This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Podcast Nation, what is up?

It's me, Gary.

A very exciting day for me.

We're recording this right now as the book is being launched.

It's launch day.

It's going extremely well.

And I want to first start and say thank you to all of you that are supporting.

I really, really, really do appreciate it.

But more importantly, we're doing our second pod sessions.

If you missed the first one, when I think about my career,

the late night hanging out in a hotel room with a bunch of the early Silicon Valley Web 2.0 investors and founders,

really shaped a lot of my thinking and growth.

And those used to be called the jam sessions.

Chris Saka of Shark Tank fame and venture capital fame did a huge piece on him in Vanity Fair.

And he goes into it there.

So go Google that and that explains what those late nights were.

But they were, they were essential moments for me.

And then when I started seeing like documentaries about like Spielberg and Martin Scorsese,

like they had their little rap pack in the mid 70s.

And then you think about artists, right?

Like Janice Joplin.

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