Matt Higgins on Being a Shark Tank Investor & the Challenges of Scaling a Business | #AskGaryVee 297
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Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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SUPER super fired up about this #askgaryvee with my good friend, Matt Higgins. Matt's a guest Shark on Shark Tank this weekend, and I loved havning him come by to tell his story of how he went from from growing up in Bayside, Queens, NY to working for the mayor of NYC during one of New York's toughest times to becoming a successful investor and VC.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's me Gary. I just landed in Brisbane. I've been on this tour in Australia. |
| 0:03.8 | Big shout out to everybody who's listening to the podcast that came out to one of our four events at New Zealand. |
| 0:10.8 | Three events in Australia, one in New Zealand. But the reason I'm doing this pre-roll for today's |
| 0:15.2 | podcast is today's Friday's podcast, but more importantly, at noon Eastern time, |
| 0:21.2 | trash talk episode two comes out. If you haven't been paying attention to my social, |
| 0:26.0 | specifically Instagram stories, I've become unbelievably obsessed with the flip life so much so |
| 0:31.3 | that I'm literally flying from New Zealand, connecting in Hawaii, landing, showering, and immediately |
| 0:37.7 | going garage sailing tomorrow. So if you want to get pumped, episode two of trash talk is going to be |
| 0:43.7 | up at a couple of hours, depending on when you're listening to this noon Eastern on Friday on my YouTube |
| 0:48.6 | channel. What am I on YouTube? Do you rock Gary Vee? Yeah, user name Gary Vee, if you don't |
| 0:54.0 | subscribe to me on YouTube making a huge mistake podcast, everybody rush over episode two of trash talk |
| 0:59.3 | is going to be up and it is bonkers shit. I don't know if you know what bonkers shit is, but it is bonkers |
| 1:04.8 | shit. Enjoy today's podcast. On this episode, my dear friend and business partner Matt Higgins |
| 1:11.9 | stops by. Also, he's about to be a shark. This is the Gary Vee audio experience. |
| 1:24.0 | Hey, everybody, this is Gary Vee, nerd Chuck, and this is episode two 97 of the Ask Gary Vee show, |
| 1:33.6 | and I'm super excited because has AJ been on the show? No. All right, so this is literally |
| 1:39.8 | probably the person I'm most close to that I've ever done a show with. My business partner over |
| 1:44.5 | the last decade will get into that a minute, but Matt Higgins is here. A couple things that are |
| 1:49.5 | exciting about this episode. Number one, he looks better than ever, which makes sense because he's |
| 1:53.6 | on this incredible publicity spree because he is now a shark on one of the most famous shows in |
| 1:59.9 | business period, wearing shark socks. I see it that guest star of shark tank this year. Very much |
| 2:07.6 | well deserved. I'm going to let you tell I'm going to let him tell you his origin story because that's |
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