How Esports Is on Its Way To Becoming One of the Biggest Sports in the World

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is a GaryVee TV classic. For a lot of people, esports is already a huge part of their lives and is in no question about its popularity of viability as a form of competition and entertainment. For many others, however, the concept of esports is still novel and confusing. This video shows where Gary currently stands on the esports debate and why he believes it has the potential to be more popular than any currently relevant sport today. Enjoy! Let me know what you thought.

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0:00.0	This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.
0:04.0	What are your thoughts on esports as an industry?
0:09.0	This is from the money.
0:10.0	I'm extremely bullish on it, our money.
0:13.0	Like, outrageously bullish on it.
0:15.0	I think it's going to be, you know, for, it will be the second biggest sport in this country in 25 years.
0:21.0	Like I genuinely believe that.
0:23.0	I just think esports is much bigger than people think.
0:26.0	I hate when regular sports fans make fun of esports.
0:29.0	So like Gary, you know, like I'll go to a football game.
0:32.0	I'm a big American football fan as mentioned in my intro.
0:35.0	Gary, what's his bull, you know, special old-timers, 53-year-old Joe.
0:38.0	Let's call him.
0:39.0	53-year-old Joe's like Gary, what's his bull shit?
0:41.0	This esports fucking stupid.
0:43.0	My kids sitting in his fucking liver, the four-night fuck.
0:46.0	I'm like, you're about to go in a stadium and watch men run into each other.
0:53.0	And if we said that 100 years ago, we would have been laughed at.
0:58.0	So, you know, people watch golf.
1:01.0	But like, it's a, by the way, I watch golf.
1:05.0	It's interesting.
1:06.0	But like, you watch somebody do a skill.
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