What I learned from dinner with Gary Vaynerchuk...

16 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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Ryan Daniel Moran recounts three takeaways from a recent dinner with Gary Vaynerchuk: (1) Gary predicts roughly five years before AI "completely takes over our lives" rather than within 12 months, citing slow corporate adoption; (2) Gary's willingness to "play big" stems from his background and lack of fear of losing everything, freeing him to take large risks; (3) Gary's content strategy is to "post for his own soul," creating content he personally wants to publish, resulting in an authentic personal brand aimed at people who "vibe" with him. The clip serves as a brief summary of those conversational insights.

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January 16, 2024.

About five years.

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Here are three things that Gary Vee told me at dinner last week. Number one, most people think that AI is going to take over the world in the next 12 months. Gary believes that we have five years before AI completely takes over our lives. This is because big companies are still figuring out how to use this, and it's going to take some time for them to incorporate it into their strategy. Number two, the reason why he's able to play so big is because he's not afraid if it all goes to zero. Since Gary came from nothing, he's not afraid of losing everything. And he doesn't take it as a personal hit to his ego if a business doesn't work out and allows him to play his game and play it as big as he wants to because he's not embarrassed if it doesn't work out. And number three, when it comes to content creation, Gary's rule is to post for his own soul. Gary's entire strategy is just to post things that he wants to put out in the world that he wants to create. And as a result, his personal brand is just a genuine extension of himself. So he's never thinking about what the platform wants, he's thinking about what the people want. And the people who vibe with him are the ones who are following his work.