by Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk, born Gennady Alexandrovich Vaynerchuk, immigrated from Belarus to the US in 1978 and grew his family's liquor store into Wine Library, scaling it from $3-4 million to $60 million in sales through early e-commerce and WineLibraryTV.[1][2][7] In 2009, he co-founded VaynerMedia with his brother AJ, a leading digital agency serving Fortune 500 clients, and became a bestselling author starting with Crush It!, investor in companies like Uber and Twitter, and creator of VeeFriends NFTs.[1][2][3] He is also a serial entrepreneur behind Resy and Empathy Wines, both acquired by major companies.[2]