Gary Vee's Business Reality
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Sam Parr shares his firsthand experience visiting Gary Vaynerchuk's business operations, concluding that despite Gary's loud public persona, he runs a legitimate and impressive enterprise.
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Initial Impression of Gary:
- Not the typical "cocaine Gary" personality
- Low-key and professional in person
- Totally nice during their interaction
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Business Legitimacy Indicators:
- Operates two offices in New York
- Hudson Yards location
- Studio space in Long Island City
- Professional Infrastructure:
- 800 employees
- Expensive real estate
- High-quality office furniture
- Professional setup throughout
- Custom branded items (Vayner Media water)
- Operates two offices in New York
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Company Culture Assessment:
- Buzzing office environment
- Employees appear genuinely happy
- Based on conversations with front desk and staff
- Professional workspace with quality equipment
- Everyone had nice computers
- Well-established operation, "not a startup"
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Overall Evaluation:
- "Totally legitimate and a really good business person"
- Running Vayner is "really really hard"
- Currently serves as both CEO and COO
- Comparable to Trump in terms of loud personality, but "totally the real deal"
- "Kudos to him... he's talented"
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.