Summary: CEO of VaynerMedia - Gary Vaynerchuk Right Click to Download the MP3 Right Click to Download the Video Discover why you shouldn't fix what you are bad at, and Gary's tips for asking for what you want. Plus why quality is more important than quantity in the age of social media. Check out GaryVaynerchuk.com for more info! Thanks so much for listening! Transcript: Welcome to Eventual Millionaire. I'm Jaime Tardy and today we have Gary Vaynerchuck on the show. You probably already know who he is, but he is a serial entrepreneur, bestselling author. He wrote Crush It! and Thank You Economy. He has a brand new book coming out. I was actually just at South by Southwest and at midnight he tweeted a location to a secret party and I was there like minutes later and there was a huge line in the pouring rain waiting outside the door. If anyone ever doubted the power of social media I mean that's complete proof. It was ridiculous. Thank you so much for coming on the show today, Gary. GARY VAYNERCHUK: Thanks for having me. JAIME TARDY: First of all, you're doing an interview every single day this entire year, which is crazy. Where did you come up with the idea and has it actually been fruitful for you at all? GARY VAYNERCHUK: I'll answer number two very quickly. The answer is yes because it was fruitful before I even started it. The idea came from, very similar to where we saw each other at South By, with the one on one Q&A booth that I did instead of a keynote. I think a keynote, in front of 4,000 people at South By, was something I had done before. I think being on CNN and The Today Show and Conan, these are things I've done before, they're mass reach, but getting in the trenches and giving back one by one, high impact. Quality over quantity is something that a lot of people don't do. I didn't promote it outside of my normal channels meaning that the people that got the interviews were fans of mine or cared about my work to begin with. It was my chance to give back to 365 people and basically say thank you to them for giving a crap about my work and what I do. I believe in contacts and I believe that, for example, your and my relationship, after this interview, is deeper than it was before and that's what I was going for and more importantly I wanted to let 365 people leverage my name and build more awareness for what they are doing and as a thank you to again supporting what I have done in the past. JAIME TARDY: Awesome. I thank you for that because that's huge, especially because you have a million plus followers on Twitter. I mean, just 365 is huge. Actually let's go back, like way back, because I know you've done a lot of these interviews and we kind of know a lot of what you're doing now. You actually came from Russia, right? I was wondering, did you always know you were going to be successful even then? GARY VAYNERCHUK: Yes. I was born in Belarus, in the former Soviet Union. At the time, it was the Soviet Union. I came when I was 3 so I was really young but I grew up in a lower middle class starting point in Queens, New York, a poor actually, but very quickly my dad worked his face off and gave us a nice foundation. But yes, I would say as long as I can remember I had a really good feel that I was going to be okay. I remember never worrying about grades, when I was literally going back to second or third grade, not worrying about grades; didn't think that that was my way out. Always sold stuff, always had good people skills. Never, never ever waivered or was concerned about my future. JAIME TARDY: How hard did you have to work, like at first? I think one of the things that we always assume is that maybe it was easier for you, right. You're a hustler; you worked your butt off. You figured it all out but it's easier to say that and totally different to actually hear about what you did. Like how many hours, when you first started your first business, how many hours were you working?
