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Gary Vee didn't have Gary Vee to mentor him on his career.

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I did. I do right now. We all do.

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And so many of us will pass Gary. And I don't think Gary wants.

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The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game.

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This podcast, the game, is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned on my way to

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building acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. My hope is that you use the lessons

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to grow your business and maybe someday soon partner with us to get to a hundred million

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dollars and beyond. I hope you share and enjoy.

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I see this thing that happens all the time and in different lenses people approach them differently.

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So like when you are a kid and you learn arithmetic, first you learn your numbers and then you learn

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how to add and then you know you level up and you learn how to multiply and then you level up

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from there and you learn you know how to do algebra. When you get to algebra you don't think

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man my arithmetic teacher is a fucking idiot. I can't believe they didn't teach me this stuff.

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It's like dude you weren't ready and you had to have the arithmetic in order to get to the multiplication.

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It's not that that teacher was an idiot. It's that that was the sequence and so when you have

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a first teacher that teaches you the basics and you have more advanced teacher later it doesn't mean

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you should shit on your first teacher. It's like that person got you ready to receive the next thing

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and I think that when I was earlier on my career I definitely did the other way. You know what I mean?

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I was just like this guy didn't know anything. This guy is the guy rather than seeing it like you

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would see any other thing that you'd have in school right and so that was the first point that I wanted

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to cover. The next point is this is more to the mentors which is like I've had the opportunity and

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you know the gift of being able to mentor what everyone to say you know provide advice council

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share my experiences and a lot of people consume those things and a lot of people hold me in a

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regard and most people who are winners are competitive. It's just like who you are right you want to

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win you want to beat everybody because that's that's part of the competitive drive but I think there's

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like a there's a comma there that needs to get put in which is that you have to accept two things.

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One is that you are going to die and no one is going to remember like real real like 10,000

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years from now no one's going to remember at all. Number two is that when you're at the end of your

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life the people who are going to be your buyer bets I don't know the people you vanquish but the

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people that you helped and so when I think about that and I know that I've passed a lot of the mentors

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that I've had in my career in terms of financials etc and I really earlier on used to think that

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made me better than them. It's better at the game of business I was better at whatever but I think

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that as I've had a couple more years and some more more scars I've realized something different which

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is that I was only able to get better than them because they gave me the head start they were like

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hey man step on my shoulder and you can you can reach that next branch and I think that if the

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mentees and the mentors both see it that way then the mentees will stop shitting on the mentors that

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help them and the mentors will stop trying to hold back secrets that have propelled them further

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because the point is not that you're going to beat everyone you're going to get really old

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and then you're going to die and as you're getting older they're going to be people who are younger

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who had a head start when you're like man these guys got so easy that's the point of progress

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as a civilization and so rather than lamenting that the next generation has it easier I thought that

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what we all say is I want my kids to have it better than I did or I want to make the world a better

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place well that's what making the world a better place looks like is that they have a head start

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and so we say that this is our mission with our business we want to make the world a better place

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we want to make an impact we want to make positive impact people's lives and then when it actually

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happens we resent the kids for the fact that they didn't have it as hard as us it's like that was

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the point and so I think if we can shift the perspective from the mentor side of like my point

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is not to beat the progeny a point is to forge as far as I can look back and be like hey watch

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after that hole watch after that rock keep going keep going and the thing is is they move through

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the path that I did that we tread three times faster than we did because we really cleared all the

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trees and then they get to the next non-clearing and they have to start hacking away and hacking away

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and hacking away to forge the next path and then they become the mentors turn around and the next

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generation move six times as fast to cover my distance and their distance right and so like we

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really do stand on the shoulders the giants the stand on the shoulders the people came before us

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and so like when I think about like the gratitude that I have for you know the Gary V's who like

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he's you know whatever it's 13 11 years 12 years older than I am and he's forged so much of this path

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that like I didn't have to think about how am I going to create this whole thing it's like

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nah I just he already had a blueprint and I can just start laying that out immediately execute

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rather than having to spend six years figuring it out right and the same degree they're

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there are guys who we have in our portfolio right now who are in their 20s who are making twice

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what I was making total in their 20s than what I was making at 30 and so like I could either be like

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fuck these guys I'm gonna hold my secrets because I want to be better than them right or and they

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could also be like I'm better than he is right but if they came to me below and then now they're

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above then like that was the point like I they should and like I'm not gonna be number one

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but I'm gonna still fucking repeat you know what I mean I'm still gonna go after I'm gonna go for

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gold because I got guys who are ahead of me and I'm still gonna go there you know what I mean

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and so I think that that's the that's that's the beauty of being a human you know what I mean like

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you're gonna live you're gonna die you're gonna learn some things and you want to teach it the next

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guy and as long as the next guy honors the fact that that guy died on the battlefield to give him

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these lessons and come back and they have to recognize that they're going to die on the battlefield

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too for the next generation to pass them then I think that it makes the conversation in the community

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much more productive and much more collaborative rather than the shit talking of like I'm better

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I'm this guy had it easier man if I had that kind of advantage of course you didn't that was why

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we did what we did was to have it to pass on the image make a world a better place make an impact

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if people had started that was the point so like they have it easier than us mission accomplished

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if you look at some of the greatest success stories a lot of them talk about their mentors

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so like Warren Buffett had Paul Graham who was his his mentor early on so he wanted to work for him

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the quick story on that was that he said I'll work for you for free and Paul Graham told him

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you're overpriced because he recognized that he was the one who's gonna be giving far more to

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this relationship even if Warren gave him his time he still was gonna be on the losing side

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but he still did it anyways because he recognized that Warren had a gift right and Warren passed

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him in his career and you'll notice that Warren isn't like man I'm so much better than Paul Graham

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like I passed that dude in my like 40s he doesn't talk like that because he honors the fact that

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Paul Graham got him to this point and when he and Charlie Munger talk about it they talk about

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what they learned from Paul Graham and then what they then had to learn on their own is the next

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evolution in investing and if Paul Graham it had Paul Graham he might have been Warren Buffett

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but he didn't only Warren got Paul Graham right and so Gary Ve didn't have Gary Ve to mentor him

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on his career I did I do right now we all do and so many of us will pass Gary and I don't think Gary

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minds but Gary didn't have Gary I've got Gary but you know what's different is that there's a 20

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year old and might be you who's watching this and you've got me and I'm I'm I'm accomplishing things

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at a at a pretty fast pace and you're going to do it faster than me and I love it that's the

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point I'm still going to be hustling trying to beat you don't get me wrong but it's surface level

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not deep down you know what I mean and I say this because I had this narrative and it really

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impacted the way I saw mentors and how I saw other content creators and how I saw you know people

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give an advice and when I see guys who are in their 60s I'm like man by the time I'm 60 I'm

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going to be 10 times as wealthy as them I'm going to be you know I'm going to have 10 times

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the real estate I mean 10 times the other things right yeah but if they had themselves as mentors

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they would too and so it's like I'm trying to like rub it in someone's face who's literally

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been doing nothing but feed me and help me right and so they say if you if you want to go fast go

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alone if you want to go far go together and so I think that if the narrative changes and the mentors

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realize that the mentees are supposed to beat them and then if they beat them it's a sign that the

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mentor was the success not a failure like that's the mark of the good mentor is that all the people

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they teach rise above them if your mentees and the students that you have and the people that you

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help and the people that you teach don't move above you it means that you're a bad teacher

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not a good one it doesn't mean you're so much better than everyone else it means you're so

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bad at transferring the skill because everyone should be able to move up from your experiences

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faster than it took you to get there like think about that like so for everyone who's got

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an education business as a side note if you've got an education business and no one's doing better

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than you it's because you're not willing to give the secrets that you know are really the things

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that are driving you're not you're not some superhuman you're not I promise you there are so many

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smarter people on Wall Street than you promise like there are and so if none of those people are

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moving ahead it's because you're not really teaching it's not because you're better even the you

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go wants to say that so like that's the goal and so I think that if we if we make that the new

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definition of successive teachers that the students surpass the teacher it's not that the student

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no longer needs the teacher the student whatever it's that like they should move faster through those

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careers and then gets the point where they're both looking together with his experience and his

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raw talent looking at the new landscape saying all right what do you think we should do

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real quick guys if you can think about how you found this podcast somebody probably tweeted it told

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you about it share it on Instagram or something like that the only way this grows is through word

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of mouth and so I don't run ads I don't do sponsorships I don't sell anything my only

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ask is that you continue to pay it forward do whoever showed you or however you found out about

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this podcast that you do the exact same thing so if it was a review if it was a post if you do that

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it would mean the world to me and you'll throw some good karma out there for another entrepreneur

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yeah I think we go you know I tried that other thing over here that I haven't shared with you

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that might step then we can both march together right and so I just think it's a it's shifted my

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perspective in terms of how I saw my mentors and the how much they serve me and how much I would

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rather honor them now rather than rub it in their face that I'm younger and I'm making more money

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than them of course I am they help me I get asked a lot of times because I have this quote

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giveaway the secret sell the implementation with your business right and what that's what we do

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right I mean selling the implementation we want to sell it we buy the implementation because we

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buy you know minority interest in business by the way if you're doing three million dollars or more

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into your business and you want to help go to acquisition knockout but the reason that I make

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this stuff is that like I say this all the time like I'm going to die and the only thing that will be

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left will be the the the documented stuff that I've been able to share the books that I write the

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courses that I make and realistically the courses will probably fade so the books might be the

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only things that are left with given enough time right and so I also do this because I forget this

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stuff like when I'm in that when I'm in it is when I want to be making it because if I'm looking

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back you forget the nuance you forget the details and so I'm trying to do both things which is

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build a bigger business while documenting and this is one thing that I want to like explain already

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I spent about half my day now writing the books and outlining the books and making the frameworks

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that I can communicate it in a really simple way if I wanted to make more money I would get half

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my time back and just double down on building my business faster I wouldn't be doing this so like

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inherently I'm giving up my future upside to have more people have the opportunity to crush me

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or I can see it is we have the opportunity to help way more people at scale make the world a better

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place and I think that when I'm 85 and I look back I'll rather have lived that life because I don't

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think that I'll have a difference between being worth 10 billion and 20 billion when I'm 85 but I

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do think there'll be a big difference if I try to get there by hoarding everything and making one

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guy's life better rather than everyone's life better I think I experienced a lot of joy

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knowing that other people don't have to suffer as much which is the funny thing of like they didn't

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have as hard as us it's like I thought that was the point right and so when I hear somebody's like

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dude you help me get my business from 10,000 to 50,000 a month they're like dude I you know we're

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walking around outside yesterday and someone's like dude I did everything you have and we're doing

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$4 million a year now like he was like emotional when he just saw us like walking around and

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like I can't meet everyone and I don't have the emotional time but just knowing that it's happening

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it makes stomaching the hard times easier and for me that you know I find meaning in that

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because it feels worth it it feels like it's not just me trying to do this for myself it's me trying

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to do this for a lot of people and so like if I'm failing over and over again at this thing I know

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that once I figured out I'll be able to help 100 people cheat code their way through it and not

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spend five months figuring something out or two years figuring something out like I was stuck at

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mid 30 million for three years which to everyone watching they're like boohoo that's not the point

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is that there's another guy who's going to get to that point and he's going to move right past it

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like in a blink of an eye because I've had the right advice that I didn't have right or didn't have

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the context and so the amount of scale that that person be able to help immediately at 100 a year

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later or two years later because of that is the point and so then I can get more leverage in terms

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of like making myself feel better that all these other people are doing well so when I go through

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the hard time I can think about that and it gets me through it if this change your mind about

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some of this shit talking that you've done to a teacher or to a mentor who was earlier on in your

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career because you passed them or they taught you part of the way and then somebody else taught you

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more of the way like my only ask now is just like shoot that guy text and be like hey like

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respect I appreciate you because I can't tell you one how much it means to the mentor when they

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get that text and I also think too it'll help you spit out the poison that you had about the heat

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that you had that wasn't real it was only made up in your head so Caleb and I were talking about

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Gary and how Gary forged the way for so many people and how some people will get further than Gary

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did by the end of Gary's life and it's not that Gary that doesn't say that Gary's bad

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it shows that Gary's really good because the point of a good teacher is that the student does

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pass the teacher and so I wanted to break down that concept because it was something that really

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shifted my perspective and the mentors that I've had in my life and how I saw them

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before during and after my experiences with them and on ongoing basis and if you have mentors

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you have teachers in your life I guarantee you that in 10 minutes or whatever this means of being

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you will forever shift how you see that relationship for the benefit of both of you