Lonely At The Top | A Gary Vaynerchuk Original

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Here's some special early access for my podcast listeners !! Later today we're releasing the short film to this audio and it's a message everybody needs to hear. Just because entrepreneurship is hot right now doesn't mean it's glamorous or for everybody. The truth is that it's hard and IT'S LONELY. When you're the head there's no blaming anybody else. When the buck stops with you, everything that's broken is your fault. I put out fires for a living. I'm a firefighter. Period. So if you're out there and you want to be a CEO or entrepreneur, you need to be ready to take all the pain that comes with it.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it's Gary Vay, Nerd Chuck, and this is the GaryVee audio experience.
0:11.0	Listen, when you're an entrepreneur, it's stressful, it's lonely.
0:13.0	It is. Like, everything is on me. Right? Like, everything that's broken at VaynerMedia, my fault.
0:18.0	Fuck!
0:19.0	The ones who are successful have this gutter, dirt, morph ethic about them.
0:26.0	It's really almost lonely. If I can have the demeanor of a king and queen, you have king and queen values, but you have to work like a fucking peasant.
0:38.0	Session, you need to talk to the industry.
0:40.0	You know how many people have committed suicide in a tech startup community in the last five years, and there's not a peep about it?
0:46.0	Entrepreneurship is on the pedestal, and everybody thinks it's easy.
0:49.0	It's on you. There's no blaming anybody.
0:51.0	If this wins, you. If this loses, you. That's lonely as fuck.
0:56.0	I have pain. There's always problems. When I'm in pain, I go to sleep for five minutes, and I wake up the next day, and I kiss the world.
1:07.0	When you're the CEO, when you are the founder, every single thing that happens in this company that's wrong is my fault.
1:13.0	Do you know how tough it is when you have nobody else to blame?
1:16.0	No, much fun it is for you to blame the person that's above you.
1:19.0	Oh, it's I heart radio's fault. Oh, it's it's Piedmont's fault. It's my boss's fault. That's fun.
1:24.0	It's very tough to be at the top of something, even when it's going great.
1:35.0	It is lonely at the top. It's only my responsibility. It's only my singular responsibility.
1:39.0	At the end of the day, the buck stops with me, and I have to.
1:42.0	With every ounce of my soul, try to deploy my north star to my employees.
1:56.0	It's fun, and I love this space the most. I loved it long before athletes and celebrities, and rappers wanted to be entrepreneurs.
2:03.0	It was my destiny. It was who I was. It was how I was wired. It was the only thing I knew.
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