This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Gary, fantastic. See you on Real Vision.

Same, my friend. Thank you.

There's a lot to talk about.

Firstly, just for some people, just a bit of your background will be fantastic.

How you got to where you are now, and then we'll dig into what you're really up to now and where we're going.

You know, very classic, you know, kind of Americana, immigrant, Eastern European story,

family, just from Belarus and the Soviet, in the former Soviet Union.

We immigrated here in the late 70s, 78, December of 78, late before the 79.

Very tough kind of first three, four, five years, you know, studio apartments and queens, you know, no cars walking five miles to Kmart.

You know, scrapping.

My sister was born in the States, the first year we were here. So it's just a very, you know, hard core upbringing East Coast, Queens, Dover, and then Edison, New Jersey in 1982, where I really kind of,

you know, started by American journey, I would say,

lived there for the next eight years before I moved to another part of New Jersey.

My dad during that time went from being a stockboy in a liquor store to a store manager to eventually buying his own shop.

I had very much discovered who I was in at a city Jersey lemonade stands, baseball cards, shoveling snow, you know, just incredibly intuitive to entrepreneurship and selling and buying and working.

As fun for me to work, you know, shoveling snow and washing cars as it was to play sledding and playing football or baseball.

So got into my teenage years, started working my dad's liquor store all the time, because, you know, oldest son of a first generation immigrant family has a merchant fell in love with people collecting wine.

That was a big breakthrough for me that people actually collected wine the way I collected sports cards.

And that started a, you know, 20 year passion of mine to build a large business for my parents. I was incredibly affected by having a great mother and having a hard working father.

And I was just extremely grateful. And I wanted to give back. And I kind of knew in my late teens early 20s that I was talented in business. I thought it I knew it.

This is a very, you know, you know, this, this was a very different era than 90s, 80s.

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