Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchukis an entrepreneur, investor, author, public speaker, and internet personality...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth14 November 1975
CityBabruysk, Belarus
CountryRussian Federation
wine entrepreneur firsts
I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
play july firsts
I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
love-you parent firsts
Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that.
inspiration giving firsts
Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.
parent advice firsts
The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
first-impression able firsts
I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
best
If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.
building due hours national online people spent success talking videos
My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
cool learning people
People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'
next people
People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
far marketers operating trying work
Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
anyone betting social
Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
broad claim convinced interested obsessed trend whoever
A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in.
across cool keeps people reply scare surprised
I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.