten here, no matter how good you are.

I was a straight DNF student, right?

So education was the way out for us immigrants.

So it was crazy that I was so bad at school.

But by fifth grade, I was making $2,000,000 a weekend selling baseball cards.

I knew I was an entrepreneur from the get before it was popular and cool, like it is now.

And so at 17, 18, I was like, I think I'm a fuck about girls.

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