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Gary Vaynerchuk Highlight
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.
