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This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

If you're not crushing it right now as an entrepreneur, you suck.

You got your perspective.

I just want to be happy. Don't you want to be happy?

I'm really gotten you where I am today. So there's one person in the entire world that I have to think for all my business hustle.

It is Gary V. and he's here right now. Gary, let's get on stage, baby.

So what is? Welcome to the summer. Thank you brother. Yeah. Yeah. Hello.

Hello, Vid Summit.

Thanks for having me. So just having a great sense of like the way people have been tweeting about the event and a good understanding of who's in the room.

I actually want to do quite a bit of Q&A today. So before I go any further, you guys said you had runners. I just want to get a sense.

Like where are the runners and like I might go into it like 10 or 15 minutes in. So Vid Summit crew be ready for me because I'm about to go into it.

And so just raise your hand if you have a question when I open that up. And I want to go questions because ultimately what I think is super important about when you produce content or when you speak.

I think the biggest actually is a great starting point. I genuinely believe that the farm majority of this room is not achieving what they want to achieve if they're not.

So if you're sitting here and you haven't amassed enough audience or revenue or whatever might be running through your mind.

The biggest thing that I've seen over the last 12 years that I've deeply been paying attention to creators. And just to give people context here, it was great to see Rob Sandy.

The CEO and founder of Vid IQ who is also the CEO and founder of a company called Vidler, which was the platform that I switched my wine show from.

Because I started a wine show on YouTube on February 21st, 2006, less than one year after YouTube came out.

99% of the videos on YouTube when I started were ripped off content from television or these very quick, you know, less than a minute kind of funny clips of like Mentos and a Coke bottle or things of that nature.

I sat down and did a 25 minute show. It was mainly kids and tech nerds. I did a 25 minute show on wine and me tasting wine.

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