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My First Million

How Gary Vee runs 7 businesses

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Get Sam & Shaan's CEO lessons in one guide: https://clickhubspot.com/ptcw Episode 826: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) chop it up with Gary Vee.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (2:40) Nick Dio, VP of friendships (6:47) How to invest $1M on yourself (10:06) being long term greedy (17:53) Gary breaks down his companies and revenue (21:43) day in the life of Gary v (26:19) breaking down the 15-minute meeting (29:07) eat shit and firefight (31:00) picking projects (32:31) 5-year bets gary is making (34:04) missed fat pitches (38:00) vetting shady people (42:55) Mimetic rivals — Links: • https://vaynersports.com/  • https://www.vaynerwatt.com/ • https://winelibrary.com/  • https://empathywines.com/  • https://resy.com/  • https://vcrgroup.com/ • https://vaynerx.com/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com  • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

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0:00.0

Well, this is going to be one of the highlights that I know from this meeting, this podcast. I love that I said meeting. This feels more like a business meeting. That's why you guys are successful. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. Gary, let me ask you a hard-hitting question. I've known you now for a few years, a while now.

0:22.7

Do you own a computer?

0:24.4

You know what's funny?

0:25.3

I did not own a computer for four or five years going into COVID.

0:32.6

So what year did you buy your first laptop?

0:35.5

I went full phone because I didn't work within Excel or any documentation,

0:41.2

and it was all email meetings, social.

0:44.5

So I think I stopped having a laptop in 15, went to 19 without one, but I've had one since.

0:53.9

You know those luxury brands where it's like quiet wealth or whatever where there's no label? We found the podcast version of this, which is that the richest guys who come on the pod, they don't know how to use a computer. They're like, assistant sets up a screen. They just show up. We had one guy try to share his screen and he was like, honestly, he's like, honestly, guys, this is, this is bad.

1:12.1

I don't know what, I don't even know what I'm doing.

1:14.1

We go, just click in Chrome.

1:15.2

He goes, what's Chrome?

1:16.4

He didn't even know what Google Chrome was.

1:18.4

I don't think I have one of those.

1:20.5

It's ironic.

1:21.4

I would actually, you know, it's so crazy to think of evolution.

1:24.0

So I went through those four years, it was the best, like not having a laptop at the airport. Like, it was the best. And now it's completely the opposite, right? Like, my OpenClaw computer is like the most important thing in my life, right? It's just so fascinating. Wait, what are you doing with OpenClaw, Gary? I mean, lots of things. I think with OpenClawe specifically, I'm using it as a capture all for all information.

1:44.9

What's been really fascinating, even with three admins and chief of staff and all this,

1:49.3

I'm still like, I never got there, like some of my friends where their chief of staff is with them in every meeting.

1:56.1

So there'd be like so much context lost, right?

1:58.9

Like in a meeting, so much opportunity missed.

2:01.9

So one of the first things I've done with OpenClaw is it might even happen here.

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