Entrepreneurs are the New Rappers

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Marketing, Business

4.8 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

It is INCREDIBLY difficult to build a successful consumer-facing app but we still live in a world where everyone thinks they can just start one. No matter what you're into in life, if you’re chasing the wrong things you’re going to lose. Period. You need to put your energy against the things that move you forward, not the things that are shiny in the moment. When I was starting my career, being an entrepreneur wasn’t cool. And sure it's cool now and I’m reaping the benefits but that doesn’t mean you can or should try and become an entrepreneur for those reasons.

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0:00.0	First and foremost, you have to know if you're good enough.
0:02.8	I mean, everybody here is starting consumer apps.
0:05.8	You know how hard that is?
0:07.4	Like, for every Instagram and Snapchat,
0:09.8	there are 100,000 failed apps per second being posted.
0:13.2	Like, consumers hard.
0:14.8	So, you know, the first day of the day, self-aware,
0:17.0	are you truly good enough to win?
0:19.4	Like, are you good enough to win?
0:20.9	Did you grow up selling stuff or thinking about business
0:24.3	or did this happen three years ago
0:26.4	because this is the new lifestyle
0:28.2	just like people wanted to become a rapper?
0:30.3	You know, seven years ago, because that was the lifestyle.
0:33.2	You know, listen, I got lucky.
0:35.1	Like, being a businessman wasn't cool.
0:37.4	I didn't see this.
0:38.4	I didn't think this was going to be...
0:39.6	Yeah, exactly.
0:40.8	For all the... how old are you?
0:42.8	When I was 19, the thought that being a businessman
0:45.6	would mean that people would want to stand and say,
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