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Pearls of wisdom from @garyvee

Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) is a South by Southwest regular, and his sessions still pack a ballroom. At SxSW 2017, Vaynerchuk’s session was a 100% Q&A format. The format lent itself less to a blog post recap, and more to a collection of quotable moments and takeaways. Here are a few that I walked away with, and a few more from the Twitterverse:

  • Gary is skeptical about the hype around consumer VR. “Consumer VR is still a long ways off”.
  • Add value by making things more simple. We like to build complicated, but shouldn’t.
  • “99.999% of companies compete in a commodities market. That is why I am obsessed with brand”.
  • “The more you can act like a media company and less like an advertiser, the more effective you will be with your message”
  • The people who care less about what other people think of them are the people who will do best in life
  • Creativity… not math… will set good interactive apart.
  • We are pushing too much young talent towards entrepreneurship. We need the talents of the best CFOs and Project Managers too
  • Negative people are the loudest, and happy people are clamming up. Be happy and loud. Let that be the difference!