Gary Vee
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561 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard Sep 2025
Gary Vee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If that thing is knitting, or if that thing is sports gambling, which would be highly not acceptable right now by most parents of 11 year olds, though the math behind it is very similar to poker and all this other stuff, and I do believe that moms and dads all across the world right now have 11 year olds whose number one passion is sports betting, and they look down on it because what they look on was the past.
bookies, the mafia, Las Vegas. That's where we're all coming from our past. And I always look at the future. That's my knack. So what I see is that the sports better is gonna be put on the pedestal similar to the stock trader or similar to a professor. Or let me give an example that's already happened. If you walked into your parents' house in 1987 and said, dad, I wanna be a chef.
your dad would have been like, you're gonna be a cook in a restaurant, you loser. But what would have happened is you could have gone on to become a famous chef which is what culture was 10 years ago. It's not as cool today to be a famous chef as it was 10 years ago. But it's still pretty cool and it's crazy compared to 1985 where your parents would have thought you were a cook.
And if you listen to your kids, they're going to give you insights to what the future can be. And this is a very powerful parenting tip. Every parent is judging their kids based on yesterday, but your kids are living in today, which is a better indicator of tomorrow.
Trying to give Dee some micro content for my Instagram. You know, but this is, I really like how I articulated that. Like that makes a lot of sense to me and that has been the benefit. You know, when I said to my dad, I want to open a dot com in 1996, my dad had never been on a computer at that point. I'm being serious right now. Had never physically used a computer at that point.
So he's, you know, 43 years old and has never in his life used a computer. So for him, to judge me deciding to launch a .com, I ended up being historically correct. I also luckily had an incredible father who at that point saw what I did in a liquor store from 14 to 21 and saw that I worked hard and I wasn't an idiot and I paid my dues and he gave me my opportunity to do that.
A lot of kids go into their family business and expect their parents to let them do something, but they didn't put in the seven years that I put in. People are always like, Gary, how'd you convince your dad to let you do those radical things? By working my face off from 14 to 22 by the time I was 20. Nobody understood that. So anyway, man, I'm really excited we're talking about this.
I think we just helped a lot of parents. I really mean that. And hearing that you have an 11 year old, he's more right than you are. Now, the key to this whole thing was, it's funny that I brought up 14 to 22. The key if your son wants to be a professional sports gambler or a sports card flipper or a sneaker flipper or an esports star or an Instagram celebrity is work ethic.
This is where parents often make the mistake in reverse. When I turned 14, I was a bad student. I was already a baseball card entrepreneur. My mom and dad looked at me and said, you now work in the liquor store every day. You're not gonna Harvard big shot? That means you're gonna have to work. You might as well start now.
So if your kid tells you that they're not gonna follow the school system and they're not gonna be in the NBA, they might not be able to be on three basketball teams. You may have to cut them to one because you want them to still have a balanced life, but they better work. Parents are not putting kids into the working system early enough.
So now you have a kid that's getting D's and F's, but he's telling you, mom, don't worry, I'm gonna be the next Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg sold CDs. Mark Zuckerberg built apps when he was a kid. There's a second part of this conversation that's not being talked about. I've never talked about it. I'm pumped for putting this on film as well.
If you're gonna let your kid be an entrepreneur, and that's the path, I want that kid to actually work. So what job do you want these kids to get? Either a business that actually makes money that they're doing by themselves, that's fine. Get a joint account. Show me, Ricky. Not ideas, ideas. Execution. You got a business this summer?
You're a DNF student going into ninth grade and now we're going to high school? We've had a very adult conversation that you're not gonna maybe go to college or you're not a great student?
Okay, in between your summer from eighth to ninth grade, instead of slacking off and getting ready for high school, you either A, go work at Walmart so you can get dirt under your nails because that's the future of your life. No kid wants to do that. Or you better start flipping on eBay or StockX or show me that your Instagram account around Magic the Gathering or around fashion makes money.
So I'll give you June but if on 4th of July you can't show me a bank account that has $2,000 in it because you sold ads on your Instagram now you're going to Walmart. Suffocating that is the key to practical parenting instead of ideological parenting. And that is the framework of my optimism. And confidence. And confidence. Because what happens is that kid gets real life.
And so what's gonna happen is Sarah is either gonna sell $480 worth of slime, which the market is gonna give her positive reinforcement. Not her friends saying that she looks pretty. The market buying $480, that becomes, that's what was my positive reinforcement. I didn't need my teachers or my friends or the system.
When I did a baseball card show and I sold $2,000 worth of cards, the market was telling me I was good. Validating you. Validation. Yes. The market. No individual human. You didn't need anyone to do it. The market. Look, I'm literally getting, look at these goosebumps. It's a really interesting insight. That is really powerful.
It's why nobody's opinion ever mattered to me, but everybody's collective opinion matters to me. My reputation matters to me, just not Dustin's singular point of view. And Dustin's matters to me because he knows me better than you do. And now you matter more to me than you did 30 minutes ago. But RickyPants49, who leaves a comment on Insta, he just knows what he sees on Insta. He doesn't know me.
Your closest friends and relatives don't know you. Nobody actually ever fully knows you. So why are you letting somebody's anonymous comments dictate how you feel about yourself?
They value other people's opinions. You know what else it does? People are like, Gary, you're so humble. I don't value other people's opinions. So when people come in and say, you walk on water, I'm like, cool. No, really, it goes both ways, right? A lot of people talk about the trolls or the haters. You know, when you kind of cross the chasm and now you're getting macro ridiculous.
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