On this episode Ariana Huffington stops by

Hey everybody this is Gary Vaynerchuk and this is episode 213 of the Ask Gary V show

There are a lot of people excited about this episode a lot of chatter on the Slack channel for you

My dear, please tell the Vayner Nation for the four people that are watching this that don't know who you are

Please tell them who you are hi Vayner Nation. I'm so excited to be here

I'm Ariana Huffington as you can hear from my accent. I was not born in this country

I'm an immigrant and naturalized immigrant whatever that may mean. I was born in Greece. I

Have two daughters. I have written 15 books and I have

You just say 15

Jeez, I was proud of my four. That's a real number. I got a lot of

I'm gonna go hustle and together with Kenny Larry who's a good friend of Gary's

I launched the Huffington Post in 2005

So we are now 11 years old unbelievable what a run that was amazing

You know before we get into questions. I'm curious for my own self

What when you when you guys launch that did you know?

Did it feel like yes like you know? Did you not know did it get much bigger?

You thought is it is it still not as big as you thought like what was your real point of view?

Well, we we were very excited about taking the conversation that was going on among really interesting people

Some known some not known and moving it online believe it or not

2005

Bloggers were still dismissed as people who couldn't get a job

Writing in their parents basement. Yes, and we changed the paradigm because like on our first day

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