This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Gary, it's been a huge pleasure to have you for the first time here in Brazil.

Thank you very much.

Yes, we have a huge outing, audience here with businessmen, people from marketing, people from self-development.

Yes, and for us to start, one thing I think is very important is most of the guys also know your story.

Yes, but tell me a little more.

When what was the exact moment, you start creating this huge content, yes on the internet.

I know you start on YouTube or one of the first guys to monetize, make money from YouTube.

Yes, but tell a little about your story.

I was a very entrepreneurial kid, always creative, always focused on signs when I was selling lemonade, when I was selling baseball cards, when I was helping my dad's liquor store.

I didn't, you know, only recently that I realized I was creative, but in hindsight, I was always making signs.

I always thought that was being a salesman, but in reality, I was doing marketing and I was doing creativity.

And then it was a website, and I spent a lot of time being creative with the website, and then it was advertising on Google AdWords and email, and I was doing copy.

And I didn't realize all these things, they just thought like the thing you would do to sell.

I didn't think of it as a profession or as a concept.

For me, it was sales and businessmen, not creative, not content.

And then YouTube came along, and I saw it very early on, Eric Casner.

I told you, are you at that moment? At that moment, I was 29.

And then just turned 30, and my first video was when Wine Library TV was three months after I turned 30.

And in front of a camera, just like this, with three bottles of wine, I did a video. It was the first time I ever done a video in any shape or form.

And it felt right. I remember, as soon as it was over, a couple hours later it was on YouTube. YouTube was very small back then.

Not a lot of views.

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