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==''Net-Worth''==
==''Net-Worth''==
In 2016, Vaynerchuk's advertising agency VaynerMedia grossed $100 million in revenue, giving his company an evaluation north of $300 million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.adweek.com/agencyspy/vaynermedia-cfbro-scott-heydt-leaves-the-agency-after-3-plus-years/121433|title=VaynerMedia #CFbrO Scott Heydt Leaves the Agency After 3-Plus Years|website=www.adweek.com|access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref> Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with early stage investments in web apps such as in Uber, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, Facebook, Songza, Afterschool, and Houseparty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://angel.co/gary|title=Gary Vaynerchuk|website=angel.co|access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref> The tech-entrepreneur is also represented by [https://www.caaspeakers.com/gary-vaynerchuk/ CAA for public keynotes and speeches]. In a 2016 interview on Grant Cardone's Power Players<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://grantcardonetv.com/video/powerplayers/garyvee/|title=Gary Vaynerchuk and Grant Cardone {{!}} Grant Cardone TV|website=grantcardonetv.com|access-date=2016-12-09}}</ref>, Vaynerchuk states he gets paid $100,000 a speech, and has made $17 million in the last year. A $12 million dollar increase from a 2014 interview on TheBlaze<ref>{{Citation|last=TheBlaze|title=Author and Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk {{!}} The Cain Conversation|date=2014-01-17|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsqaqRBTj_s|accessdate=2016-12-09}}</ref>, in which Vaynerchuk states he makes $3-5 million depending on what he does with his investments. Given his ownership in VaynerMedia, his investments in Uber, Twitter, Tumblr, and Venmo, and a yearly income of $17 million dollars, Vaynerchuk's net-worth can be estimated to be $50-$100 million USD.
In 2016, Vaynerchuk's advertising agency VaynerMedia grossed $100 million in revenue, giving his company an evaluation north of $300 million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.adweek.com/agencyspy/vaynermedia-cfbro-scott-heydt-leaves-the-agency-after-3-plus-years/121433|title=VaynerMedia #CFbrO Scott Heydt Leaves the Agency After 3-Plus Years|website=www.adweek.com|access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref> Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with early stage investments in web apps such as in Uber, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, Facebook, Songza, Afterschool, and Houseparty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://angel.co/gary|title=Gary Vaynerchuk|website=angel.co|access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref> The tech-entrepreneur is also represented by [https://www.caaspeakers.com/gary-vaynerchuk/ CAA for public keynotes and speeches]. In a 2016 interview on Grant Cardone's Power Players<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://grantcardonetv.com/video/powerplayers/garyvee/|title=Gary Vaynerchuk and Grant Cardone {{!}} Grant Cardone TV|website=grantcardonetv.com|access-date=2016-12-09}}</ref>, Vaynerchuk states he gets paid $100,000 a speech, and has made $17 million in the last year. A $12 million dollar increase from a 2014 interview on TheBlaze<ref>{{Citation|last=TheBlaze|title=Author and Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk {{!}} The Cain Conversation|date=2014-01-17|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsqaqRBTj_s|accessdate=2016-12-09}}</ref>, in which Vaynerchuk states he makes $3-5 million depending on what he does with his investments. Given his ownership in VaynerMedia, his investments in Uber, Twitter, Tumblr, and Venmo, and a yearly income of $17 million dollars.


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Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk
Born (1975-11-14) November 14, 1975 (age 48)
Babruysk, Soviet Union
Other namesGaryvee
Known forEntrepreneurship, social media, angel investing, wine education
Notable workWine Library TV The #AskGaryVee Show
Websitegaryvaynerchuk.com
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Gary Vaynerchuk (born Gennady Vaynerchuk[1][2] on November 14, 1975, in Babruysk, former Soviet Union (now Belarus)) is an serial entrepreneur, CEO, investor, author, public speaker, and internet personality.

Background

Vaynerchuk was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States in 1978, after the Soviet Union signed the SALT I agreements which allowed Soviet Jews to leave the country in exchange for American wheat.[3] Gary and eight family members lived in a studio-apartment in Queens, New York, and had to split pieces of toilet paper in order to save money[4]. After living in Queens, Vaynerchuk and his family moved to Edison, New Jersey.[5] After graduating from Mount Ida College in Newton, MA, Gary transformed his father's Springfield, Union County, New Jersey liquor store into a retail wine store named Wine Library,[6] and in 2006 started the video blog Wine Library TV, a daily internet webcast on the subject of wine.

In August 2011, Vaynerchuk announced he would be stepping away from his daily wine video series to focus his attention on VaynerMedia, the digital ad agency he co-founded with his brother in the Spring of 2009.

Career

Wine Library

After graduating from college in 1999 Vaynerchuk assumed day to day control of his father's liquor store, then called Shopper's Discount Liquors.[7] Through a combination of ecommerce, email marketing, and aggressive pricing, Vaynerchuk grew the business from 1 million to $50 million a year by 2005.[7][8]

VaynerMedia

In 2009, Gary, along with his brother AJ Vaynerchuk, founded VaynerMedia, a social media-focused digital agency.[9] The company focuses on providing social media and strategy services to Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric, Anheuser-Busch, Mondelez, and PepsiCo.[9][10] In 2015, VaynerMedia was named one of AdAge's A-List agencies.[10]

VaynerRSE

With an investment background that includes exits in both Tumblr and Buddy Media, Vaynerchuk started a $25 Million investment fund with RSE Ventures' Matt Higgins, named VaynerRSE. The fund focuses on consumer technology and acts as an incubator in addition to traditional angel investing.[11]

VaynerSports

In June 2016 Gary Vaynerchuk started his partnership with a sports agency to create VaynerSports to add his social media and digital agency zest to sports athletes' career and future.[12]

Food Loves Tech

In 2016 VaynerMedia funded and launched Food Loves Tech, a New York City based event that showcases emerging technologies in food innovation, food dispensing technology and food production.[13] The inaugural event included guest celebrity chefs Jose Andres and Pasquale Cozzolino, with exhibitors that included the June Intelligent Oven and the BeeHex 3D pizza printer.[14]

Youtube and Facebook Video Series

Wine Library TV

New Media Expo 2008
Left: with iJustine & Leo Laporte  Right: with Ben Parr, Ezarik, et al.

Wine Library TV (WLTV or The Thunder Show) (2006–2011) was a video blog hosted by Vaynerchuk on Youtube, featuring wine reviews and advice on wine appreciation. Episodes consisted of wine tastings along with other wine related topics. The show debuted on February 21, 2006 and was produced on a daily basis at the Wine Library store in Springfield, New Jersey. Episodes taped Monday through Thursday usually took place on a desk in Vaynerchuk's office, normally tasting three or four wines, and the Friday episode took place on Vaynerchuk's office couch, tasting usually only one wine and answering questions submitted via his Facebook application Ask Gary. Each show was watched by up to 90,000 viewers.[15] Vaynerchuk appeared on the cover of the December 2008 issue of Mutineer Magazine, launching the "Mutineer Interview" series.[16]

Vaynerchuk gave his impressions and rates wines using the 100-point scale. As an outspoken critic of numerical scores, he acknowledged his hypocrisy in using them.[17][18]

While typically a one-man show, guests were occasionally featured on the program. Celebrity guests included Jancis Robinson,[15] Heidi Barrett, George M. Taber, Kevin Rose, Maynard James Keenan, Michael Steinberger, Ingrid Hoffmann, Timothy Ferriss, Jim Cramer of CNBC's Mad Money, Kermit Lynch, Wayne Gretzky, and Dick Vermeil.[19]

After 1,000 episodes of Wine Library TV, the show was retired in March 2011,[20] replaced by a very similar video podcast called The Daily Grape, with a slightly shorter format of only two wine reviews, and fewer guests.[citation needed]

On August 23, 2011 he announced on Daily Grape that he was retiring from wine video blogging.[21]

Obsessed TV

Vaynerchuk teamed up with Samantha Ettus in 2009 to create and produce Obsessed TV, a web talk show. Together they interviewed 75 celebrities and notables, including Mark Bittman, Al Roker, and Jill Stuart.[22] The format of the show was a 30-40 minute in-depth interview with Samantha Ettus followed by wine-focused 3–4 minutes with Vaynerchuk at the end.[23][24] The show ended in December 2009.[25]

The #AskGaryVee Show

The #AskGaryVee Show is a YouTube series that Vaynerchuk began on July 31, 2014.[26]

#DailyVee

The DailyVee is a YouTube series that Vaynerchuk began on December, 4, 2015.[27] The Facebook and Youtube vlog series follows Vaynerchuk in his daily experiences as an entrepreneur and CEO of VaynerMedia. Vaynerchuk states the series is the truest form of his entrepreneurial journey, and documents his 18 hour work days of building businesses and helping other people[28], which he refers to as his ambition to build a "Honey Empire". On November 20th, 2016 on episode 86 of DailyVee, Gary announced that DailyVee would in fact, become a daily-vlog, publishing the series on a daily basis.

Public Speaking

Gary is an enthusiastic public speaker with a unique, dynamic, and colloquial presentation style. He generally speaks on topics of enterpreneurship and online marketing and has been the keynote speaker at many large events and conferences including: Inc 500 Seminar (2011), Inbound (2012), Vistage (2015), SXSW (2016), Inbound (2016), and many more.

Books

Crush It!

In March 2009, Vaynerchuk signed a 10-book deal with HarperStudio for over $1,000,000 and released the first book, Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash in on your Passion, in October 2009.[29] In the first weeks of its release Crush It! climbed to #1 on the Amazon Best Seller list for Web Marketing books. It also opened at #2 on the New York Times Hardcover Advice bestseller list and #7 on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List.[citation needed][30]Crush It! was featured in ReadWrite, CBS News, and Psychology Today.[31][32][33]

Crush It! was also among the first books released on the Vook platform.[34]

The Thank You Economy

The Thank You Economy reached #2 on the New York Times Hardcover Advice & Misc. Bestseller List, behind Suze Orman's "Money Class."[35]

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right-Hook

In November 2013, Vaynerchuk released his 3rd book, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World, under publisher Harper Business, an imprint of Harper Collins. By highlighting campaigns and strategies that both succeeded and failed across all of the major social media platforms, Vaynerchuk's third installment focused on social media marketing strategies and tactics that businesses should be avoiding or employing. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right-Hook debuted at #1 on the Wall Street Journal's business book list, and at #4 on the New York Times Hardcover Advice bestseller list.[36][37]

Net-Worth

In 2016, Vaynerchuk's advertising agency VaynerMedia grossed $100 million in revenue, giving his company an evaluation north of $300 million.[38] Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with early stage investments in web apps such as in Uber, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, Facebook, Songza, Afterschool, and Houseparty.[39] The tech-entrepreneur is also represented by CAA for public keynotes and speeches. In a 2016 interview on Grant Cardone's Power Players[40], Vaynerchuk states he gets paid $100,000 a speech, and has made $17 million in the last year. A $12 million dollar increase from a 2014 interview on TheBlaze[41], in which Vaynerchuk states he makes $3-5 million depending on what he does with his investments. Given his ownership in VaynerMedia, his investments in Uber, Twitter, Tumblr, and Venmo, and a yearly income of $17 million dollars.

Reaction

Vaynerchuk has been featured in "The New York Times",[42] The Wall Street Journal,[43] GQ, and Time,[44] appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Ellen.[45] Vaynerchuk has been described as "the first wine guru of the YouTube era",[17][46] "the wine world's new superstar",[47] and by Rob Newsom, a Washington State wine maker, "outside of Robert Parker, probably the most influential wine critic in the United States".[48] In the July 2009 Decanter publication of "The Power List" ranking of the wine industry's individuals of influence, Vaynerchuk placed at number 40, citing that he "represents the power of blogging".[49][50]

Awards, honors & press

Bibliography

  • Gary Vaynerchuk's 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World (2008) ISBN 1594868824
  • Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion (2009) ISBN 0061914177
  • The Thank You Economy (2011) ISBN 0061914185
  • Jab, Jab, Jab Right Hook (2013) ISBN 1594868824
  • #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness Hardcover (2016) ISBN 0062273124

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