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The GaryVee Audio Experience

College or Entrepreneurship: Career Advice No One Tells You

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.818.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode of the podcast is a fireside chat Gary had with Terry T8 and the VeeFriends community in Japan, he shares his thoughts on community building, how to choose between entrepreneurship and going to college, important lessons thatparents should teach their kids, and much more! I hope you all enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you're an entrepreneur and you're a creative, it's not like being a doctor or a lawyer where you really need university.

0:06.2

But I think a lot of kids demonize university because a lot of entrepreneurs speak about it,

0:11.3

but it might be a wonderful thing for you and you're

0:13.5

still going to be plenty young to be able to do your things you just have to make a

0:16.8

personal decision first of all thank you very much for the warm welcome just

0:22.0

thank you.

0:25.0

Yeah.

0:26.0

Yeah.

0:28.0

You know, my story is very simple, not very complicated.

0:36.1

I was born in the USSR in 1975.

0:40.2

I came to America in 1978 as a young child.

0:44.8

Our family was, you know, struggling.

0:47.9

It was very hard to, you know, come over to the US at that time.

0:53.3

It's chopping a little bit.

0:55.7

And really, the American dream was very alive

1:01.7

and well during that era.

1:04.0

My father got a job in a liquor store

1:08.0

and worked his way up.

1:10.0

And I was very entrepreneurial.

1:15.1

Very early in my life, I realized I wanted to sell things,

1:19.4

not be a good student, which was very unpopular.

1:23.9

That was not the way the world was.

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