This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

I'm really excited to be here for many different reasons.

I even asked to do more Q&A in this talk because I know you've been consuming a lot of content

and I think Q&A always brings out the most value.

So please, if there's anything I touch on or if there's anything that's been on your mind,

start thinking about that because we'll get to that in a little bit.

I think most of what excites me to be here is that at the end of the day, buying and selling stuff

still gets me going in a way that boggles my mind.

As many of you know, if you follow my content, going to Garage Sale is still the most exciting thing I can do in business.

Closing an 8-figure deal for VaynerMedia is nowhere on the same scale as going to a Garage Sale

and finding a $67 stuffed animal for a quarter.

I think about that a lot because I'm really saying it no bullshit.

It's really where my chemicals are and it's funny where I was in my career when the aggressive reselling on Amazon

and other platforms happened kind of put me in a place where I wasn't able to like fully go there

because I was so deep in operating multiple things at the time.

But one of the great regrets in my life is that I didn't have eBay and Amazon and other platforms as such

when I was in junior high in high school and had unlimited time because A, I wouldn't have graduated high school

and I think that's kind of cool and B, the amount of learnings that you get from scaled reselling

I think is pretty profound and has a huge impact.

I believe selling things on the internet, actual physical things, end-or working inside of a retail store

and interacting with tons of people from all shapes and sizes are really the two great training grounds

for a framework of a very successful business because there are many things that I focus on in HR operations, finance

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