Why You Need to 'Go Full Tilt on Your Dream' in Your 20s

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.8 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I sit down with Benji, the host of New Yorker to discuss why New York City is the "greatest city in the actual world," my advice for young people navigating their careers and the AI revolution, and my takes on the Knicks, Jets, and Lions. I'm grateful that we also dived into my love for the city in every phase and the influence of New York's visual IP on VeeFriends.

You’ll learn:

Why I believe New York is the "most electric" and "most merit-based" city.
The argument for why young, curious, and hungry people should move to New York for "the serendipity of humanity".
Why I advise creative and entrepreneurial youngsters to "go full tilt on your dream" between the ages of 18 and 30.
My warning that AI is a "tidal wave" and the two choices people have for dealing with it.
My prediction that the Knicks "should make the finals" this year.

Transcript

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0:00.0	When you're a kid, you need to fucking go full tilt on your dream.
0:03.3	18 to 30 is fucking straight high risk, high reward fucking life.
0:08.2	You will never have less fucking responsibilities
0:11.0	and you will never have more energy and you'll never have,
0:14.0	like you're now grown but you're not fully like responsible grown.
0:17.5	20 and 30 is a fucking movie and people are settling and going safe when you should be a psycho
0:23.0	Yeah, you should go do stand-up comedy like go right now to the fucking to the cellar and just fucking try like this is when you need to be a maniac
0:29.4	Yeah, and bet the fucking balls on it and so like to me what would I do? Get a job that's closest to who you want to be one day and live within the means of that job's pay.
0:39.5	This is the Gary Vee audio experience.
0:43.6	What's good everybody? It's Gary Vee and I'm with New Yorkers Live.
0:46.4	So we're in New York City Media Company.
0:48.5	Yes. New Yorkers Live, NYSports.
0:51.5	I think definitely I've been consuming you for over 10 years from the early days
0:56.4	of IG and Facebook as well. I'd love to ask you some questions that are New York City related
1:00.8	because our content is all New York City based. We also have the largest sports page on Instagram,
1:05.3	NY Sports. Love. Let's do it. Yeah, we cover all sports. All right. So first question we're
1:09.7	going to ask you, Gary Vee, we're at the Vayner office.
1:13.6	You have thousands of people here.
1:14.6	You have dozens of offices across the world.
1:17.6	Why New York City?
1:18.6	Why do you choose to be in New York City?
1:20.6	Oh, this is super fun.
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