Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk is a commendable entrepreneur. He started with his family wine business and became a wine critic. Later he became well-known as an author and speaker. He has also a communications company named VaynerX.

Quick bio

Gary Vaynerchuk was born on 14th November, 1975 in Babrujsk, Soviet Union. Today that place is a part of Belarus. His father is Sasha Vaynerchuk and his mother’s name is Tamara Vaynerchuk. When he was only three years old, his family settled in New Jersey, USA. At first they lived in Queens. Later the family went to Edison, New Jersey.

Career

In Edison, he used to work at a lemonade-stand. He had an income thousands of dollars for trading baseball cards on weekends. He also involved in his family's retail-wine business at the age of 14. After graduation from Mount Ida College, he joined his father’s liquor store and made it much bigger. He started the ‘Wine Library TV’ a video blogging on YouTube in 2006 which became immensely popular. He introduced the online selling of wine. He is the CEO of VaynerX.

From The Wall Street Journal, it is known that Gallery Media Group was built by Vaynerchuk in 2017. First it was named as The Gallery. It is a sister company of VaynerMedia.

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