The Brand You Build is the Only Arbitrage You Can Rely On
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I speak to an audience of entrepreneurs about how technology is resetting the business landscape, from the rise of AI to the explosion of experiential events and alternative sports. I dive deep into the changing competitive landscape, where the convergence of social, blockchain, and AI is creating new battlegrounds for attention. I stress that building a personal or company brand is the single most important long-term strategy, and I share my belief that the individual person is about to build a billion-dollar corporation. I also answer questions about the future of live shopping, my hiring philosophy, and why I waited years to raise capital for VaynerMedia.
You'll learn about:
- The Convergence of AI, Blockchain, and Social Media
- Why Attention is the #1 Currency
- The Explosive Opportunity in Experiential Events and Alternative Sports
- Why the Boom in Collectibles "Hasn't Even Begun"
- My Hiring Strategy: Focusing on Self-Confidence over Insecurity
- How to Navigate Capital Issues and the Power of Patience
- Why the Blockchain is a Vital "Ledger of Proof"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | People continue to look at AI as a job killer. |
| 0:04.0 | I continue to see it as an accelerator for people that are on that grind. |
| 0:08.3 | What I've been yelling about for 20 years about social media and building a brand, |
| 0:12.0 | again, has often not hit every industry and every sector because they didn't believe it mattered to them. |
| 0:18.1 | You sit in the death star of your AI ecosystem and you can do the work |
| 0:22.1 | of 25 people by yourself. That's what's coming. And so the quicker you learn what the fuck I'm saying, |
| 0:27.5 | the quicker you can make more money. This is a full battleground now for attention. Attention has |
| 0:32.3 | always been the asset. But what has changed is attention used to be available to a small group of companies |
| 0:40.6 | that had a lot of money. Prior to 1990 to get attention, you'd be a very big company |
| 0:47.1 | and spend big advertising budgets on billboards or radio or television or direct mail or print. |
| 0:53.4 | The individual personnel is about to build a billion dollar corporation. |
| 0:57.8 | If you look at the Rogans or the Alex Earls or Coopers or Mr. Beasts or me or Bartlett, |
| 1:03.9 | like it's incredible once you amass attention what it can be deployed against. |
| 1:08.5 | In your career and building your empire, |
| 1:11.3 | how did you make sure to stick to your own intuition and gut |
| 1:15.5 | and not to make sure your judgment was clouded by anyone else? |
| 1:19.1 | It is so much more fun to die on your own sword than someone else's. |
| 1:24.4 | This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. |
| 1:28.3 | He's welcome to the stage, founder and CEO, VaynaX and VaynerMedia, Gary Vaynerchuk. |
| 1:35.3 | Good afternoon, everyone. It's a pleasure to be here. Full disclosure, I'm incredibly excited right now. My son's basketball team just won |
| 1:45.9 | their championship a few minutes of both. I'm in very good spirits. It's a real honor to be here, |
| 1:53.7 | especially because I associate so much with this audience, right?, first, I have so many friends in this business. |
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