 I create an obnoxious amount of content. Don't do anything. Just keep watching. Keep watching my stuff. Keep being entertained by my energy. Keep being inspired. Don't do it. What's the ROI of your mother? The way you're going to make money online, and by the way, anywhere, is by grabbing it. There's a lot of people that are giving advice online because people react well to it. Because they're giving advice because when they give advice people respond to it and they say, this is amazing and they'll like it and they'll give them positive feedback and love. But their advice is at least a certain percent of it is just nonsense. They're just talking. Hustle. Grind. But what? Hustle what? Grind what? Grind. Hustle. Stop whining. What should I do? Stop whining. Hustle. Grind. I'm kidding Gary. I love you. I'm inspired by you every day. Hi guys, it's Madison back. I have to stop saying that. That's not where we are anymore. We are not in a blue kitchen anymore. This is the setup for today at least. The four pieces of paper in the background is supposed to say bye-bye blue kitchen. But I don't know if any of you guys can read that. I'm in a swivel chair. It's going to be really interesting filming with this. Today we are talking about the highly admired Gary Vee. Now I'm a little scared for this one because Gary Vee has a lot of supporters and I want to put out there really quickly before this video. This video is not to like needlessly hate Gary Vee as much as he might like to portray any criticism as I am not just a hater and I'm not here to try and bring him down or anyone who supports and loves him but I do think that there's a conversation surrounding Gary Vee and what he does that's worth having and I'm here to have a conversation. I wish the best for Gary Vee and all of his supporters but I'm nervous that Gary Vee might be giving children and young adults kind of the wrong ideas on a lot of different subjects. So let's talk about it. But first before we get into the video, if you enjoy deep dives and like to analyze scams and unethical business practices going on on the internet, don't forget to subscribe down below and give this video a thumbs up to boost this video. My voice cracked when I said that. A thumbs up. Anyways, let's get into it. Now if you've never heard of Gary Vee before this video Gary Vee or Gary Vaynerchuk Gary Vee is kind of his nickname is known as this self-made millionaire who's created massive success for himself and goes on to teach others how to teach others. It's just so intense. The reason I just went there, I'm just thinking how the hell do I get them to understand? How do I get people to understand how big of a deal this is? Like nothing is more valuable than attention. It's the only... I literally value attention equal to oxygen. I never think I'm right. Ever. I have no interest in telling anybody how to do anything. Your country is not the variable of your hustle, my friend. Do you know how fnoxiously thick my skin is? You can punch me in the face 8,000 times. I'm here to get punched. There is no reason to do shit you hate. None. You know what I hustle about? I hustle about meeting every single person on earth. Do you know why? Because I care about people who want to care about myself. See, I don't really know what Gary Vaynerchuk teaches and I've watched hours and hours of Gary Vaynerchuk or Gary Vee videos and I still don't really know what the core message is. Whether it's be happy and love what you do, don't go to college, work really hard and constantly grind or don't listen to the haters. If you have watched on my channel my FreeBot video and my Jake Paul video, you've probably noticed that I have a lot of critical things to say about Gary Vee. But a lot of people were pretty upset that in my FreeBot video, I basically called Gary Vee a get-rich-quick millionaire mindset guru free-bought scammer. So let's read those comments to get an idea of what a lot of people have to say in defense of Gary Vee. It's always important to examine other sides. I'm just gonna roll away to get my phone real quick. Purpose of a rolling chair. As much as yes, Gary Vee is not a genius in stuff. I've never seen him selling anything. He's mostly doing motivational speaking and social media marketing. All of his content is free. Right? When someone left a similar comment on a Gary Vee video, I thought that this response was really good. This guy says, Nothing is ever free. If you don't see the product, you are the product. Never saw him promoting a get-rich-quick program or something like that. Do I think that his wine and everything he slaps his name on is overpriced? Yes. So he's not selling anything but then he's overpricing things that he's selling. I draw a lot of inspiration from him but never had to pay money for any piece of content and I've heard really good things about him and how his books have actually changed how people interact with social media and stuff. As much as I totally agree with everything you said in the video, I disagree with Gary Vee being on the list. Love your videos. Yes, Gary Vee doesn't sell the very obvious get-rich-quick scam course that a lot of other people like Ty Lopez here in my garage sell. But as this commenter pointed out he has a lot of businesses in which maybe if he built a very large audience the awareness would be spread more and there's nothing wrong with self-promotion. There's nothing wrong with marketing yourself with building yourself as a brand but when it's disguised as selfless care or others and selfless motivation now that's a little bit shady. But I do want to say I appreciate that comment. LOLs, you're probably right about all those other gurus but Gary Vee is the real thing. Really do your research on the people before you stamp them with the fake guru label. Gary Vee built his business to a massive success before ever giving out advice. He gives advice today because he became extremely successful first. All of his advice today is because he's sincerely trying to help others and uplift people. He's still very much business, by the way. It's during his extra time that he gives his two cents for young entrepreneurs who want to be as successful as him one day. Sure, he gets asked or paid to be a guest to speak at events. Most successful people do. However, he doesn't host seminars only speaking about how to be successful. Some events by his company feature a bunch of different people who actually worked hard and made something out of their lives which is different from all these other fake gurus. If you don't know what the product is you are the product. Looking at Gary's most recent companies that he started, VaynerX, VaynerMedia companies that he started after his successful motivational books came out you can see how he's directly profiting off of his following by creating events with other motivational speakers by establishing himself as a marketing and advertising genius to sell to other companies even if he is not directly selling to his audience they are a commodity in which he is able to gain further successes. Do I think this means he's a scammer? No. I think that it's definitely a smart business move but the unfortunate thing is as you can tell from a lot of these comments a lot of people actually believe that Gary's soul motivation is just to help them and I'm not sure if that's the case he built a large brand becoming a motivational influencer and then built companies that develop and capitalize off of social media influence and motivational speakers I'm not one to say what Gary Vee's intentions are but Gary Vee has said it best himself One of the reasons I think my speaking career has gone so well is I'm reverse engineering the crowd in real time How so? I'm literally giving the talk and feeding off the reactions and navigating in an improv manner on my business content Okay so now if you're going to give a speech so if you're going to give one of these keynotes what's your objective? What are you trying to accomplish when you're doing that? Like brand How do people make money on Instagram? I don't make any money I have 1.8 million Instagram followers I've made zero cents So I would argue you do make money because you're using a chess move instead of transacting just on that platform That is a platform where you create reach and awareness that drives towards things of this nature and then you either sell advertising or get into business development where you have pieces of equity in businesses that you build through the attention I appreciate all of you guys your attention to the world So either you're doing commercials or you're doing step two which is you're building brand So one thing I've never done is I've never been paid ever for a piece of content I put out on social which is the majority of how people get paid but I get paid $100,000 to give a speech and I've done that because of the attention and awareness that I've been able to build on those platforms Jamie, book me some speeches I'm going to start doing speeches I just do have to point out something that I did talk about in my freebot video which is that a lot of these gurus label a lot of the stuff that they're putting out as free I just wonder what that does to the consumer mind when you are perceiving something as free as out of the goodness of someone's heart It's like if I were to say every single time I started this video Hey guys, welcome back to another free video for you to watch It's like, yeah it might be kind of free for you but you're still putting your time investing your time into watching this thing and I'm still gaining something out of it even if you're not directly spending money on this video I'm still getting YouTube AdSense I'm still being able to build a platform off of topics that I love even if technically it doesn't cost you anything to watch this video it doesn't necessarily mean it's completely free and that's what I find very interesting with a lot of people like Gary Vee is they so often throw out the word free but I at least wanted to put that out there for this next comment that I'm about to read the first hour of this video you were spot on but you are so wrong with Gary Vee he doesn't sell courses he gives out free content all day long the only thing he sells is like $10 books once every couple years he runs a massive marketing agency working with big brands and companies like Pepsi he's not one of these fake scam artists like many of the others featured in this video I did mention that Gary Vee is different from other blatant free-bought scammers but that does not mean that he is not amongst the umbrella of millionaire mindset gurus that gain even more success from creating a brand around advice that they give would his companies that he's created be as successful as they are or as notorious if it wasn't for the brand that he built of himself do I think that Gary Vee is a complete and total scammer not necessarily but I do think that he is massively manipulating an audience into thinking that he's way more selfless than he is and it's concerning to me how well it works now I definitely want to say these comments are 100% right Gary Vee is not the normal get rich quick guru scammer he's much smarter than that these get rich quick gurus use the word free to rope people in and believe that there's some sort of generous teacher of sorts when really the main thing that they're after is to build a following and then profit from this following receives them as some sort of selfless guru I can't help but read these comments and feel that Gary Vee is kind of doing the same thing except for he's doing it successfully now I want to say something at the very beginning of this video that my dad told me when I was 5 nothing is ever free whether you're giving your time your money your devotion or word of mouth promotion nothing is ever free those who are great at marketing and even better at advertising know the value of a sales funnel free promotion word of mouth marketing and the value of time and most importantly if they're a multi-millionaire they usually understand the value of their own time and use it in very calculated ways probably the skeptic and me but even philanthropy by these larger influencers or faces or public figures seems like a tactical way to gain attention and followers and build a brand in fact Tiffany Ferg did an amazing video on that entire subject which definitely fits into this whole topic so the second I see the word free all I can think of is this giant red flag this person is disguising personal interest as philanthropic interest because nothing is ever free so the absolute seriousness that others have when they say Gary is legit he does everything for free to help you and to help me kind of scares me the fact that most people can see right through other get rich quick gurus but Gary Vee seems to be this wonderful incredible exception to the rule kind of scares me why are people so convinced that Gary Vee is the only motivational guru and the only one with the right intentions and is there something that I'm not understanding before we can understand Gary Vee I do think it's really important to understand his audience and his supporters Gary Vee undoubtedly has an intense and loyal following who believe him to be an absolute genius enlightening us with pure knowledge but his advice be like and I think the way people look at the world right now because it's such an incredible time is actually the quickest tell to who they are if you think it sucks but it's bad you have losing pessimistic DNA and if you think it's awesome and phenomenal pessimistic winning DNA that's that is pessimistic saying that if you have pessimistic DNA you're basically going to be pessimistic for the rest of your life because he's a motivational speaker you have to listen to sometimes of what he's actually saying because sometimes he just trats complete air to me everything's about breathing right like to me everything is about like take full ownership for everything and then everything gets easy control regardless he's obviously giving his audience something that they really need to hear to make them promote him defend him support him and listen to him so what is Gary Vee giving that causes this intense level of admiration and trust the first thing is authority when you go on to Gary Vee's website the very first thing that he has is his story the reason why is because Gary Vee knows that in order to gain someone's trust you have to come from a place of authority a sort of see I know what I'm talking about kind of thing so let's read Gary Vee's story to see how much he puts himself in a position of authority yeah Gary is a highly sought after public speaker a five time New York Times bestselling as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo and Uber Gary is currently the subject of daily Vee an online documentary series highlighting what it's like to be a CEO and public figure in today's digital world people's ability yes but people's ability to say no right yeah like cause that's actually life like who the zero people exist if you you know you can hear your brother's points of view you can hear your mom's points of view you can hear your roommate's points of view you can hear my point of view but like when you're actually not listening you're not listening I think everybody's trying to like control shit that you can't control I'm about to change open door policy and force time with everybody cause it's my job to be a video audio experience a top 100 global podcast and host of hashtag ask Gary Vee a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook how much time did you have for yourself on Saturday and Sunday that was not working every minute tell me the truth a lot a lot I know so that's the punchline right now imagine this when I tell you this I'm not your career this weekend than I did in my entire 20's combined oh shit okay okay so in less than 8 years when I'm a millionaire by 25 I'll come shake your hand I promise you that statement itself made me 100% guarantee that you won't so there's no doubt that Gary Vee is trying to build a brand off of his accomplishments it's just what it is there are many many serial entrepreneurs or successful people who don't necessarily create a website that explains all of their success and put themselves out there for millions to see to build an audience of millions but Gary on the other hand is very intentionally trying to build a following trying to get millions of people to watch his content but I do think that Gary Vee is much smarter than other get rich quick gurus who oversell their authority with material items Gary doesn't sell his authority with all of these material items he uses no materialistic opulence imagery that would make him seem unapproachable no he's just a regular guy like you and me but he gained all of this success and respect and he's gonna help you do it too prove your parents wrong do you want to love your mom or do you want to hate your mom do you want to love your mom or do you want to hate your mom good you doing what she wants you to do is the easiest way for you to hate your mom not love your mom say no to the status quo say no to all the haters and all of the negativity he's gonna help you do it and he's gonna motivate you through that because he is just like you so Gary Vaynerchuk's story goes on to talk more about his early life how he's considers himself a pure bred entrepreneur and how he rose to success and to summarize it Gary V talks about how growing up he had all of these different business ventures and somehow many of them even when he was super young turned out pretty successful like selling baseball cards but his real success definitely did not hit until he inherited his family's wine business which was already a 3 million dollar company and undoubtedly he was able to grow this business even further into a 60 million dollar business that's incredible that's a great accomplishment there's no denying that though I will say being able to inherit a successful or at least fairly successful pretty successful 3 million is a lot for many people business is very very different than coming from nothing and those two situations require very different scenarios very different approaches also whenever someone feels the need to overstate their success to people or over explain it it always reminds me of Andy from the office and how he needed to constantly state that he went to Cornell to either compensate for his insecurities or simply because he had this compulsatory need for a pat on the back I'm not saying it's inherently wrong to state your success I mean if you got it why not flaunted but I do wonder if overstating such success is a way to create a shield of authority of some sort or like a rose colored shade around someone everything that they say is warped under this identity of a highly successful person and now doesn't sound as much like your drunk middle age aunt at a family reunion trying to give you very generic advice about your life do it makes you happy don't worry about your parents negativity from a human is literally probably the worst thing another human can do to a human and normally it's your mom that means you value their opinion have the conversation with the person that's holding you back the reason most people who are listening right now are not doing that thing is they're worried about the opinion of somebody usually their mother usually their father and the reality is is that your spouse may be the person holding you back and you have to have that conversation cut him off regardless because Gary V created this sense of authority around him that he was a successful person all of a sudden his advice means a little bit more he's able to fill up a stadium for seminars he's able to sell out books he's able to build more awareness about these other brands that he's creating as well as his own brand and there is a lot of power and value in that and I really wonder if all of this wonderful unique advice that Gary V gives three words you're gonna die yeah that's inspiration do something about it love you too take care would be as valuable to people if it wasn't for his experience and his sense of authority so good old Gary has established himself as a sense of authority but how has he become so admired by his audience by disguising self promotion as an act of selfless giving you know there is no funnel it's a big deal I think that's why I'm winning unlike almost every other business whether tactical or motivational and so I'm giving so purely that I think subconsciously people understand that and I think I'm entertaining for me I want to be the entrepreneur they give back to the most entrepreneurs I think this is best summed up in the interview done with Gary V by Campaign US in which it says all of this Gary V stuff the vlogs, the books the motivational talks Vaynerchuk sees it as an act of philanthropy the quote from him says you know I think some of this stuff where I'm selfless and sharing my thoughts and ideas and trying to help and all the time I spend on interacting with those people versus putting them into my own selfish behaviors that's my way of giving back the way he worded that entire sentence is extremely fascinating but once again it's just not true that he's getting absolutely nothing out of building this guru brand it's just not true the best person to sell to is the person who doesn't know that they're being sold to nothing's free dude if you don't see the product you are the product and I can't help but wonder if all of these people who truly believe that they're being just helped by Gary and not sold to are actually secretly being sold to nevertheless this whole concept of selfless giving it causes this level of admiration from his audience they begin to care more and more about Gary V because he's giving so much to them but undoubtedly Gary V gives his audience something something really really powerful hope I really want to get into college why? first of all you're gonna collect debt and unless you go to a top 5% school the jobs that are available to you on the back end of that are garbage I think the biggest thing that a kid with this much hard luck needs to think about is can you attach yourself to a good situation where you pay your dues to build a foundation hope that they can reach success hope that Gary's advice will get them there we all need motivation every now and again and if listening to a Gary V live stream or watching a video of his for free helps you stay motivated and keep going that's great, that's wonderful there's nothing wrong with that the only thing that worries me is whether or not Gary V is giving out false hope or very simple solutions to very complex problems and I also worry if maybe his audience is a little bit too young to understand the nuance between taking advice with a grain of salt so let's examine Gary V's TikToks to see what it is exactly he's preaching before watching Gary V's TikToks I want to point out the phrase toxic positivity so let's look at what toxic positivity is the phrase toxic positivity is the culture of portraying yourself as being happy no matter what you're basically switched off to anything which might be viewed as negative it's also the idea of encouraging people to always see the bright side and not open up about anything bad negativity no matter where it comes from is always wrong always I promise you if you focus go find positive real shit because smoking doesn't mean shit negative parenting doesn't mean shit just focus it's all look for the positivity I promise you it's fucking wrong negativity from a human is literally probably the worst thing another human can do to a human and normally it's your mom Gary also creates most of his content and motivational topics around children or teens or young adults and dealing with parents going to college whether or not they should go he's obviously targeting a young audience a very young audience it's his advice as valuable as he's making it seem or are the people who are watching it just young enough to not fully understand the advice hey Gary how do I deal with my parents during quarantine with compassion love respect and understanding while not putting yourself in a shit spot tiktok listen to me you deal with your parents by understanding one day they're gonna be gone that if they didn't have sex at the right time you wouldn't live and that they've got their own ideologies and usually fear in how they want you to live your life go with love but if they're abusive and super negative by going somewhere else to quarantine love or if it's evil out well I do think a lot of that advice was really harmless dealing with your parents in quarantine and all of that I do want to just know that like when you're a teen things can be a lot more complicated than love or evil and a lot of people when they are teens do think at different points that their parents are evil we've all felt that way I just don't know if it's healthy to boil down very complex teen problems into simple solutions the second you don't give a fuck about what they think is the second you don't have to do that is the second you find the process you like and then miraculously 10 years later you do have the success 100 you practice that's why everyone's impatient because they want the success the shit to show people that they won about competitiveness and insecurity do you think there's a fine line between those two things and how do you think that's helped I think it's helped me the most if you are lucky enough to have self-esteem slightly higher than security and you layer competitiveness above it you now have the ingredients for success I think if insecurity is greater than self-esteem you're fucking dead yeah nothing is as simple as Gary makes it out to be in these really short videos yet it seems like people are really listening to these videos and actually taking in this advice why is he trying so hard to market to children the editing the zoom ins the hey kids school isn't always that great parents are sometimes mean do what makes you happy like these are really basic advice but they're all kind of from a child or a young person's perspective why is he targeting kids you could say it's from a very authentic perspective of like I want to influence the youth I want to help them but to so aggressively target them why Gary v even in his own advice often contradicts himself negativity no matter where it comes from always always okay so in less than 8 years when I'm a millionaire by 25 I'll come shake your hand I promise you that statement itself made me 100% guaranteed that you won't I'm here to like bring love not hate I hate Michael Jordan with my entire heart I hate when people argue with me on this you can separate respecting somebody's skill set and thinking they're a piece of fucking shit he's like be patient but also work hard and hustle as much as you can all the time 24 7 to get those results he talks about hate and negativity so much and how bad any sort of negativity is yet even to his own audience members he will say things that are kind of negative so does he mean that negativity is bad only when it's critical of him and the advice that he's giving overall as you can see none of it just makes any sense I cannot find any few core messages besides don't care what other people think and college isn't always necessary at the end of the day I'd much rather listen to a wine mom telling me to live laugh love then to Gary V telling me how to get success yet that success doesn't matter and just be happy overall Gary V is the basic but I think Gary V highlights the core beliefs of the American dream in some really dangerous ways he acts self made even though he technically started out with a three million dollar business he acts as if his success is repeatable as if timing market conditions luck and even constant and consistent luck in the investments that you make even after your initial success aren't all very important aspects of success much of which cannot be replicated or easily recreated he tries to boil everything down into simple formulas even simple formulas that constantly contradict one another and tell you to ignore anything bad in pursuit of the positivity and that can lead many people down a very bad path especially people who are young and impressionable and may not understand that not all advice can apply to their specific situation besides toxic positivity there's another aspect of Gary V's teachings that are extremely toxic this idea that if you just put your head down and work all of the success will come to you ultimately working harder than anybody else is the key to success hustle is putting it all on a line period simple you know like the way it sounds fuck it because it's the truth because you're just not working hustle is a word to so many people even to some of my hardcore fans I'm sorry to call you out but I follow you like you follow me and people talk about the hustle but then you're talking about your six o'clock you know happy hour drink here we are in holidays and everybody is going to their holiday party and I've got one meeting coming up right now two meetings after that reviewing all my email and so while everybody's drinking some goddamn eggnog I continue the hustle and so you can say it or you can do it but I highly recommend you do both stop crying and just keep hustling hustle is the most important word ever what are you doing tonight the business development meeting tonight after 10 p.m. that's hilarious I normally and you live in New York so this is 1 a.m. for you Taylor I gave up my entire 20s all of them imagine not doing anything fun or going anywhere for the next eight years including Saturday and Sunday that's what I did from 22 to 30 every day I spent 15 hours a day in a liquor store thought about a liquor store now imagine this when I tell you this I spent more down time on not your career this weekend than I did in my entire 20s combined once again that's kind of basic advice but also what happens when people take this advice too seriously that all you need for success is to work hard there's a video by someone named Casey Vander that talks about why he stopped watching Gary Vee so let's watch that why I hate Gary Vaynerchuk okay so let me give you some background about me one of the reasons why I started fitness coaching and why I started my fitness products and my coaching business in the first place was because of Gary Vee okay so I watched a video when I was about 20, 21 years old and the video was titled 6 minutes for 60 years of your life you know for essentially 2 years after that I've been putting out content daily I've been vlogging every day I've been podcasting every single day you should put out unlimited pieces of content and I think Gary Vee is probably one of the worst mentors to follow possibly out there when you see him talk when you hear him talk when you watch a Gary Vee video at the end of it you're left with this feeling of hope when I was hustling like Gary Vee likes to call it all it did was left me tired okay hustling only gets you so far what does Gary Vee consider hustling he thinks you should work 18 hours a day maybe 20 hours a day if you can post on instagram and youtube and facebook about your business all day and then hopefully an audience finds you and hopefully you're gonna get business growth out of that the metrics and the cold hard facts that it takes to grow a business he doesn't talk about you know about setting up the lead gen software he doesn't talk about actually how to hire how to manage you know how to actually scale your business how to have a product that's really really good okay he doesn't talk about any of that I think that's a really important aspect of this if Gary Vee were to just talk about business and advertising and growing a business and all of those really key points and things that maybe he actually learned from his business but the thing is that's not interesting and it's not engaging and unfortunately I don't think that a lot of young people want to listen to that as much as they want to listen to you can do it your parents don't know what they're talking about you don't need to go to college do what makes you happy and that's the saddest part about all of this is Gary Vee and the way that he gives out his advice is extremely extremely vague I haven't talked about this much but I did start a tech startup when I was 19 years old made a lot of mistakes but also I learned that there's so much complexity when it comes to targeting an audience building an audience and being able to grow that it's so intense that's not really an aspect that Gary Vee goes into in great detail so he gives people all this hope and motivation that they can do it enough to start a venture but when it comes to actually knowing what to do with it once you've started it everything is vague and blurry and really has no actual meaning now that wouldn't be a big issue if it wasn't the way that Gary Vee frames his advice from this position of authority teaching you everything you need to know inspiring you to do great things yet not giving you any sort of details as to how to make those great things happen it's a dangerous thing for young people to be taught this inspiration and put your head down and work hard and you're just working yourself into the ground do you have any regrets in your life as a teenager I was so committed to my business at 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and I mean so committed the Saturday morning when I went to my dad's liquor store to work or I did a baseball card show I wouldn't call it a regret but in hindsight, 92% of that time on working that number could have been maybe 75 like I probably should have went to a couple of more parties burnout is a very real and very debilitating issue I'm sure a lot of people watching this have experienced burnout I experienced burnout a year ago it destroyed me my hope, my self-esteem and my self-image when you create this mentality of push, push, work harder and harder it creates a toxic work ethic sometimes we all need a break to dive into creative thinking or critical thinking think about what we're doing analyze it, evaluate just doing is not always good trust me start up where I was just doing constantly and I crashed and burned, the start up crashed and burned and it didn't even really ever get off the ground toxic work ethic also tells you to ignore glaring warning signs of failure because if you just keep working hard you're gonna get through that or this is what makes you happy keep doing it, ignore the haters of course intuition is important going after what you want is important going after your dreams is important but that doesn't mean throwing all sorts of critical thinking or constructive or valid criticism completely out the window but the thing is you cannot have positivity without understanding the other side, true positivity if you're only looking to the bright side if you're only looking to the positive things is that a true positive outlook or is that just straight up delusion and sometimes, regardless you just fail the timing in the market isn't right you're unable to find a core audience there's so many variables in a successful business that are so hard to control and there's actually really no way of controlling every aspect of a business, failing is an important part of life and you can learn from your failures but that doesn't mean you should actively ignore warning signs or ignore any sort of critical thought because it could be perceived as negative in the face of working hard and hustling so overall, building a brand is a business it's a business, building a following is a business there's something to gain from an audience who's very devoted and interested in you and what you have to say there always is, whether it's AdSense, whether it's a following that you can translate into other sales, like book sales which might be little but they're definitely not nothing, might be more awareness for a brand that you're building, it might be just a personal validation and a personal pat on the back that you are someone of importance or value that has something valuable to offer to the world, social media has become a business and the reason why a multi-millionaire is focusing so hard on building an audience of loyal young followers is not for nothing and overall, if Gary V is giving dangerous advice toxic advice to build a following under the guise of a fake philanthropic brand well Gary V can Gary leave