Welcome to the Self Publishing School podcast. This is the podcast to listen to if you're an

aspiring writer or an author who wants to be more successful. On this show, you'll learn how to

write and launch a book successfully, all from the top authors and people just like you

who are doing it at the highest level. I'm your host, Chandler Bolt, the founder

of self-publishing school, the author of the book called Published and the CEO of Self-Publishing.com.

For free training on how to publish a book that sells 10,000 copies, go to self-publishing.com

forward slash free training. Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is Gary Vaynerchuk.

Fresh out of college, Gary took his family wine business and grew up from a $3 million a

year business to a $60 million business in just five years.

Now he runs VaynerMedia, one of the world's hottest digital agencies.

And along the way, he became a prolific angel investor,

venture capitalist, investing in companies like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Uber, and BirchBox,

before eventually co-founding VaynerRSE, a $25 million investment fund.

Gary is also the host of The Ask Gary Vee show and the author of four

New York Times bestselling books, including Crush It, the Thank You Economy, Jab, Jab, Jab,

Right Hook, and Ask Gary V, which we'll be talking all about today. So Gary, welcome. Great to

have you. Thanks for having me, brother. Awesome. So I want to kind of take it back to the beginning.

And a lot of people would ask, okay, so you're running a successful company, right? Why get

into this whole book thing? Why write and publish your first book? You know, I never thought

books. You know, I never, you know, I never thought about being a personal brand. I never thought

all this was going to happen. I thought I was going to build a I never thought, oh, this was going to happen.

I thought I was going to build a big wine store.

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