The Life Story of Gary Vaynerchuck aka Gary Vee In One Art Piece
Our life story art piece for Gary Vaynerchuck
One of my favorite custom pieces to date is for entrepreneur and social media personality Gary Vaynerchuck. As an immigrant to the US, Gary’s story has inspired me of the years and it was an honor to gift him his piece here in Los Angeles. Below is a snippet of Gary’s story and his accompanying art piece:
After immigrating to the US in 1978, Gary Vaynerchuk found himself squeezed in a tiny studio apartment in Queens, NY with 8 family members before relocating to Edison, New Jersey to help his father’s liquor store get off the ground…
From bagging ice for $2/hr to almost single-handedly growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales, Gary then began his own journey of producing original business content as one of the pioneering voices of social media and entrepreneurship online…
Today the 46-year-old runs the rapidly growing multimillion-dollar communications holding company Vayner X which houses Vayner Media, Vayner Commerce, Vayner Speakers, The Sasha Group (named after his dad, Sasha Vayner), Gallery Media Group, One 37 PM, and several more…
On top of that, Gary is also a best-selling author, incredibly intuitive angel investor, public speaker, host of the legendary Vee Con (how incredible was it this past weekend!?!), frontman of a global top 100 business podcast #garyveeaudioexperience, loving family man, board member of Pencils of Promise, longtime Well Member Charity Water, host of the legendary #AskGaryVee shOoOw, founder of Empathy Wines, as well as Creator & CEO of Vee Friends. 😅
He attributes his successes in life so far to his humble beginnings, unshakable self-confidence, nurturing love from his mom, a powerful lasting bond with his dad, being insanely optimistic/positive, treating others well, being immensely grateful for life, and honestly just being an authentic kind-hearted, giving human being. 🙌
I started following Gary back in 2012 and was honored to meet him a decade later at Tom’s Urban Bar in LA a few weeks ago when I told him in person that we’d make this life story art piece for him.
I believe I speak for a lot of us where we feel compelled to give you your flowers while you’re still living, Gary Vee 🌹, even though your life story is far from over… but the legacy you’re leaving on this earth has already made its unshakable mark. And we’re so grateful for the impact it’s continuing to have! 🙏