Why The Middle is Over | GaryVee Meetup Series: Minneapolis 2018
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This episode is the new project on the podcast that we’re calling the GaryVee Meetup Series, where we display some of our most powerful interviews from MeetUps, Launches, and PopUps that I’ve appeared at over the years. Today’s episode features interviews from a meetup that I did in February 2018 in Minneapolis where I discuss the state of the internet and why it's cutting out the middle of every industry. Enjoy! Let me know what you thought.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Gary V. Audio Experience. |
| 0:04.0 | Kunae! |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah, first I just want to thank you guys for all coming out. |
| 0:12.0 | It's very flattering. I'm sure you have plenty other things to do. |
| 0:16.0 | So, all right. |
| 0:18.0 | Go ahead, my man. Where'd you go? Yes. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, so I've been working in tech startups for the past three years. |
| 0:24.0 | Okay, okay. |
| 0:26.0 | But, like, kind of like my Achilles heels that I didn't really know. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay. And that's why I got laid off my first startup. |
| 0:32.0 | But I don't think it's an Achilles heel. That's just you were in one specific job where that was a need. |
| 0:38.0 | Like, for example, a Vayner, we are putting more scrutiny on people that are double bubbling because we want people deep as they can be. |
| 0:46.0 | So, I mean, like, kind of a two-sided question. What are your thoughts on like the unicorns of designing UX? |
| 0:52.0 | I think UX really fucking matters. Like, like, it just really matters. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah. It will always be like the number one thing I think about now is the UX of the voice apps. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. Because it hasn't been established. |
| 1:04.0 | Like, we don't know how to communicate with Alexa and Google Home. |
| 1:08.0 | Like, somebody's going to create the audio UX of the next world, the same way there was UX designers for the web. |
| 1:14.0 | In the same way that I used to design my dad's liquor store. |
| 1:18.0 | This IHOP needs to be UXed. Right? |
| 1:22.0 | It can be maximized. There could be more space. There could be more dollars. They could make more revenue if it was perfect. |
| 1:28.0 | So, UX, so user experiences everything. |
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