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SUCCESS STORY THE UNIVERSITY OF ADVERSITY We all know people with drive. But when we see someone flaunting a neversay-die work ethic that garners a string of major successes, we want to know more. We want to know how exactly such success, or even how such an extreme work ethic, is achieved. Maybe their drive owes to humble roots, maybe childhood discouragement, or maybe it’s pain and struggle that has led to a heady cocktail of resolve and resourcefulness. Whatever got them there, mix with that killer instinct and you have something you can take to the bank. “It came from being an immigrant,” Vaynerchuk says. He spent the first three years of his life in the former Soviet Union, now Belarus, before migrating to the Unites States and settling down in New Jersey with his family. “It came from watching my mom and dad work their faces off. My mom, three kids, no extra help, laundry, cooking, cleaning up. My dad, never around, always working, always. My family came to this country with nothing. So maybe it’s a little bit of gratitude and guilt. I just have the DNA in me.”
SUCCESS STORY But this DNA did not translate into a drive to achieve straight A’s in school. Rather, it did the opposite. “I didn’t speak the language in the country that I lived in. I was short. I was a bad student.” Taken together, these factors may have tipped the scales to creating his overwhelming desire to succeed. Sadly, for those hoping to emulate Vaynerchuk’s success, you can’t retroactively engineer these factors any more than you can alter the genes that decided your hair color. It seems that being driven in business was, for Vaynerchuk, not necessarily a choice, but an aspect of his personality that was always there. “Even at a young age, I was slinging stuff,” he says. “Blow pops, baseball cards, lemonade stands, washing cars.” “I never knew a world where I could work for somebody else,” he says. And five years ago, that drive culminated in VaynerMedia, a digital agency which focuses on storytelling across platforms. He has since built up to a $100 million business. With a staff of 600, it is now home to offices across America. You couldn’t fault him on confidence. It’s this brash quality that has earned Vaynerchuk his share of detractors over the years. Yet part of his skill is being able to harness his sheer exuberance and make it work for him. We now live in an age where shameless self-promotion is less a liability than a necessity, and it was this that guaranteed his first win in video media. He says he was around 12 or 13 when he decided his path in life. “Back in sixth and seventh grade, I was like, ‘I’m a businessman,’ and I would stay up as long as my parents let me working on my baseball card business.”
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