This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Good morning, thrilled to be here.

Sorry I'm a little delayed, mother nature never loses.

What I really want to do is actually pontificate a little bit.

They've given me a time slot and I decided as I was looking at the social mentions

and just kind of the context of this event that a lot of people actually did have context

for my spiel. Some have shared a stage with me.

Others have been engaging and so I decided to actually cut my chatting down a little bit

because the truth is as a lot of you know I'll put out my general thoughts on entrepreneurship

and business on pretty much a daily basis.

I thought it would be much more interesting is actually try to do as much Q&A as possible.

Because what I think is then I can answer your questions and I find that even when I answer them very specifically

that takes care of 20 or 30% of the audience's questions.

So I'll get into that in a little bit but first I'll give you a little bit of a chat.

You know I've been thinking a lot lately about this whole journey,

about how entrepreneurship has become something of a status and has been put on a pedestal.

I've also been thinking about how scary it is when something becomes cool or interesting

and what that creates. And I've been pondering that quite a bit which is the differences between being an entrepreneur

and being a successful entrepreneur.

You know putting the fact that you're a CEO in your Instagram profile doesn't mean that it's what you're going to be able to do for the rest of your life.

And what I'm really concerned about is that we have lived both in Canada and the US with basically a eight to nine year macro

and it's a decade of good economic growth. We just have.

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