This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Because we're gonna be legends!

Hey everybody!

I'm really excited to be here. Thank you so much.

We have a lot of time together, which is amazing, and so I will take full advantage of that.

To be very honest, I want to get into the Q&A part and start throwing this out

to you guys to ask questions. So I'm gonna try to get to that as quickly as possible.

Because I think for me, when I speak and when I think is allowed me to have a nice speaking career,

as I'm obsessed with bringing as much value to the audience as possible,

my origin story of Belarus and lemonade stands in baseball cards

is something that you can see on YouTube over and over and over again.

And as I continue through my career of speaking, I want to do less of that

and to be very frank, the reason I wrote a book called Ask Gary V

is it's my great ambition to build enough brand where I could come to an environment like this

and just go right into Q&A because at the end of the day, I think that's where the biggest value happens in a keynote.

And so what I'll do because I'm gonna assume some of you and many of you may not know who I am,

I'll try to at least deliver on the promise of giving a keynote.

But please rest assured that I'm ready to go into Q&A as soon as you guys are.

So look, I think the thing that regardless if you're a B2B or B2C marketer,

regardless if you're starting on your first day or you've got a hundred million dollar company,

I think the thing that will really be important for us to chat about first

is the thing that we're all connected by, which is my obsession with attention.

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