Gary Vaynerchuk

Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker

Once you embrace adversity and make it your foundation, it is absolutely the framework of success.

About Gary

I was born in the Soviet Union, in what today is Belarus, and immigrated to the U.S. when I was three years old.
Grew up in a studio apartment in Queens, New York alongside eight other family members and later moved to Edison, New Jersey.
I started being entrepreneurial at six years old—I operated a lemonade stand franchise, shoveled snow, traded baseball cards, and more.
Attended the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst where I received my bachelor’s degree.
After graduating college, I took over my family’s retail wine business, re-named it the Wine Library, and began selling their products online—grew the business from $3 million to $60 million a year.
In 2006, I started Wine Library TV, a daily video blog on YouTube covering all things wine—its success helped launch my massive online following.
I left the family business in 2009 and with my brother started VaynerMedia, a social media–focused digital agency, that is now a multi-million dollar company.
As a serial entrepreneur, I own multiple media and lifestyle companies but I am also a speaker, author, and vlogger/podcaster for the #Dailyvee and #AskGaryVee shows.