Should You Expand Your Business or Stay Focused? Here’s How to Know | Tea with GaryVee Ep.74
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is an absolute 🔥 masterclass for anyone trying to grow a business without excuses. I’m coming to you live from NYC, hyped for Game 4 at the Garden, but even more hyped about the energy in this Q&A. We talk live selling, building a brand from zero dollars, balancing dreams with practicality, and why trust is your best business strategy.
💡 Whether you're 22 and crushing it on Whatnot, launching your first catering biz, or leading a company culture—this episode has gems for every level of the game.
We talk about:
The $2M Whatnot seller and why she shouldn’t stop now
How to build a business when you have $0 and no experience
Why telling people not to hire you builds trust & drives sales
The power of personal brand (and how to post about burritos and your business)
How I coach my leadership team at VaynerMedia (yes, including firings)
My playbook for LinkedIn content that actually lands you business
How to get your first clients using your phone contacts & courage
Advice for entrepreneurs with skeptical spouses
A no-BS rant on negativity vs. hope
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, everybody. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to another episode of T with Gary Vee, episode 74, live from New York City. |
| 0:10.0 | Game 4, Knicks, Celtics at the garden tonight. |
| 0:14.4 | Everything's on the line. |
| 0:15.5 | Every Celtic Nick and NBA fan knows whoever wins game four is going to win it. |
| 0:19.8 | So everyone's super hyped about that. |
| 0:22.2 | We are now into week two of the launch of VFriends trading cards, Tops Chrome. |
| 0:26.8 | These have been an absolute movie. |
| 0:28.1 | If you don't know about them, please go to vFriends.com slash tops chrome. |
| 0:33.5 | Pablo, we're going to you first. |
| 0:35.1 | You have a question. |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah, from Cade. |
| 0:37.9 | Her question is, hey, Gary, I've been selling full-time on whatnot |
| 0:41.3 | for almost two years now, and I've scaled close to two million in sales. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm 22 years old. |
| 0:46.4 | Stop right there. |
| 0:47.2 | She's 22 and has done two million in sales in the last 24 months from 20 to 22. |
| 0:53.5 | Live social shopping is a monster. Like straight up |
| 0:56.2 | even like this weekend, sign up for account on whatnot, sign up to sell and like sit in your |
| 1:02.7 | living room and sell random shit in your house. It's like eBay. It's free money, Dustin. Anyway, |
| 1:08.4 | go ahead. Do you think it's time to start other businesses or should I keep focusing on whatnot? |
| 1:13.6 | No, unless you hate it, but she's just starting. |
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