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"actually ChatGPT, what's the difference between optimism and delusion's good? What's the difference between cynicism and thoughtfulness?"
"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."
"I built my dad's liquor store from 3 to 65 million in revenue on email and Google Adwords. The day Google Adwords came out, I bought every wine term you could ever imagine."
"And then that will be a long form first-party written post on Substack, Beehive, LinkedIn, and Twitter X long form"
"Whatnot is a live shopping app that has collectibles and we're just buying cards, opening up packs. It's our casino."
"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."
"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"
"I've used Gemini Google's AI but I've not done Google search in the way that we all grew up in literally almost the entire year."
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"Do you or do you like what the brand does to make you look to other people? I know in the macro that 98% of people that buy a Mercedes or BMW likes what it makes other people think of them, not that they like it."
"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."
"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."
"Google AdWords as we sit right now is in the same place that the yellow pages were in 2001. You might still be getting business from it, but it is declining rapidly."
"I know in the macro that 98% of people that buy a Mercedes or BMW likes what it makes other people think of them, not that they like it."
"If you complain about not having money and you're taking Uber four times a day, you're fucked up."
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"The days of taking and making a video or an ad or a picture and running media on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok to get clients are over."
"how many people here followed me in 2018 when I was yelling about getting on TikTok even though everybody was on Instagram?"
"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."
"The TikTok economy is one of the greatest opportunities in business right now."
"All you have to do is make organic social media content over and over and over again in as many different ways as possible across Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube shorts, LinkedIn"
"You were one TikTok post away from your life changing. And that is happening at scale to people every day, brother."
"TikTok's the reverse. It just keeps giving you people that don't know you. It just keeps - I'm sold on that."
"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."
"Now somebody here could literally make their first TikTok ever"
"The number one thing a creator can do right now is squeeze the living shit out of the discoverability that is TikTok."
"Six years ago, I was yelling at everybody to be on TikTok. Now everybody cries to me when they see me and be like, 'Gary, I should have listened to you. Now everyone's on TikTok.'"
"Not just Instagram and TikTok."
"You can post on TikTok today with zero followers on a new handle you make up called Janet in Atlanta."
"You can post on TikTok today with zero followers on a new handle you make up called Janet in Atlanta and that post with zero followers that you created today if you make a good piece of content has the ability to get more views than me with 15 million followers on TikTok."
"What does TikTok want? What does Shorts want? What does Facebook want? They want you to stay on there as long as humanly possible."
"There are literally everyday people who are becoming TikTok affiliates and selling on live shopping and changing their lives."
"There are literally everyday people who are becoming TikTok affiliates and selling on live shopping and changing their lives."
"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"
"All of you should go live on TikTok Shop. It's the biggest opportunity."
"So for everyone who just raised their hand, TikTok shop and whatnot are very important because live shopping the QVCification of social media is here."
"This needs to be on TikTok more than whatnot because of the way that algorithm works."
"Buy anything at wholesale that has a higher retail value and go on TikTok shop and Whatnot the app and sell it on live shopping"
"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."
"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."
"The reason I believe this is all of you know that there are many brands that have exploded on TikTok Shop and dominate through affiliate"
"The written word Substack Beehive X long form."
"And then that will be a long form first-party written post on Substack, Beehive, LinkedIn, and Twitter X long form"
"In this room, it is shocking how important LinkedIn, Twitter X, Substack, and Beehive are."
"Substack is one of the most important new platforms of information. It is really a newsletter, email type. It's written content. It's become remarkable."
"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."
"There's the written game, you know, the whole Substack Beehive game."
"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, 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."
"At bare minimum, if you're really going for it, one post that is posted on YouTube shorts and TikTok and Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter."
"YouTube Shorts because it is feeding Gemini's LLM and will show up in AEO and GEO for every business unit here."
"YouTube Shorts has never been more important to this room because the content you put out on YouTube Shorts is feeding the Gemini LLM."
"Everybody here that is not posting the same content they're posting on Instagram or TikTok onto YouTube Shorts that's not doing that must leave today and change that forever. It is a defense mechanism from disappearing."
"All you have to do is make organic social media content over and over and over again in as many different ways as possible across Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube shorts, LinkedIn"
"Please get serious about LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Twitter X, Snap, Instagram, TikTok. Please get serious."
"What does TikTok want? What does Shorts want? What does Facebook want? They want you to stay on there as long as humanly possible."
"I built my dad's liquor store from 3 to 65 million in revenue on email and Google Adwords. The day Google Adwords came out, I bought every wine term you could ever imagine."
"Google AdWords, a day came out, I bought every wine term. They were five cents a click for the first six to 12 months."
"Google AdWords as we sit right now is in the same place that the yellow pages were in 2001. You might still be getting business from it, but it is declining rapidly."
"I've used Gemini Google's AI but I've not done Google search in the way that we all grew up in literally almost the entire year."
"Take full advantage of ChatGPT and Gemini. Using your curiosity because it will lead you to something new and clever."
"Go to ChatGPT, go to Perplexity, go to Gemini and literally type in... The way you learn about AI is with AI."
"If you actually want to do it, go to ChatGPT or Perplexity or Gemini. Type in how do I become a TikTok affiliate."
"YouTube Shorts because it is feeding Gemini's LLM and will show up in AEO and GEO for every business unit here."
"The content you put out on YouTube Shorts is feeding the Gemini LLM, which is going to allow your product to show up when people type in, I need a healthy beef jerky."
"Gemini is Google's AI. Gemini is going to be a very major player in AI. The way someone's going to show up of who should I follow for fashion advice when they type into Gemini"
"how many people in this room now will go to ChatGPT or some other or Gemini and AI to look up something that only 18 months ago they would go to Google search for."
"Go do three to five hours of research with ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Perplexity or whatever your choice is."
"The first three investments I made in 2007 were Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr."
"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."
"I was an early investor in Tumblr. I called my brother after I invested in. I said, 'Bro, I just invested in a company that's going to be bigger than Facebook and Twitter combined.'"
"And then that will be a long form first-party written post on Substack, Beehive, LinkedIn, and Twitter X long form"
"In this room, it is shocking how important LinkedIn, Twitter X, Substack, and Beehive are."
"The written word Substack Beehive X long form."
"There's the written game, you know, the whole Substack Beehive game."
"actually ChatGPT, what's the difference between optimism and delusion's good? What's the difference between cynicism and thoughtfulness?"
"It is either ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude. It's over friends."
"Go literally Google ChatGPT retirement homes around me."
"Take full advantage of ChatGPT and Gemini. I'm curious. I'm like, why did this happen? Break this down in NFL terms like you know that does it."
"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"
"Go to ChatGPT, go to Perplexity, go to Gemini and literally type in... The way you learn about AI is with AI."
"If you actually want to do it, go to ChatGPT or Perplexity or Gemini. Type in how do I become a TikTok affiliate."
"Any question you have, put that into ChatGPT. I have bad news for everyone. All the excuses have been eliminated."
"Any question you have, put that into ChatGPT. Go do three to five hours of research with ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Perplexity."
"how many people in this room now will go to ChatGPT or some other or Gemini and AI to look up something that only 18 months ago they would go to Google search for."
"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"
"How many people here have used ChatGPT or an AI thing?"
"Whatnot is a live shopping app that has collectibles and we're just buying cards, opening up packs. It's our casino."
"These kind of like collaborations on a live shopping execution exclusively on Whatnot."
"Buy anything at wholesale that has a higher retail value and go on TikTok shop and Whatnot the app and sell it on live shopping"
"THIS IS A GUY SELLING KOI ON WHATNOT. THIS KOI SELLING. IT'S 30 BUCKS RIGHT NOW."
"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."
"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."
"Whatnot is a platform that's live shopping. And notice, you know, it's my favorite topic right now."
"The reason I believe in this so much is because Whatnot did do 8 to 10 billion dollars in GMV last year."
"Right now live shopping, Whatnot a startup is doing billions. Most people don't know it. It's real now."
"Right now, live shopping, Whatnot, a startup is doing billions. Most people don't know it. It's real now."
"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."
"It is either ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude. It's over friends."
"Go to ChatGPT, go to Perplexity, go to Gemini and literally type in... The way you learn about AI is with AI."
"If you actually want to do it, go to ChatGPT or Perplexity or Gemini. Type in how do I become a TikTok affiliate."
"Whether it's Claude or OpenAI or Perplex whatever it might be."
"Go do three to five hours of research with ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Perplexity or whatever your choice is."
"It is either ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude. It's over friends."
"Whether it's Claude or OpenAI or Perplex whatever it might be."
"YouTube came out three or four months after YouTube came out. I'm like, this is it. I see something. I started a wine show."
"I started long-form YouTube videos 20 years ago, which is insane to say out loud"
"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."
"My early content was like black and white advice like be on YouTube, it's going to be big."
"Please get serious about LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Twitter X, Snap, Instagram, TikTok. Please get serious."
"She came on the team and she said, 'Yo, we could do YouTube better. This is how I need the first 30 seconds to be. This is what I need the thumbnail to be.'"
"We are in a place now between social live shopping, YouTube streaming, Twitch and kick and all that."
"YouTube is so good at finding the right person."
"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."
"when people leave comments on YouTube you suck you're not funny you're not interesting feel bad for them"
"You watched YouTube videos for four of those"
"And then that will be a long form first-party written post on Substack, Beehive, LinkedIn, and Twitter X long form"
"LinkedIn for B2B content. LinkedIn has never been more opportunistic, especially for people here that do go deep into their product and resourcing and ingredients."
"I think you should be posting 8 to 15 times a day on LinkedIn."
"All you have to do is make organic social media content over and over and over again in as many different ways as possible across Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube shorts, LinkedIn"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"They just want a more senior title on their LinkedIn and their resume."
"They just want a more senior title on their LinkedIn and their resume."
"You can actually go to Amazon right now, look it up, and sort by oldest reviews."
"The only one that I believe 100% is ironcloud is crypto punks because it's got history on its side."
"I'm literally going to fucking flea markets and garage sales and the Goodwill and buying shit for fucking two bucks and selling it on eBay for seven."
"I'm comfortable to say out loud, I'm buying Bitcoin left and right the last 48 hours because I'm cost averaging out."
"The blockchain which people still don't understand the NFTs, Bitcoin."
"You know what I did with the Stan challenge. I went off script from what Stan wanted not wanted but like what we planned"
"We now live in a world, especially with something like Stan, where you can make money. The more money you can make, the more leverage you have for when you raise capital."
"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."
"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."
"If you analyze your 1-hour meetings, make a bunch of them 30, you've just created two 15-minute slots to check in and shoot the shit and really get to know those 15."
"The number one way to build a great culture is to spend one-on-one time with your employees. Make them feel safe to tell you the truth of what's going well and what's not."
"In this room, it is shocking how important LinkedIn, Twitter X, Substack, and Beehive are."
"Please get serious about LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Twitter X, Snap, Instagram, TikTok. Please get serious."
"Snapchat spotlight, if you're trying to reach 15 to 35, nobody's marketing in there because Snapchat's doing a terrible job promoting that they have a TikTok competitor."
"Please get serious about LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Twitter X, Snap, Instagram, TikTok. Please get serious."
"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, 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."
"posting as consistently as they are on TikTok and Instagram, on Facebook blue classic on Snapchat spotlight"
"Everyone who's scared about AI and mad about the work stuff, wait till people realize what AI is going to do to medicine. When your daughter lives because of AI medicine and she wouldn't have without it, you're going to have a different take on AI."
"This is the biggest financial opportunity for somebody under the age of 25 ever. You can build it in a minute with AI. Just ask AI to help you get good at AI."
"You have to start with being kind and empathetic and loving with yourself. Because if you're unable to do that, you will do it for nobody"
"The number one way to get happier is to take on 100% full accountability. If you wake up and say everything is my fault, you get optimistic in knowing that you can then fix it."
"If you're unhappy and you've got some money, go to therapy. The number one thing that's fucking all of you up is you're keeping poison inside of you."
"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"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I think TikTok affiliate is a huge opportunity for people here, everyday people that don't even have a lot of followers."
"I wish I was running this business. That is like my You just literally described my dream life."
"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."
"eBay Live's product is very strong."
"There's an incredible app that you should all look into called District. It's like the Shopify of live shopping."
"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"
"The big business idea that's out there right now is the QVC Home Shopping Network internet play."
"You might be better at the QVC part than the content stuff."
"live shopping, QVC on social media is going to go"
"The big business idea that's out there right now is the QVC Home Shopping Network internet play."
"Things like Commission Junction and all these things out there have nothing but affiliate links left and right."
"Let them still pay for your Uber cuz it's on their credit card."
"If you complain about not having money and you're taking Uber four times a day, you're fucked up."
"Good job, Netflix. Even though they shut that shit down."
"because that's how you show up on your Microsoft Teams or in the office, but not what you actually think."
"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"
"Do you or do you like what the brand does to make you look to other people? I know in the macro that 98% of people that buy a Mercedes or BMW likes what it makes other people think of them, not that they like it."
"You want Sega Genesis?"
"You want Sega Genesis?"
"Whether it's Claude or OpenAI or Perplex whatever it might be... The day my brother called me about OpenAI a couple years ago that first day when that hit and I got home to my hotel room and I played with it. I'm like, 'Oh, this is one of those moments.'"
"How many people here have played with the Meta glasses and wear them at times? How many of you that just raised your hands are blown away how much better the audio is on those glasses than even AirPods right now?"
"How much better the audio is on those glasses than even AirPods right now?"
"Justin TV became Twitch. Ustream shut down, but is in essence what we know as live shot like live today on social."
"We are in a place now between social live shopping, YouTube streaming, Twitch and kick and all that."
"Twitch just launched their shopping. eBay Live's product is very strong."
"Tila Tequila and Dane Cook were crushing it on MySpace."
"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"
"Even in Crush It! that I wrote in 2008 when I predict live shopping, I refer to a platform called Ustream and Justin TV."
"For example, I am on the board of Charity Water. Do you know that as we sit here right now there are 880 million people on earth almost 10 over 10% of earth does not have access to clean water"
"Justin TV became Twitch. Ustream shut down, but is in essence what we know as live shot like live today on social."
"A Charizard is $400,000 for the best one. It's art now. It's Andy Warhol."
"I'm going to own Spotify when AI music gives me the ability to create with my real bars but their flow."
"The fact that computer in Harvard in 1948 or whatever it was, they went in and something was wrong and there was a moth in there and they had to pull it out."
"We are in a place now between social live shopping, YouTube streaming, Twitch and kick and all that."
"The blockchain which people still don't understand the NFTs, Bitcoin."
"I am the all-time great appearance on Hot Ones. I crushed my Hot Ones."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"And the same is true for the content you make on YouTube, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Snapchat, on Pinterest."
"you see Hershey's did something recently with Pokémon sold out fast. Like little mini Laboos inside this. Like using collectibles to sell stuff"
"Cracker Jacks going back a hundred years, put little toys in the box, cereal"
"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 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."
"This goes back to the Coinbase bouncing QR code"
"I know in the macro that 98% of people that buy a Mercedes or BMW likes what it makes other people think of them, not that they like it."
"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."
"Collabing with one of the most iconic candy brands in the world with Jolly Ranchers was remarkable."