The Future of Esports & Sports Betting | #AskGaryVee 304 With Strauss Zelnick
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On episode 304 of the #AskGaryVee Show, entrepreneur Strauss Zelnick stops by and we chat about:
(0:40-3:10): Did Strauss green light Ghoulies?
(3:11-11:28): Strauss’ career path.
(11:29-14:59): Predicting the next ten years.
(15:00-15:39): Thoughts on blockchain.
(16:40-17:47): Sports betting.
(17:48-23:13): Th future of esports
(23:14-25:15): What’s going to pop next in culture?
(25:16-29:59): How to run a price-based business today.
(30:00-33:16): How to get users for your app.
(33:17-38:49): The state of entrepreneurship today.
(38:50-40:30): At the end of the day, what are we all doing here?
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strausszelnick
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/strauss-zelnick-7800252
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I love chaos. I'm doing 800 things. You didn't start doing it. That's right. And anytime I know I'm about to do so |
| 0:06.1 | I did VaynerMedia head down for five years to build a foundation. I always tell people this |
| 0:22.4 | Hey everybody, it's Gary Bay, nerd Chuck and this is episode three or four of the Ask Gary V show and I'm really excited |
| 0:30.5 | For this next guest and we're coming in super cold |
| 0:33.8 | Nick Dio my team said hey, I think Strauss should be on your show. I'm like |
| 0:38.3 | 100% |
| 0:40.0 | being invited to a |
| 0:42.0 | Strauss party maybe nine years ago in the in the tech kind of media scene was a super highlight for me and |
| 0:49.4 | Some of you who know me know that Ben layers are very good friend of mine and earlier that |
| 0:54.5 | Like three months earlier than that party Ben and I |
| 0:58.1 | You know how like guys or gals get into like a meme of like something that's funny to them |
| 1:02.9 | Somehow a movie called Gouli's |
| 1:05.5 | Became this like really funny thing for you know that movie |
| 1:12.0 | Was it I thought it was like a horror movie. Yeah, it was a little bit of both |
| 1:15.4 | Here's the punchline somehow at Sundance this |
| 1:18.9 | movie Gouli's which I didn't know about but then like in this weekend it became the most important thing in my life |
| 1:24.8 | So then a couple months later we go to Strauss's house for this event or what have you somehow we're not a lot of people are left and |
| 1:32.4 | Somehow me and Ben are just somehow it gets referenced |
| 1:35.9 | Gouli's like we say something. It's like the inside joke. It's the meme and Strauss goes I made that movie |
| 1:41.8 | Which to this day is a top like ten |
| 1:45.5 | Strauss and I'm not spent a whole lot of time together. We have a lot of mutual friends |
| 1:48.7 | I have an enormous amount of admiration from him from afar |
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