Building An Agency, Speaking and Silicon Valley | An Interview With Saxis.DK
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This interview that I did while in Denmark brings some insight to topics that I don't brush on all that often, starting out with my views on Silicon Valley and how to get into that area. We the pivot to chatting about what it was like building Vaynermedia, and a few things that I wish I had done differently while building the company - some really cool insight here. We also chop it up talking about the motivational speaking I do, and what it means to me. Some cool topics covered here, hope you enjoy !!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Gary V. Audio Experience. |
| 0:04.0 | Because we're gonna be legends! |
| 0:07.0 | From the game, there are chances! |
| 0:11.0 | Gary? |
| 0:12.0 | Yes. |
| 0:13.0 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:14.0 | Thank you, Abigail. |
| 0:15.0 | From Emil, that decay was just the biggest entrepreneurial online platform in Denmark. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm aware. |
| 0:21.0 | And we're up with Denmark. |
| 0:23.0 | So we wanted to ask you, |
| 0:26.0 | we have some success stories from Denmark coming to USA and Silicon Valley like |
| 0:32.0 | Sandisk and Plande and Trust Pile and stuff like that. |
| 0:36.0 | So many entrepreneurs out there sitting having this dream of going to US and Silicon Valley and the whole VC dream, you know, over there. |
| 0:46.0 | So what would be your advice to other Danish entrepreneurs wanting to go over there? |
| 0:51.0 | What does it take to... |
| 0:53.0 | First of all, and I would say this if we were talking about entrepreneurs in Boston or Florida. |
| 0:59.0 | Silicon Valley has done an incredible job branding itself. |
| 1:03.0 | The fact that they're, you know, young girls and guys in Denmark are now dreaming to go pitch at VC in Silicon Valley makes me laugh. |
| 1:11.0 | I think it's to the detriment. |
| 1:13.0 | I genuinely believe that 95% of the people, 97% of the people who are watching right now that have that ambition will lose because of that ambition. |
| 1:22.0 | Because when you're pandering to venture capital in Silicon Valley, in today's day and age, |
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