This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Because we're gonna be legends!

You didn't have stuff, but it was because my parents were saving.

They were saving. They were saving. And my mom spent, we didn't get toys.

Like, go outside and paint a rock, right? It was like very, very smart.

Because after seven or eight years, he was able to buy a liquor store in his own

in Springfield, New Jersey. Shoppers, this count liquor.

He built up a great business, $34 million a year business, like made it, right?

Literally made it. Middle class, upper middle class made it.

We didn't ever need anything. They didn't spend a lot, they're big savers.

But we made it. And then I got dragged into it at 14, you know,

oldest son, I'm one of three. I was the oldest son.

14 can you even be at a liquor store?

Yeah, because nobody was really checking. But, you know, good question.

That's probably not. 16, you could get a permit.

But I was in there at 14. That's probably why they put me in the basement.

And I was in there, bagging ice, stocking shelves.

And somewhere around 16, 17, I realized that people collected wine.

And that caught my attention because I was deep into baseball cards and comic books at that point.

And I really, really enjoyed learning the wine world and really became fascinated by it.

And that all manifested a couple years later to me launching in 1996,

a site called WineLightWry.com. We rebranded the store to WineLibrary.

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