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Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Gary Vaynerchuk - Built $500M VaynerMedia | Stop Blaming Everyone Else for Your Failures

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Self-improvement, Education, Business, How To

4.6326 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

➡️ Join 321,000 people who read my free weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.scottdclary.com ➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur and chairman of VaynerX, a communications holding company whose flagship agency, VaynerMedia, generates nearly $300 million in annual revenue serving Fortune 500 clients across offices in New York, LA, London, Singapore, and Mexico City. Gary's built his empire through a combination of agency equity, 90+ angel investments with 37 exits — including early bets on Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Venmo, Snapchat, and Coinbase — and ventures like Resy (sold to AmEx), Empathy Wines (sold to Constellation Brands), and VeeFriends. A five-time New York Times bestselling author, he remains one of the most recognizable voices in business media, producing daily content across every major platform to an audience of tens of millions. ➡️ Show Links https://www.instagram.com/garyvee/  https://x.com/garyvee/  https://www.youtube.com/garyvee  ➡️ Podcast Sponsors Hubspot - https://hubspot.com/   Huel - https://huel.com/scott (Code: scott) The Demand Decoded Podcast - https://www.blendb2b.com/demand-decoded  NetSuite - https://netsuite.com/scottclary/  Indeed - https://indeed.com/clary Framer - https://framer.com/design (Code: SuccessStory) LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/success Wix - https://wix.com/  Priori - https://priori.life/  Notion - https://notion.com/story  Mars Men - https://mengotomars.com/  Granola - https://www.granola.ai/success  BELAY - https://belaysolutions.com/scott  Gusto - https://gusto.com/successstory  ➡️ Talking Points 00:00 – Intro 01:23 – What Made Gary Vee 02:12 – Understanding Fear 09:30 – Fear vs Taking Action 19:59 – Sponsor Break 22:34 – Radical Self-Honesty 27:38 – The 2026 Gary 30:28 – Measuring Real Impact 31:42 – Gary’s Current Focus 34:49 – AI Influencers? 40:50 – Sponsor Break 42:43 – Mindset Over Tactics 47:27 – Stop Seeking Validation 56:02 – Is Social Media Good or Bad?

Transcript

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0:00.0

HubSpot is a success story partner.

0:01.7

Now, think about listening to this podcast right now.

0:04.1

You are probably multitasking.

0:05.5

You are probably catching maybe 70 to 80% of what I'm saying.

0:08.9

Now, flip that and imagine catching only 20%.

0:12.0

It's not a good use of your time.

0:14.3

That'd be insane, right?

0:15.3

But this is the reality for most businesses.

0:17.9

Most businesses only use 20% of their data. That's like reading a book with 80%

0:23.7

of the pages torn out. You are making decisions with a fraction of the picture. All the important

0:29.3

details that get buried in the call logs and the emails and the transcripts and the chat messages

0:33.7

and it's just floating around doing nothing for you unless you use HubSpot. Their customer

0:38.8

platform brings all that unstructured data together and turns it into insights that actually

0:44.0

help you grow your business because when you know more, you grow more. And when you're running a

0:48.6

business on 100% of your data instead of 20, the decisions get a lot easier. Visit HubSpot.com to get the full

0:55.8

picture today. People on the other side right now don't believe me because they view me as successful.

1:00.0

And they think everything coming out of my mouth is because I am successful. And I know the reason

1:03.8

I'm successful is... Gary Vaynerchuk, better known as Gary Vee, transformed his family's

1:10.3

wine business from a local shop into a $60 million e-commerce success and then redefined what it means to build a brand in the digital age.

1:18.2

He is a serial entrepreneur, a five-time New York Times bestselling author and the chairman of VaynerX.

1:23.8

I would argue that I did not use fear. I understood fear in a world where people currently are in their 50s, 60s, and 70s don't realize that truth is the reason I was able to get to where I got to emotionally, not financially.

1:38.2

He co-founded Vayner Media and hosts one of the top business podcasts on the planet. Love him or challenge him. One thing is undeniable. Gary doesn't just talk about the future. He builds it. Every single person listening right now, you're treadmilling, you're walking dog, you're in the car, you're like getting it. You're a bitch. Everything that is wrong in your life is your fault. Everyone here is capable. You could be a bitch and a complainer and a dweller and all your circle is a bunch of other bitches and complainers, and you can get out.

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