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The GaryVee Audio Experience

The Hardest Lesson I've Ever Learned

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.818.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is an amazing conversation I had on 20VC! We discussed my introduction to the investing world, the first company I ever invested in, how luck plays a role in almost everything in life, the most valuable lesson I ever learned behind the scenes of the liquor store days, and much more! I hope you enjoy!

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0:00.0

Me doing what I want to do every day means I'm doing plenty of things every day I don't want to be doing in the micro.

0:05.1

Right, there's a next meeting, the this, this fire, but in the macro I'm playing the game.

0:10.5

I'm the captain of this ship and on sunny days I get to enjoy it and when the

0:15.8

storm hits and our boat might tip over I've got to have my hands on the wheel and I've got

0:21.1

to fix it. That's where I want to be forever.

0:24.0

Gary, this is such a joy to do. As I said to you beforehand,

0:27.0

seven years of me waiting, but I'm so thrilled that you join me.

0:31.0

So thank you so much for joining me today.

0:34.2

Thanks for having me, Harry.

0:35.2

Glad to be on the show.

0:36.5

Not at all.

0:37.1

I would love to start on, before we dive into the real meat,

0:39.2

just as some context.

0:40.5

How did you make your way into the world of investing and tech first before we dive into the meat?

0:45.0

You know, I never knew about investing.

0:49.0

You know, I was, when did I invest in Twitter, 2007?

0:54.2

I was 32 years old the first time I made an investment.

0:58.2

I had never really even heard about angel investing.

1:00.8

The world was very different back in 2006. Now it is common practice.

1:04.2

Most kids think about being an investor. You have 13 year olds, you know, on Robin Hood and

1:08.9

NFTs. And so I was 32. I never thought about it prior, but I got into social media, Web 2.0, and I started to go to things like

1:19.1

South by Southwest and this and that.

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