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

Thank you so much. I'm very, very excited to be here this afternoon. Honestly, to be very blunt,

I'm looking forward to getting into this part very quickly because I, this is the first time I'm speaking in Bucharest

and I don't want to miss the opportunity to answer your one-on-one questions. We obviously live in a 2017-2018 world

where a lot of this content is stuff that you can find online, but our opportunity to engage with each other

and allow me to answer the questions one-on-one is a rarity, so I want to take advantage of that.

So before I go into it and to figure out how quickly I want to go into Q&A, by show of hands, how many people here don't know much about me

and don't know much about my spiel, raise your hands. Okay, that hurts.

Fair enough, but that's what I thought. Okay, I'll give you the backdrop. I apologize for some of my fans here that have heard this first 10 minutes,

but I want to frame up the context for the majority of you, and then we'll go into the state of the union, and then I'd love to go into Q&A.

I was born, you know, it's fun as an American, I was born much closer to here than where I live now.

I was born in Belarus and Babrusk, not too far away. I left the former Soviet Union in 1978 and moved to Queens, New York in the States.

I grew up in a very immigrant upbringing, 678 family members in a studio apartment in Queens, New York.

It was a tough time in the U.S. economy. My dad did construction in Russia and wasn't able to get any jobs like that in the U.S.

So the first solid paying job he was able to get was a $2 an hour job being a stockboy in a liquor store in New Jersey.

He eventually ascended to being the manager of that store, and we moved to Edison, New Jersey when I was five, six years old.

I am as pure bread of an entrepreneur as you will find, basically since the time I was four or five, six years old, the most interesting thing to me in the world was selling stuff to people.

When I was five, six, I had three, four, five lemonade stands in New Jersey and would spend my summer days washing cars, ripping people's flowers out of their yard and selling it back to them.

Anything to make a buck, finding random things in my friends' homes and selling it, selling, selling, selling, selling.

When my, you know, it's funny immigrants have a very good strategy. They save all their money, spend none of it, and eventually buy something.

And that's what my family did for the first seven, eight years of our lives in the U.S.

We lived very humbly, and eventually my dad bought a small liquor store in Springfield, New Jersey.

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