How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time)

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, we got Gary Vee in the house. Everyone knows Gary Vee because he's all over Twitter and Instagram and LinkedIn, and he's invested in Twitter and Slack and Facebook before they IPO'd.
Gary's fun. We brought him on. Our goal was, let's ask him a bunch of questions that we're genuinely curious about.
Which of those investments actually paid off the most? It was a very, very surprising number. We also talked about what he's excited about now, and we asked him about the mindset and what he noticed hanging out with people like Zuck or Logan Paul or different characters like that. So enjoy this episode with Gary Vee. It's a good one.

**Shaan Puri** (0:40)
Gary, what's going on, man? How are you? I think Shaan saw something recently that you had posted that I thought everyone knew about you. Shaan, what was that thing, the report card?

**Sam Parr** (0:48)
Most podcasts start with an intro. We start with a little ball busting. So I have here Gary's high school report card, which you tweeted out to be fair. So I'm not putting it out there, you didn't already do. But I thought this is kind of amazing. So you tweeted out a picture of your high school report card. I'm just going to read off a few of your achievements.
Gary got a C in ceramics, a D in English, an F in German.
P-E, you got an A. That's the only A you have on this report card, I think. Algebra D, this one's kind of amazing. Speech, which like you are known for speech. You got a D, driver's ed D.
Gary, what a turnaround, what a turnaround. What's your reaction when you see this?

**Gary Vaynerchuk** (1:31)
That a lot of data in the world is dirty. It's fake data. And I think school grades are just not a tremendous indicator of what's going to happen. The speech one is crazy. The report card I tweeted out was the recap of all four years of high school. So little fun facts to build on top of what you just said. I got an F in all four marking periods of German one freshman year. I retook it sophomore year. I got a D in the first marking period and then proceeded to get all Fs. Failed language my freshman and sophomore year. And in the state of New Jersey in 1994, if you did not pass two years of language, you could not graduate high school. So I'm walking to junior year high school and took Spanish one with all these ninth graders as a junior and I had the pressure on and luckily I got Mrs. Senora Kennedy saw something in me and forced me through the system. Otherwise it was over for me.
But yeah, I mean, the speech one really stands out to your point, Sean, right? Like to think that I got a D in speech, which was give a speech in class, right?
Which I did well.
It's just that I told my mom and I talked about this weekend, I literally did not open a book in four years of high school and did zero homework. Everyone who's listening went through school, I think. They would assign a book report. It's not that I did it poorly, it's that I didn't do it.
I literally in four years of high school did zero homework, zero.
Something happened where I just knew that at that point, high school, I was already working my dad's liquor store and selling a lot of baseball cards at shows. This is pre-internet, the world was different. I grew up in an immigrant family.
We just moved to rural New Jersey. When I tell you we lived in our own little four or five person cocoon, my family, we really did. It was very, very, very, in hindsight, deeply immigrant, you know what I mean? My parents didn't have American parent friends. My mom wasn't friends with any of my high school friend's parents. My mom asked me about what I'm doing for college February of my senior year. I was like, Mom, it's over. I'm not going to college. She lost her mind and forced me to go and I got a postcard in the mail from Mount Ida College, filled it out and that's literally how I went to college. I think if I was growing up today, my intuition is that it would have been okay for me not to go to college and it would have just all been handled differently. Honestly, I think my teachers would have said to me, I have a bright future instead of saying what they did back then, which was, you're a loser, you're going to be a garbage man. That was the big thing, Shaan, Sam, in the 90s. Your teachers would tell you, you're going to be a garbage man, which I think is really crazy because actually it's a very good living with a high pay. That's a high pace now.