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Podcast Host Reveals Gary Vaynerchuk's Dinner Invitation Bait and Switch Tactic
My First Million
We hit record on our private strategy session
"One time Gary Vaynerchuk, his handle, he DM'd me, goes, hey Sam, I haven't talked to you in forever, which we are friendly but not like buddies. But he was like, you want to come to dinner with me? And I was like, yeah, that sounds cool. And I show up and there's like 50 other people there and I was like, where's Gary? And they're like, oh well, he doesn't actually come to these. It's just me, Nick."
Sam shared a revealing story about accepting what he thought was a personal dinner invitation from Gary Vaynerchuk, only to discover it was a mass event where Vaynerchuk's team hosted on his behalf without him present. The anecdote exposes a delegation tactic used by high-profile entrepreneurs to scale personal engagement, though it left Sam feeling misled. The hosts committed not to use this approach for their own meetup events.
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My First Million