GaryVee: Leverage AI in Business Now, Before Your Competition Outflanks You | Artificial Intelligence | E416
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
September 14, 2026
AI is reshaping business fast, but GaryVee believes true adoption will happen more slowly than most people expect because he has seen this pattern before. He pushed e-commerce in 1996 and personal branding in 2008, only to watch both take years to become mainstream.
Speakers Hala Taha, Gary Vaynerchuk
TopicsEntrepreneurshipBusinessMarketing
Hala Taha (0:00)
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Gary Vaynerchuk (2:23)
Whoever right now is the most hater, hater, hater on AI, when AI medicine saves their daughter's life.
Hala Taha (2:30)
They're going to love AI.
Gary Vaynerchuk (2:32)
I don't think of this as replacing people. I think it's giving people better weapons. We are posting anywhere between 500 and 1,000 pieces of content a day.
Hala Taha (2:41)
500 a day? I thought it was a week. Damn.
Gary Vaynerchuk (2:44)
It was a week. My team has not gotten smaller.
My team has gotten wildly more efficient with AI.
Hala Taha (2:50)
As AI becomes the next massive wave, Gary is back on YAP to help us navigate it. His message isn't to panic or fight what's coming, but to leverage those tools to become more creative and adaptable. Plus, he reveals the huge business opportunity he believes is still hiding in plain sight.
Gary Vaynerchuk (3:06)
I don't see using AI as a deflation to one's humanity. In fact, solving the world's problems with AI seems like the most human thing one could do.
Hala Taha (3:18)
10 years from the future, where are we at?
Gary Vaynerchuk (3:19)
I think we could see a decline in divorce in 10 years because we've got more vulnerability and more communication.
Hala Taha (3:26)
You don't see us marrying AI robots in 10 years?
Gary Vaynerchuk (3:29)
No, I like that, I do. People having relationships now with their AI agents verbally, I do believe that people are gonna have meaningful relationships with AI. I know that's gonna really trigger a lot of people. Do I think it's out of the question? No.
And do I think it's even probable?
Hala Taha (3:44)
For all the entrepreneurs tuning in, what should they do in the next year?
Gary Vaynerchuk (3:48)
A lot of people don't know what to make, but if you just film everything and then clip it, you could be some of the most famous people in the world. Number one thing I want every entrepreneur to look into is-
Hala Taha (3:58)
Gary, welcome to Young and Profiting podcast.
Gary Vaynerchuk (4:01)
Thanks for having me.
Hala Taha (4:02)
I'm so happy that you are here again. And so, of course, I've been prepping for you all weekend. And when I was listening back to our first interview, something that really surprised me is that we only mentioned AI once. We mentioned ChatGBT in passing.
Gary Vaynerchuk (4:18)
Yes.
Hala Taha (4:19)
And now AI has went from the side conversation to completely the main conversation. You can't go 10 minutes talking marketing and business without mentioning AI.
Gary Vaynerchuk (4:28)
Makes sense.
Hala Taha (4:29)
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