Ilana Golan x GaryVee: Building a $300M Business the Hard Way

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, GaryVee delivers a direct message to entrepreneurs, side-hustlers, and anyone chasing their "big idea."

Most people don’t fail because of a bad plan, they fail because they don’t follow through.

This is a raw reminder that business is hard, and the sooner you embrace that, the faster you move forward.

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0:00.0	I see a lot of people making great plans,
0:02.1	being pretty intentional, where I see so much breaking down,
0:06.2	is people do not have the grit
0:08.1	to execute against their ambitions.
0:10.3	Stop being full of shit is what I'm basically saying.
0:13.3	Like I'm, I'm really trying to get there.
0:15.9	Like, don't say that this is your, you know, like,
0:19.4	this lady, she's like, mama, this is mama's money-making thing. And she's like a friend of mine, and like three weeks later, I checked, I like could see like, I was like, what happened to mama, make, like, she's like, oh, it's hard. I'm like, no shit, it's hard. Like, what do you, like, I just think that people are wildly entitled.
0:41.1	Like if we're going to be really focused on it.
0:43.5	Like when I hear your energy, I'm like,
0:45.6	be thoughtful of, like, right?
0:49.0	You must know that you are signing up for hard.
0:50.1	Oh, yeah.
0:53.3	Like, I don't understand how people understand.
0:53.9	It's hard. Like, this concept of easy. And it people understand. It's hard.
0:56.4	Like this concept of easy.
0:57.4	And it's beautiful.
0:59.1	It's hard and it's beautiful.
0:59.8	It's beyond.
1:04.9	Nothing feels better than when you accomplish something that was hard for you.
1:10.7	There's nothing that feels better than when you prove something to yourself, nothing.
1:12.1	It's like everyone's ultimate, whatever that is, run a marathon, you know, change a diaper,
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