So at 30, I started Wine Library TV, YouTube blows up at 31. I'm on Conan O'Brien,

Ellen. There's articles being written about me. Now they're writing that the business

grew from three to $60 million in sales on becoming this guy. I got so many goddamn emails

from friends in high school during that period when I was showing up in all these magazines

and TV shows and every single one of them. I was like, hey Gary, you remember me from high school?

Oh my god, you're so lucky. I wrote back every single one of them and said, let me just

clarify one thing. I'm not lucky. I worked. I worked every goddamn weekend at every holiday

since I was 14 years old so you can keep that luck shit in your pocket.

Every day, every day that I live my life, I get five to 27 emails from people that are telling me

that they are quitting or they should quit or are really coming to me as a last resort to

convince them not to quit. I think a lot of times or maybe give them confirmation that they

should quit. Hey Gary, this is Sally. I've been doing my blog now for nine months and I'm not

getting the results that I like to see or that I was promised or that you and you endo.

Should I give up? Is my content not good enough? Is my voice not good enough?

I think about it every time I see these emails, every time people ask me at conferences, I think

about it. I think about how sad I am that I wasn't documenting my life or putting out content

or doing the Ask Gary V show during those five and a half years of Wine Library TV,

especially those 18 months when nobody was watching. The story that's never told is the story that

I was building Wine Library to a huge company long before Wine Library TV and that the first

month that I did Wine Library TV was the first time that Wine Library had not grown 30%

over the prior years revenue. So not only did I have the patience to let it play itself out and win,

it was a scenario where I was actually losing money by being patient. Many of the people that are

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