I Spent 100 Hours Listening to Gary Vee. Here is What You Can Learn from Him

Holmes Nguyen
The Startup
Published in
6 min readJan 23, 2023

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People overestimate what they can achieve in 1 year, but underestimate what they can achieve in 10 years.

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Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee) is one of the personalities you won’t forget when coming across.

He drops the F-bomb every few minutes on stage.

For a public figure, that’s not too common.

Is it because he wants the attention? Maybe.

Or maybe just because he’s staying true to himself thus saying whatever is on his mind. Unfiltered, so to speak.

Gary Vee is super duper popular among the marketing, business, and entrepreneurship communities.

He gives advice to young people on the importance of hustling and how to hustle. Or you can say that he’s the representative of the hustle culture.

In other words, you should “keep your head down and grind”.

I know that the word ‘hustle’ has a bad taste in some people’s mouths. But that’s because they confuse normal’ hustle with the ‘toxic’ hustle culture, which is when you prioritize work above all else:

  • Long working hours with little rest
  • The constant pressure to be productive
  • Believing that hard work…

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Holmes Nguyen
The Startup

A marketing professional from Finland. Discovering what works in marketing and sharing it here. MS in Sustainable Entrepreneurship