This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Yeah, so you guys, I want to welcome to the stage, the CEO and creator of V friends and the chairman of VaynerX and VaynerMedia.

The one, the only Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary, how are you?

Well, my friend, thank you so much for that kind intro. It's great to see so many PFPs and avatars and names of people I see in my stream all the time.

Hey, everybody, hope everyone's really good.

Oh, yeah, thank you for taking the time. I know I speak for everybody, you know, but I think when you initially got involved in NFTs, I think it really, I think it leaked when your brother AJ posted the top pat as his profile picture.

And like people are like, oh, like we're, we're like jumping the shark. Like we're about to go mainstream.

And I mean, I remember personally, like when you started following me, I'm like, oh my God, I'm like, Gary's here, you know, and as somebody that has been following you and watching a lot of your videos online, I know like me starting my brand and my presence on social media had a lot to do with like following your videos and listening to the things you had to say about like finding your audience and, you know, just preaching what you want, what you believe in.

And, you know, I really have a lot of my success to think and I know a lot of people have can thank you for everything that you've been doing for the space.

That's that's ridiculously humbling. Thank you so much.

Yeah, no, and yeah, thank you. And, you know, I guess we'll take this opportunity. You know, no, I was just talking about it for a couple minutes before before you came on stage about your upcoming Christie's auction on October 1st.

Well, first of all, it doesn't happen without Noah. I'm incredibly focused on who I do things with. And I think I could speak for everybody on this call.

You know, there's a lot of listeners that could be hosting very big rooms themselves. Noah has done a very, very, very good job in being authentic to the space and allowing an establishment to feel authentic.

And it felt very comfortable for me to commit to a collab.

Not just because of the prestige and the incredible things that come along with doing a Christie's auction, but knows a huge factor of why I wanted to do it because I think he's authentic to it.

I want to thank him. You know, I do it. It's fucking crazy. What do you, what do you, you know, like, like, you know, it's insane. Like, I don't know what else to say. Like my, my parents, you know, spent, you know, decades building their life in America and living the American dream.

And, and, you know, as they got to a different status in their life, they, they were into antiquing and things that nature and Christie's was a brand that they couldn't even imagine, you know, like buying something from.

And for their son that they dragged from the former Soviet Union to now have his deals, which they are very familiar with because I did it as a kid to be sold physically.

You know, what's unique about the V friends auction is a lot of the incredible stuff, the art blocks, the curio cards, they're the NFTs.

V friends is the actual drawings, the art, which was a little unique about how I did V friends. It was, you know, I know people shit on my art.

And that it's a five year old and it's not real and it's not good. And, you know, but for me, it's from my heart, right?

Do you money? Like I drew it. Like I drew it. I didn't hire a designer. I didn't team up with a great designer from the space, which I could have done. It was important. You know, people, you know, we don't hear about Providence as much these days as we did six months ago.

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