Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.

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Kind: captions Language: en so Gary Vaynerchuk was like my boss essentially and you know I learned a lot from him in terms of like I guess it’s just like always think like one of my old bosses I used to work I was the creative director at vaynermedia so Gary Vaynerchuk was like not my boss essentially you know I learned a lot from him in terms of like marketing is really just about day trading attention like it’s marketing is all about attention and attention to it or price the price for a billboard you’re paying so much per eyeball and it sees it it’s like yes it could be effective but you’re overpaying for it versus create a yoga studio in LA you might generate even more eyeballs and attention at a way WAY lower spend I think it’s just always thinking about who how do I get attention for my brand and what are all the different possible ways that you can get attention what’s like the most cost efficient ways to get that and I have to ask was it awesome or not awesome working for him is the guy the real deal or what I love Gary I think he’s like an incredible human being like you know I’ve worked for a lot of corporate folks and I think there’s there’s a lot of egos there’s people who don’t care and I think Gary like truly cares like even if you’re gonna tell him you’re you’re quitting like he’s gonna be like Oh awesome like do you need any help finding your next thing you know like he’s just like he cares I think that’s what he’s built his whole company on is like you can build a massive company with like a compassionate point of view on your people and not just being some like tyrant kind of do you think there’s any anything about Gary cuz he’s a very public presence right he’s personally out there a lot and you know anytime you person to put yourself out there cuz it’s putting a part of you out there not the whole thing is there anything that either people don’t really know about him or is a misconception that you’ve seen about him is there anything like that I would say that like just talking like just talking with him normally one to one is obviously the volume isn’t as loud as it is when he’s on camera you know very like he’s an entertainer to a degree right now he’s an educational business entertainer but he’s entertaining to watch like the way he talks like how his passion is like how he’s smart like there’s plenty of business people who say smart things but not maybe as many that are like so it’s like in a way he’s kind of playing you know a bit of his character but it’s like off-camera like he’s way more mellow I would say then most people think like you know he’s yeah I was on I was I was on his podcast or like that I forget whatever it’s called and he was very nice and I had we he turned it up slowly but yeah he had he wasn’t on right away you know he had to get amped a little that’s awesome all right well Mike we’ll wrap it up [Music] [Applause]