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The GaryVee Audio Experience

Should You Really Be an Entrepreneur?

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.818.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It doesn’t actually matter to me whether you want to work 18 hours a day for the rest of your life, live on the beach, or watch Netflix all day.

I’m just putting pressure to get people’s actions to map to their ambitions.

Hope this episode helps a few of you figure out who you are, your strengths and weaknesses, and gives you a better sense of what you want to do.

Tweet me what you thought of this format @GaryVee

Transcript

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0:00.0

I was 34 years old.

0:08.0

When I started VaynerMedia, I had spent the 12 best years of my youth building my dad's

0:13.9

liquor store for him.

0:14.9

I left that business, had no money, had no equity, I was worthless to the bank.

0:19.6

Are you wondering, you sacrificed?

0:23.2

I gave back to my family because they gave to me.

0:26.5

This episode is about the state of martial entrepreneurship, confidence and self-awareness.

0:33.4

It's from a video on Gary's YouTube channel that we released about a year ago.

0:37.2

We got some amazing feedback in the comments about what he said around the 12-minute mark

0:42.0

about actions mapping to your ambitions and why self-awareness is the game.

0:46.6

Hope you enjoy.

0:47.6

We're here with Gary Vaynerchuk.

0:53.7

Many of you know as a rock star entrepreneur, but he's also an author and a speaker.

0:58.2

He's a four-time New York Times bestseller.

1:00.4

He runs a 800-person media agency.

1:02.3

He was an early investor in Twitter, Snapchat and Uber.

1:06.4

What's amazing about this podcast episode is we're not just going to talk about how to build

1:10.5

companies.

1:11.5

We're going to talk about how a lot of people launch a company without understanding how

1:15.3

the game works and what it takes to break into a job, learn different skills and go

1:20.5

from there.

1:21.5

And that just wants a welcome Gary.

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