Gary Vaynerchuk is a visionary serial entrepreneur, investor, and media personality who pioneered the practice of building a personal brand as a core business strategy. Having successfully co-founded and scaled the digital agency VaynerMedia, he is a leading authority on modern marketing, e-commerce, and capturing "underpriced attention" across all digital and social media platforms.
Vaynerchuk’s entrepreneurial instincts were evident from a young age, culminating in his dramatic transformation of his father’s local liquor store into Wine Library, growing its annual sales from $4 million to $60 million through early adoption of e-commerce and digital marketing. This success was amplified by WineLibraryTV (2006), one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube. This experience provided the foundation for his bestselling book, Crush It!, which laid out his core principles on media and communication.
In 2009, Vaynerchuk co-founded VaynerMedia, a full-service digital agency built entirely without outside funding, replicating his success for Fortune 500 clients like PepsiCo and Johnson and Johnson. The agency has built best-in-class capabilities across strategy, creative, paid media, and influencer marketing. This commercial success is paired with his significant early angel investments in tech giants, including Facebook, Twitter, and Uber, cementing his status as a key visionary in the early digital economy.
True to his "purebred entrepreneur" DNA, Vaynerchuk continues to operate as his own media company, producing content daily for his over 44 million combined followers across all major social platforms, and hosting the global top 100 The GaryVee Audio Experience podcast. His highly sought-after speeches deliver a compelling, high-energy message on candid entrepreneurship, the necessity of patience, and the power of consistent content creation to build enduring business influence and scale.
