 Gary Vaynerchuk, or as he's better known, Gary Vee, is the chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, as well as the CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the globe. In addition to fronting those powerhouse companies through the VaynerX brand, Gary also owns subsidiaries like Gallery Media Group, which houses lifestyle brands like 1.37pm and PureWow, which reaches an audience of over 90 million unique users. Gary also serves as a partner in the athletic agency VaynerSports and his cannabis-focused branding and marketing agency, Green Street. There is clearly something I'm passionate about, which is seeing things just a hair faster than the normal other person enough to benefit from it. And guys, that's only, like, the half of it. Ever since taking over his family's business, Gary has been making mad bank. But he's probably even more famous for his content creation on YouTube, where he's become one of the biggest influencers in the world, continually entertaining his massive audience with moments like this one. I literally want to die instead of fail. Die. Death. Over. Over the years, Gary has invested in companies like Facebook, Twitter and Uber, becoming a five-time New York Times best-selling author, and gone on to host a top 100 global podcast in the Gary Vee audio experience. And even though he's making crazy amounts of moolah through all these different revenue streams, the man almost never goes crazy when it comes to spending it. In fact, there's practically no information out there about the kind of apartment Gary lives in in New York, and he keeps his Land Rover obsession on the down low because he clearly doesn't like to focus on these parts of his story. If you literally think money is going to unlock your happiness, you're an idiot. I live in a very nice apartment in New York City. Very, very nice. Instead, what he likes to do is show others how they can transform relatively small purchases into something worth a lot more than that. The biggest thing I look for in a garage sale game is town-wide sales. That's where the entire town gives permits or permission for people to have garage sales. And so you're able to hit 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 garage sales in two or three hours. Makes it much more efficient. Whether it's baseball cards, hot wheels or wrestling action figures, Gary loves to take what other people consider trash and turn them into something worth thousands of dollars. Brutus the barber beefcake, these two are tag team champions if you don't know. That being said, he does have one giant purchase in mind. In fact, you could say that his entire career is all about achieving this one overriding goal. This is why it's so important to figure out what you want to happen. I would never be running this company if what I didn't want to happen is to buy the New York Jets. Gary's natural talent for selling his critical eye for content has helped him achieve massive success so far. Amassing a net worth in the $150 million range. And while that's an absolute crap ton of money, when it comes to buying an NFL franchise, the question is, will it be enough? Today we're going to investigate Gary Vee's net worth and find out. What's up guys, it's your girl Azalea Hart back at it with a brand new episode of The Rich Life. This one taking a look at the wealth of financial advisor and entrepreneur superstar Gary Vee. We recently took a look at Gary's life story over on Before They Were Famous. So if you enjoy this video and you want to learn more, be sure to check it out. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram at AzaleaZoe to let me know how you're enjoying our content. Alright, let's get into this story. Being most well known as an influencer, Gary argues that what sets him apart from other influencers is a simple fact that he doesn't need to be one. He told Inc. I am so business talented that being Gary Vee is my side hustle. I do not need to make money by being an influencer. Whether that is selling people courses or t-shirts or using it as a way to get speaking fees or to get clients for VaynerMedia, I need none of it. If I were completely not an influencer, VaynerMedia would still be a $100 million company. Just like Wine Library was built into a massive company by a 20-year-old with zero influence. Gary Vee was born on November 14th in 1975 in Brabhus, Belarus in the former USSR. His parents found their way stateside in 1978 thanks to an exchange program and his entire extended family, which totalled eight people, shared a studio apartment in Queens. Gary's father Sasha began working at a relative's liquor store in New Jersey. He would go on to buy the store outright and over time saved up enough money to move his family to Edison, New Jersey. Around this time is when a young Gary began his love affair with businesses. He kicked things off by ripping flowers out of his neighbor's yards and then used his natural charm to sell them right back. His next gig was to open up his own lemonade stand at the tender age of seven and soon after that he found his way into the madcap world of trading and selling baseball cards. You know the sixth grade baseball card club in Edison, New Jersey changed the course of my life. I got very into this world. I'm one of the great all-time terrible students because I spent 99% of my time reading Beckett and Tough Stuff and trying to buy cards. Gary was able to make thousands of dollars in one weekend multiple times at the collector's market but things would change for him after being forced to work at his pop's liquor store. Luckily Gary is always someone looking to make the best of a bad situation so while attending college Gary discovered the internet and quickly came to the realization that it would be a powerful tool when it came to selling stuff. He convinced his father to let him build a website for shoppers discount liquors and that's how Wine Library was born. I was passionate like just obsessed with building my family business for them and people liked to razz me like easy for you to say you were given a liquor store. I wasn't I built a business for my family and left with no economics because emotionally my parents perfectly parented me. Gary succeeded in giving back to his parents by taking his family's business which was making around three million in sales and increased that to over 60 million in just five years. Then in 2006 Gary started his next big venture, content creation on YouTube. He created the Wine Library TV series which turned him into the equivalent of an online rock star. Thanks to this huge rise of fame he was able to foster relationships with powerful people like Kevin Rose, Evie Williams and Mark Zuckerberg. These connections led to Gary investing in startup companies like Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr earning him hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. I've come to now learn that I'm looking for both. I have to believe in what the product is going to do, the mission, the opportunity but I also have to believe I've seen some good ones that were just so right but the person that was driving the business couldn't execute it. During the stage in his life Gary also began touring around the country as a public speaker earning as much as three to five million dollars a year simply in speaking fees. These speaking engagements led to Gary signing a one million dollar book deal with Harper Collins and he has since gone on to write five best-selling works. In 2009 Gary and his brother AJ founded VaynerMedia an agency focused on helping brands tell stories on social media. By securing clients like the New York Jets and the NHL they were able to scale their business at a rapid pace outgrowing three offices and creating over 500 jobs in just six years. VaynerMedia would go on to sign clients like General Electric and PepsiCo and by 2016 they were reporting profits of 100 million in revenue. By 2020 that had increased to 130 million. So that's how Gary V makes his money. Now let's take a look at how he likes to spend it. Unlike other people we've taken a look at in this series Gary isn't about spending his money unless it's something he thinks will end up making him more money in the long run. You know collectibles like these. Yep Gary V is super into card collecting and over the past year or so the market has blown the F up. Just so everybody knows again I put in six months of homework before I put out my first post of like there's something going on here. It takes a ton of education. There's an ungodly amount of mistakes that I see my friends making who I've talked to for an hour by buying a qualifier PSA. Gary couldn't be happier to share his knowledge with his millions of fans but he doesn't just stop at cards. I paid 50 bucks for all the cars. 50 bucks for all the cars and this one is just 50 bucks by itself just this one. In that clip he took what most other people would consider junk and flipped it into more than $1,000. Hot Wheels. Man it's moments like these that make me think I'm living my whole life wrong. Since I know you guys want to know what kind of card Gary be driving around well I'll let you in on what I found out if you look closely enough in some of his videos especially his trash talk episodes where he drives around looking for deals you'll notice that Gary owns a couple different Landrovers like an LR4 and a Discovery. Both of these vehicles retail for around $50,000 so even though they are luxury vehicles with more than enough space for all of Gary's trash he's not exactly breaking the bank by owning them. Alright so now that we've gotten a taste of how Gary both earns and spends his money does the $160 million net worth pass the smell test? I'd say so. I mean from what I've seen researching this guy's life $160 million sounds like the base floor of his net worth if you ask me so that begs the question can Gary be afford to buy the New York Jets? Well the answer is surprisingly not yet. Once upon a time you could buy an NFL team for $100. No really the owners of the Chicago Bears did just that in 1920 but hey that was 100 years ago. Flash forward 80 years in the Seattle Seahawks were sold in 1997 for $200 million but today you need even more than that in fact you need around $1.2 billion just to start the conversation. The Jets are valued at a hair over that price which means if Gary wanted to buy the franchise he'd have to leverage a sizable amount of money from his companies and risk debt and potential layoffs. Not something he'd be willing to do. Gary knows that he's not where he needs to be yet financially speaking to accomplish his dreams but he's also never going to stop trying. His master plan is to earn enough money to own the team by the time he's 68 years old which gives him about 23 more years. Hey at the rate he's been going I wouldn't count this dude out. Alright guys I think we'll bring an end to this rich life video right here what did you think? 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