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The GaryVee Audio Experience

The Secret to a Valuable Brand: Why You Should Stop Buying What Others Like

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.818.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, recorded live at Art Basel, I break down the concept of value and why brand means everything - from a pair of socks to a bottle of water. I deep dive into the purpose and strategy behind VeeFriends, my IP, and how I'm building a universe of 268 characters to push attributes like kindness, accountability, and empathy to the world. You’ll hear my playbook for event activations, why I’m going all-in on fashion collaborations, and my advice for young collectors on how to avoid signaling insecurity when buying art, NFTs, and sneakers.


You’ll learn about:

  1. Valuing Intellectual Property and Digital Assets

  2. Core Objectives for Building a Digital Community

  3. Strategic Event Planning: Art Basel, NBA All-Star, and Super Bowl

  4. Leveraging Fashion for Rapid Market Entry

  5. Defining "Culture" Beyond Brand-Specific Fandom

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Gary Vee audio experience.

0:03.0

How do you assign value? What is value?

0:07.0

I saw it you had Puma socks and I my brain goes to those are 37 cents

0:12.0

that he paid nine bucks for because it has four letters in the same order with the same logo and it means something.

0:18.0

So you know for me that's just how the entire world works. Well Gary it is such a pleasure to be here with you today here at Art Basel, thank you so much for your time. Happy to be here, thanks for having me. You know, I wanted to start off. For those here at Basel, tell us about Visco, you know, this event, and what you want people to walk away with here?

0:40.8

You know, in general, when I do things with my companies,

0:45.4

whether it's VaynerX, which is the holding company that has VaynerMedia and Vayner 3,

0:48.0

which are two of the more prominent people playing at V,

0:52.5

or V Friends, which is my intellectual property, NFT project,

0:57.0

when we do things like Basil or, you know, NBA All-Star or Super Bowl or Cannes or South by,

1:01.0

really what I'm always thinking about is

1:04.0

how do we reverse engineer a scenario,

1:08.0

an activation, a collaboration,

1:11.6

or an event space that creates serendipity,

1:16.6

conversation, relationship building.

1:19.6

I think of it from a karma standpoint.

1:22.6

I think a lot about intent.

1:25.6

I think too many business people and companies when they're activating

1:30.5

and things like this are too transactional, right? Like, we're going to do this thing and we're

1:35.1

going to bring our clients and we're going to get the money. I just don't think like, I think

1:38.8

humans can sense that. And so I kind of go completely the other way, which is like, how do we

1:43.3

do something that brings so much value to anybody that comes, whether it's a personality that's there

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