This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Well, let's start right in.

I think you have a sense of the theme of the show and the show is all about betting

on yourself.

And I want to ask you, first of all, what has that ever meant to you as far as betting

on yourself?

You know, it's an interesting question because at a very young age, probably not even knowing

that sentence existed, I kind of went there.

And what I mean by that is, I was a very poor student as an immigrant that didn't grow

up with much, which was very unusual for immigrants from Eastern Europe coming to the US in the

late 70s and the early 80s.

It was all about education.

But by fourth grade, when I was like 10 or so, I just had a really strong self-realization

that I was, that school was just not going to be important.

And not on some entitled lazy, silly kind of like kid shit, but on some, man, why do I

feel like I really know who I am?

I love selling lemonade.

I love working hard, shoveling snow.

I like this baseball card thing.

I don't, the word entrepreneur didn't exist.

But by the time I was in sixth and seventh grade, 12th, 13, it was just very clear to me

that I was going to be a quote-unquote business man.

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