This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

I actually believe the statement I'm about to make.

I think that I love the journey and the game of entrepreneurship so much that I have subconsciously sabotaged my financial upside

to make sure I can play this a little longer because I fear if the numbers keep getting too big

eventually it will take the fun out of it.

Just because you didn't grow up with a trust fund, just because you don't live in Silicon Valley.

The market doesn't care. If you're good enough you will win.

And if you sit around and ponder, well if I didn't live here or if my mom wasn't an alcoholic

or if I just learned about this earlier or if I'd been following this person earlier

or if I wasn't born a woman or if I wasn't born a minority.

If you sit and do that you are losing.

You're not wrong.

It's just that business and marketing and all this doesn't care.

And so I think we need to start having much deeper, much more serious conversations of practicality.

It's fun and I love this space the most.

But I loved it long before it was sexy.

I loved it long before people wanted to take selfies with me.

I loved it long before athletes and celebrities and rappers wanted to be entrepreneurs.

I loved it long before that. It was my destiny. It was who I was. It was how I was wired.

It was the only thing I knew.

That's why the four year old me ripped flowers out of yards and sold it.

I didn't jump on this because it's cool now and it makes me money and girls.

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