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The GaryVee Audio Experience

Why Is Nobody Telling Young Entrepreneurs This? | GaryVee Q&A With 2024 Summer Residents

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.818.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m fired up to have a real, raw Q&A with a group of sharp, young entrepreneurs as part of my 2024 Summer Residency. And let me tell you—we get into the stuff no one’s talking about, but absolutely should be. Why is nobody telling young entrepreneurs that patience is the key? It’s because no one wants to hear it. But if you’re truly ambitious, you’ve got to fall in love with patience. The problem? So many of you are obsessed with looking successful instead of being successful, and that’s holding you back big time.

We also hit on something huge—judgment. Most of you are stuck worrying about what your parents, friends, or social media think, but here’s the truth: nobody cares as much as you think they do. And when you get that, you’re free to start living for yourself, not for anyone else.

I dive into why your 20s are the time to take massive risks—this is the decade when you can afford to fail and figure out who you really are. You need to stop beating yourself up for not having it all figured out by 22. I’m telling you, if you’re 22 right now, you’re a baby. You have all the time in the world, so don’t get caught up in trying to look like you’ve made it before you’ve actually done anything meaningful.

Listen, this episode is full of the hard truths and big-picture perspective you need to hear right now. Stop worrying about what everyone else thinks, take the pressure off, and focus on doing you. The world sells fear every day—don’t buy into it.

Let’s go, this is a big one!

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you get out of judging others, who this is up there for me,

0:03.7

when you stop judging everybody, you become capable of dealing with judgment,

0:08.4

because that's what's making you susceptible.

0:10.5

Because if you're doing it, you're thinking about them doing it and it's

0:13.2

fucking you up when you realize that nobody actually gives a fuck about your life it's

0:17.1

actually liberating it's not that they don't care it's just that they're worried about

0:20.4

theirs and if you know that then you're fully free at the top of worried about their

0:24.0

at the top of the things I like to talk about is patience.

0:28.0

And boy does nobody want it.

0:31.0

None of you fucking wonderful kids want to swallow patients

0:35.0

swallow patients and live it for the next 10 years but I promise you

0:39.0

the bigger your ambition

0:42.0

the more you have to fall in love with it and it's fucking hard.

0:47.0

Especially now because so many of you in this generation are obsessed with the

0:52.0

optics of being successful more than being successful.

0:55.0

Everybody's flexing in one way or another even if not even if it's not trying to get a

1:00.9

million followers on Instagram it's trying to impress your parents' friends.

1:06.1

Like everyone's doing it for everybody but themselves.

1:09.7

What you don't know right now, and this is actually huge advice.

1:12.8

Ashley J, Clara, Marina, like you know Andrew, you know everybody on here.

1:19.3

Rohe, what you don't know is what it feels like to be 35,

1:25.0

and I'm going to give you the preview,

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