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to rock in his head tough way to start was a short first of all it's so crazy to look back at ten years ago how the iPhone X no I don't think the X is exactly ten years old almost ten years more than ten years ago super fun to see that clip from ten years ago a little baby fat there anyway just jumped in you know kind of building off of the stuff that up for some in Seattle couldn't do a whole voice day today techstars they have a voice incubation tech stars one of the premier incubations for the startup class world you guys have heard about these accelerators Y Combinator tech stars these are top players they take six percent I think these days five to eight percent of the company for the company to be incubated and started in their company they give a little money they get network to get characters to come in and speak they do things of that nature a great model for a lot of businesses over the last decade for me super exciting on this one because I've stopped doing kind of engagement with these incubators in the startup consumer app world but this one is specifically focused on voice and as if you've been following me at all I like voice so I'm heading there now gonna do a fireside chat and then I'm going to do consulting for eight or nine or ten of the companies and head back and then just get a lot of work done and then head out to Boise Idaho for a keynote and then head back home and do a bunch but I'm excited about getting my hands a little bit dirtier in that world I've got something for the vlog you've been recording right good so you let me see the transition there's Patrick Gibbons what's your official title of what baby's here so bean are smart this is actually this may actually have to be the episode because this is something that I will not embark on as a pillar very often and I think Patrick's story can help so many let me explain I invested in the company Internet of Things right your bottle talks to you I'm running out of water you can use me for this just where the world's going right we're here at an incubation around voice this is not mobile this is not social this is what I've been in for the last decade three years ago we started you know three or four one-man one-woman divisions in this bigger company Patrick comes over from another shop I was really impressed with him kind of hired him pretty quickly on the spot and it's about his story so vein are smart Internet of Things is where really where we started a lot of our work now is in the voice space not necessarily a direct line to that but indirectly you know this term intrapreneur you know being entrepreneurs within companies I'm skeptical to it because I'm so overly romantic about entrepreneurship it's interesting I think you probably represent one of the best if not the single best version in the seven eight nine year history your history of vaynermedia Patrick was thrown in there one-man team no ad I'll finish in a second one second thank you such a pleasure while he's introducing Patrick made its 20th system stayed alive actually that's so funny you know what he did he stayed alive until I got good will guarantee do sir listen if your idea is stupid like right if your horse is like you know a horse son like those machines you put the quarter in you got to actually run a race you're gonna lose like you know but it's stunning how important the CEO is how important she and he is it just it's stunning so how we doing so far d-roc like we're weekend to the new start what do you think some good some bad something different yeah we're learning always be learning what about if I ask the questions right now and you added it as if I'm not right there right so we're about to interview Patrick Gibbons who's the VP of Boehner smart I think he's a uniquely interesting person for you guys at YouTube because he won within our organization and a lot of you work in organizations and you have entrepreneurial spirit and you're not ready to leave so maybe how do you act like an entrepreneur a K an intrapreneur inside of an organization I think my whole approach to it was run as thin and as hard as I could for as long as possible and the point of that was to have low overhead and to be able to do whatever else on the side I could to make sure my group was not dragging things down while we built our capabilities up so that when the market was ready we were ready to jump I really want to continue to inspire you guys to take the voice space more seriously I mean I just left here to Seattle for it right so I'm not in the business of like flying places for free just cuz I think it's strategic so anyway back to Patrick this interview is to get his perspectives on how to win within an organization and the voice space I know where Gary's heart was and where his head was in this space I knew he saw the

IOT space being important and growing as a place where a lot of attention was gonna move from consumers and where his client said to be I see so much opportunity to build new kinds of interactions here so we're in like the first half step of what's gonna be a really long journey advice and it's cool for me to start playing already with ways to hack what's our it's still a new system I love going into meetings with clients right now or internal teams and being asked what the best practices are and we immediately will say look here's a few things that work in voice here's why they work but anyone who tells you they know a best practice is full of at this point we haven't even been here long enough no one's tried enough things and failed at them to prove out the ones that work so we're super early we're hacking we're playing in the space and that's um fun place to be yeah we're going to they don't want anything so what's gonna be no we can tell everything the whole thing's gonna have a Russell override or whatever find somebody who's got a say song named Patrick you sign up for the garyvee wine in month club you got your email confirmation today just now you fill um setting up yet but you will right now right thank you yeah it makes me happy are you signed up with your rock you know I know you did no but let me give you a good idea take out your phone right now and go it's a great idea were you caught up for a second pill and did you get an email confirmation now cuz I don't know if they started do come on is super dacing can you make it pump because I can see you weren't planning on yeah I want to really have fun AJ's gonna have it to be fun I mean this was super exciting for me it feels very early social media reminded me that I can still play in the tech space and be smart and incredible founders with clear vision and a different energy because when you're selling something that the world hasn't bought yet you're a different animal but super easy selling social media and mobile now selling the future of voices of infrastructure in our society and how it interacts is a totally different game enjoyed it tremendously and I love you are watching and a lot of you want to be YouTube stars do what I've done and I always say you know watch what I do not what I say if you're just a curious kid go deep into this void space I want to use this moment in my blog to have those moments eight years from now that makes me so happy because I get an email from you that you just sold your company for seven hundred thirteen million dollars to Google because you literally watched this vlog you went out and took the time and the 40 80 150 hours to learn the space you got an internship at a startup you learn something started something this moment can be the seed of the rest of your life take advantage of it take care of man real pleasure looking forward to jamming together let's take care of us real good day real good I wanted to remember it boys comment of the day on YouTube comes to you live from Seattle hi Andrew Hayes Lee says you finally convinced me to get back into snapchat I don't know what I haven't watched the episode yet I don't know exactly what I said but I which is there are practitioners and their headline readers and as a practitioner of content creation and distribution snapchat is a phenomenal place to be a marketer right now if you care about people under 35 if you're a stock person and Wall Street maybe not so much if you're a person that just lives and needs one thing at a time maybe not so much but as a practitioner that wants to run businesses and get done it's phenomenal yes