GaryVee

"In my company the number two person is not the CFO or the CEO. The number two person after me is Claude Silver. She is the chief heart officer."

"You know what I did with the Stan challenge. I went off script from what Stan wanted not wanted but like what we planned"

"Go literally Google ChatGPT retirement homes around me."

"it would make sense that a local florist might not be able to do what I'm doing right now and achieve what they want through TikTok shop"

"That's what immigrants do. It's a different model, right? Like it's the family when a family starts a business it's the family business and you don't get the business until the family dies."

"Now somebody here could literally make their first TikTok ever. The level of merit and opportunity for the individual human because of where the algos are in social right now and for every business is profound."

"There are people that are going to explode on YouTube, Substack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and every other platform that are literally going to start tomorrow because they have figured out something of value that the end consumer is interested in."

"It really was driven by TikTok. For all the OGs in the room, it was originally done by Tumblr years ago. I was an early investor in Tumblr and I thought it was going to be bigger than Facebook and Twitter."

"These kind of like collaborations on a live shopping execution exclusively on Whatnot."

"you would get on a plane and spend the next two years going everywhere cuz there's no downside and there's nothing but upside"

"And again, using ChatGPT of like how do I get more viral cuz cuz I'm I'm getting a thousand to 2,000 but there's a lot of tactics"

"TikTok Live is an uncomfortably big opportunity and I love it because it pushes what I push on everyone to the limit because it's nasty in those comments."

"I would spend on getting good at AI tools to help me make more content, to have a better process, to have a better testing environment."

"I think LinkedIn is starting to get more and more obvious. I was wildly early on LinkedIn yelling and now that's getting more obvious."

"LinkedIn is 100% your safe haven, your opportunity. If you know how to use LinkedIn properly, it will change your entire life if you're looking for a job."

"THIS IS A GUY SELLING KOI ON WHATNOT. THIS KOI SELLING. IT'S 30 BUCKS RIGHT NOW."

"You can use Canva AI, ChatGPT, or Opus Clip. You can look at a big-time creative agency and almost no overhead and be a competitor to them."

"Go to ChatGPT, go to Perplexity, go to Gemini and literally type in... The way you learn about AI is with AI."

"Go to ChatGPT, go to Perplexity, go to Gemini and literally type in... The way you learn about AI is with AI."

"Go to ChatGPT, go to Perplexity, go to Gemini and literally type in... The way you learn about AI is with AI."

"You can use Canva AI, ChatGPT, or Opus Clip. You can look at a big-time creative agency and almost no overhead and be a competitor to them."

"If you actually want to do it, go to ChatGPT or Perplexity or Gemini. Type in how do I become a TikTok affiliate."

"If you actually want to do it, go to ChatGPT or Perplexity or Gemini. Type in how do I become a TikTok affiliate."

"I think TikTok affiliate is a huge opportunity for people here, everyday people that don't even have a lot of followers."

"If you actually want to do it, go to ChatGPT or Perplexity or Gemini. Type in how do I become a TikTok affiliate."

"LinkedIn is 100% your safe haven, your opportunity. If you know how to use LinkedIn properly, it will change your entire life if you're looking for a job."

"Please get serious about LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Twitter X, Snap, Instagram, TikTok. Please get serious."

"Please get serious about LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Twitter X, Snap, Instagram, TikTok. Please get serious."

"Five years ago when I was yelling TikTok, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. And all of you thought it was little girls dancing, I thought it's where the world's attention was about to go."

"Please get serious about LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Twitter X, Snap, Instagram, TikTok. Please get serious."

"Please get serious about LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Twitter X, Snap, Instagram, TikTok. Please get serious."

"Please get serious about LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Twitter X, Snap, Instagram, TikTok. Please get serious."

"I wish I was running this business. That is like my You just literally described my dream life."

"Any question you have, put that into ChatGPT. I have bad news for everyone. All the excuses have been eliminated."

"It's last year in America. $10 billion worth of sold on Whatnot and nobody in this room knows what it is. I can't believe how big of an opportunity this is."

"Now somebody here could literally make their first TikTok ever"

"There's an incredible app that you should all look into called District. It's like the Shopify of live shopping."

"If you're a B2B company, for all the B2B people in here, if you're selling SaaS, if you're selling to the people in the room, that is your Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and one every B2B company should be hot committed to LinkedIn."

"Every single company here, every retailer here, if they are not spending an enormous amount of time debating their live social shopping strategy, and in the US, that's predominantly TikTok shop."

"The number one thing a creator can do right now is squeeze the living shit out of the discoverability that is TikTok."

"For everyone who just raised their hands, I could not push Substack more on you. So I think Substack is an unbelievable platform for people that are good writers."

"Any question you have, put that into ChatGPT. Go do three to five hours of research with ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Perplexity."

"If you're an influencer on earth and you're not paying attention to TikTok shop, TikTok affiliate, Whatnot, eBay Live. I can't believe how big of an opportunity this is."

"If you're an influencer on earth and you're not paying attention to TikTok shop, TikTok affiliate, Whatnot, eBay Live. I can't believe how big of an opportunity this is."

"If you're an influencer on earth and you're not paying attention to TikTok shop, TikTok affiliate, Whatnot, eBay Live. I can't believe how big of an opportunity this is."

"I think Raising Canes and Fanatics have really figured it out. They've made really cool parties that are content production days"

"I think Raising Canes and Fanatics have really figured it out. They've made really cool parties that are content production days"

"There are literally everyday people who are becoming TikTok affiliates and selling on live shopping and changing their lives."

"Right now, live shopping, Whatnot, a startup is doing billions. Most people don't know it. It's real now."

"There's the written game, you know, the whole Substack Beehive game."

"There's the written game, you know, the whole Substack Beehive game."

"I would equally in parallel get my hands dirty on whether it's vibe coding or like I would spend the in the hours I spent on trying to figure out how to get followers"

"It would have been okay to go to Vegas or Acapulco or like do some dumb stuff."

"It would have been okay to go to Vegas or Acapulco or like do some dumb stuff."

"And go to Ibiza for 2 weeks and not work. It's all going to be fine."

"They just want a more senior title on their LinkedIn and their resume."

"And the same is true for the content you make on YouTube, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Snapchat, on Pinterest."

"We are in a moment right now where there's more change coming in the next 24 months than I've seen in a long time since really 2005 67 when MySpace and Facebook and Twitter"

"How many people here had a BlackBerry before this phone? Raise your hands. Do you know how many of these people that raised their hands said they would never get an iPhone because they needed the buttons on the BlackBerry?"

"If AI wins the next three to five years and most of us are going to ChatGPT or something like it instead of Google, it's just what Google did to the yellow pages"

"The key here is to leave this conference understanding that you have to put in the work. Put in the work to actually be good at the craft. Not everybody in this hall, in this conference, should be making videos on the internet."

"Cracker Jacks going back a hundred years, put little toys in the box, cereal"

"you see Hershey's did something recently with Pokémon sold out fast. Like little mini Laboos inside this. Like using collectibles to sell stuff"

"How many people here have used ChatGPT or an AI thing?"

"I don't think people realize that Alexa and Google Home and Apple Home are about to use this for real."

"I don't think people realize that Alexa and Google Home and Apple Home are about to use this for real."

"I don't think people realize that Alexa and Google Home and Apple Home are about to use this for real."

"You want Sega Genesis?"

"There are people that are going to explode on YouTube, Substack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat"

"There are people that are going to explode on YouTube, Substack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat"

"There are people that are going to explode on YouTube, Substack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat"

"You can't let your self-esteem or self-worth be wrapped up into metrics on YouTube because it's one tiny proxy in the reality of what you're up to."

"There are people that are going to explode on YouTube, Substack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and every other platform that are literally going to start tomorrow because they have figured out something of value that the end consumer is interested in."

"There are people that are going to explode on YouTube, Substack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and every other platform that are literally going to start tomorrow because they have figured out something of value that the end consumer is interested in."

"Whatnot is an independent app. You just saw that about 3% of the room even knows what it is. It did 10 billion dollars, 7 to 10 billion in GMV last year."

"eBay Live's product is very strong."

"Twitch just launched their shopping. eBay Live's product is very strong."

"You might be better at the QVC part than the content stuff."

"You need to know what Lovable is and vibe coding. Maybe it works for you."

"You understand if this was Super Bowl 1985, not one person in here would not know who Michael Jackson is."

"Go do three to five hours of research with ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Perplexity or whatever your choice is."

"Go do three to five hours of research with ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Perplexity or whatever your choice is."

"live shopping, QVC on social media is going to go"

"This goes back to the Coinbase bouncing QR code"

"when people leave comments on YouTube you suck you're not funny you're not interesting feel bad for them"

"have people that you went to high school with come to your liquor store look you dead in the face as they pulled up in their BMW"

"you want to lay on your couch and bet 14 parlays on Fanatics betting app and smoke a blunt? Like, cool. But like, you're not gonna be the emperor of the world."

"If you complain about not having money and you're taking Uber four times a day, you're fucked up."

"This thing, it's going to be looked upon like an eight track very, very shortly. RIM, the company that brings us the BlackBerry, I'm predicting that they are going to be on the verge of bankruptcy or maybe even sold."

"My brother AJ and I are incredibly proud to be one of the angel investors in the Unrivaled League, which is an incredible three-on-three female basketball league"

"Most people don't know that I have a TV production company that has shows on Amazon Prime and Netflix right now. Vayner Watt."

"I wrote this book. It came out in 2009. It's called Crush It. It's profoundly maybe the best thing I'll ever do in my career."

"Most people don't know that I co-created and co-owned Resi, the restaurant app."

"He's well known for his work in digital marketing and social media, especially through VaynerMedia, the agency he founded."

"COME AND GRAB MY BOOK, Y'ALL. LIKE, IT'S GOING TO GO"

"Look what I'm about to do next year with Wine Library. Wine Library, my dad's liquor store that ships to 30 states and services New Jersey local"

"I used to have this dream that I was going to make a movie called The Last 30 Days. And it was The Last 30 Days of high school."

"Vayner Media my entire career is based on how I did marketing at my father's liquor store 20 minutes that way over the river."

"My last book that I wrote was called Day Trading Attention. I finally figured out like what do I do for a living? I day trade attention."

"VaynerX, my advertising agency is 2500 plus people, 450 million in revenue. It's a big ass business."

"V Friends is very important to me because the lead characters, patient panda, ambitious angel, accountable aunt. These are 250 characters that are taking the good virtues that my mom taught me."

"We had 15 Vayner X employees together in a private room and just doing family business"

"Yes, Raisin Brand. Everyone, I'm scared to use celebrities"

"VeeFriends, the brand is obviously very important to me."

"Collabing with one of the most iconic candy brands in the world with Jolly Ranchers was remarkable."