How to Make the Most of Your Internship | 2016 Fireside Chat with VaynerMedia Interns
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Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
What's up podcast. Congratulations to everyone who recently graduated or is finishing up school shortly. I wanted to bring back this fireside chat with a group of VaynerMedia interns to give you all some insight into how I think you can make the most of your summer internship. Any questions at all please hit me up on twitter @GaryVee and have the best week
If you’ve been to 4Ds and have any feedback for this community tweet me @garyvee and for more info on the program email nick@thesashagroup.com with the month you’d like to attend.
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode Gary talks to VaynerMedia interns about work ethic starting their careers after graduation and more. |
| 0:08.0 | Tweak Gary, what you thought about this at GaryVee on Twitter, that's at GaryVee on Twitter. Hope you enjoy. |
| 0:14.0 | My question is what was the most important year of your life? |
| 0:20.0 | I think the most important year of my life was the first one because I think... |
| 0:32.0 | Oh and business. I would say the first one. I had unbelievable bravado going into my dad's liquor store. |
| 0:44.0 | I had been working in it since I was 14 so I had a lot of experience. I was a completely shit student and my whole claim was, you know, I'm a shit student but I'm going to be more successful than all of you when I talk to my friends. |
| 0:58.0 | And so I really talked a lot of shit. And so that first year I just remember being obsessed. |
| 1:08.0 | It's like this is really fun to tell you guys because it's basically around the same age. I don't know if you can imagine, maybe you can depending on how you roll. |
| 1:16.0 | The day I ended school I drove from Boston to New Jersey and worked in the liquor store that night and basically didn't stop for seven years but let's say didn't stop in that first year. |
| 1:29.0 | And then genuinely again at this young up in age no Jersey Shore, no dating, no hanging out, no whiff of ball, no nothing. |
| 1:39.0 | 7 a.m. liquor store, 11 p.m. leave every day, seven days a week, sleep on Sunday because it was a half a day, right? |
| 1:48.0 | And like just fucking pot committed all in and what happened was at the end of that year the business went from three to 10 million in the first year. |
| 1:57.0 | Which is if any of you come from a family business or it's not super hard to understand when you don't come from a whole whole lot that is such a big difference. |
| 2:06.0 | That is such a wait a minute, that is such a wait a minute. I had to buy my car at a garage sale. AJ got a new Lexus, what the fuck? |
| 2:13.0 | You know like it was such a game changer. So it was the first year because I think I had a lot of pent up bravado but I'm sure I had, I'm trying to recall, I'm sure I had, I definitely had, I definitely had my 1% of doubt. |
| 2:28.0 | Well what if I'm just full of shit, what if I'm better, what if I'm talking too much shit, like what's going to happen? Having that first year under my belt and having such a crazy success. |
| 2:37.0 | It allowed, I mean you know it's been on since then right, like it hasn't been very difficult to like believe in myself since. |
| 2:46.0 | Alright so what do you say? How are you guys, how are you guys hearing this? Okay, this is probably better. You might get some weird chin action but don't look. |
| 2:57.0 | Go ahead. Would you say that you're upraising and your relationship to your family is a whole sort of correlates to your relationship with your employees and how you own your business? |
| 3:07.0 | I absolutely, easily with no hesitation will tell you right now that my mom has a bigger impact than this culture than anybody besides me. 100%. |
| 3:18.0 | The way I was parented and obviously the DNA that I think I took from her. Yes and very weirdly and you know I would tell you that I saw my dad do a lot of things I don't believe in. |
| 3:31.0 | You know as a Soviet businessman, you know it's, you know I was mad at him as a kid now I understand it much better. |
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