This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Thank you guys for having me.

I'm super excited to be here.

Let me give some context of where I come from because I assume a lot of you don't know.

I'll just be a little bit about a couple of point of views I have that might be interesting given the audience.

And then I'd love to go into Q&A because I think that's where the most interesting stuff happens.

So I was born in the former Soviet Union.

I came to the US when I was three.

We grew up super poor.

I lived in a studio apartment in Queens with eight family members.

It was a really tough upbringing.

My dad got a job as a stock boy in a liquor store making two bucks an hour.

And I kind of grew up with that American dream merchant kind of world.

We were very immigrants saved every dollar and eventually five or six years into the US.

My dad bought a small liquor store in New Jersey.

I moved to Jersey when I was six.

I was very entrepreneurial lemonade stand baseball cards, washing cars,

raking leaves, shoveling snow, anything to kind of make a buck.

When I was in the US when I was 12 or 13 baseball cards were a very big deal.

Everybody collected them.

And I was making one to two thousand dollars a weekend selling baseball cards as a 12 or 13 year old.

So probably the richest I'll ever be.

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