#AskGaryVee Episode 147: Twitter's 140 Character Limit

on this episode we talk about Twitter 140 character limit me establishing myself as the boss and you jumping away from that $100,000 plus job to go into your passion you ask questions and I answer them this is the Ask Gary B show yes hey everybody this is Gary vay Nerd Chuck and this is episode 147 of the Ask Gary ve show kept the door open today what's up Kaylin wanted the door to be open brings a little extra energy I didn't like that 15 got so much dap so I wanted to give 16 some love Brandon Barton's got a new haircut from resi I'm loving it maybe he should come over and show himself kayin one my favorite employees sitting in the background cool I'm in good mood uh heading to London tomorrow uh and uh yesterday's show was awesome 15 brought some serious energy good to be back in the main saddle as I like to call it India this is the main saddle cool main saddle India let's get into the show oh nice actually what is that called when you do a what that Ariz not we did not harmonize we're not noting come with me I can't comment down okay okay sh see I have like I have terrible don't think don't be self-conscious have you watched 147 episodes of self-lifting self-esteem building come on here we go um from Kyle with most of your employees knowing you before Zach get over here Kyle Z no Zach I said something I wanted to share with B Nation up just wanted Bon Nation to see your hat my hat Pokemon cool have a good day yes oh that's you sorry Kyle Kyle asks with most of your

employees knowing you before they worked for you how did you establish your Authority as the boss you know funny thing about Vayner media a lot of them didn't know who I was kayn please let's find out question is you know when most of my employees knew who I was prior to them working here how did I establish my authority did you know who I was prior to working I knew you were in the marketing industry but I had not much cont see thanks Kay that that's a scoop you'd be stunned I appreciate everybody thinking everybody knows me I would say more than half of the employees if not 80 7 63% of the employees did not know who I was so is India Stefon no thank you Dr you know so so there you go right like you know um you know that Eddie come here you know so I'm going to keep rolling here um one whether they knew or they didn't there was just no breathing room I was going to I'm the CEO of the company I'm going to establish Eddie did you know who I was before you started working here I did oh crap I did know how my friend was reading thank you economy got it and I stalked Gary and that's when I found out about vayer now I'm here love you brother love you man great employee too um thank God for that book uh so you know most of them didn't the ones that did it wasn't hard they either had one of two things they had no idea who I was easy to establish Authority I'm the damn CEO they knew who I was they knew all my accolades respect for the game I'm the damn CEO easy easy e rest in

peace nikelle asks what do you think of Twitter's plan to remove the 140 character limit N I think this is a tremendous execution by Twitter really needs a jump start in a lot of ways and really the reason it had a limit was because of the technology in place because it was really in the old 160 character limit or something of that nature with the phone structure of texting like there's no reason at this point to keep that limit it created creativity I think it served the purpose but you've got to evolve or die and I think the freedom of more characters could be helpful plus you have a lot of base of the people over the last eight years that use it that will still keep things short and tight uh for me I can see us now doing in complete blog post type things like we do on Facebook in a Twitter environment could open up some opportunity I think this is a very smart move a much needed move a a move that I'm excited to test out I think uh I think this was a really a

need Garrett asks what's the worst mistake a potential Viner media employee can make during an interview with you um nothing because mainly I'm on feel I'm actually not even paying attention to what anybody's saying I'm actually more trying to get the vibe of it so you know obviously then would mean lying or trying to fake the funk I don't mind when people come in and Pander to my ego I like it I don't mind when they don't know who the hell I am I like it see that's what's fun when you want to Rise Like a Phoenix it's cool and when you think highly of yourself it's cool I get to win no matter what it's a great structured game so I'm not really analyzing for I'm not there's nothing anybody can do literally nothing you tell me that eh you know this company stinks I'm just here for whatever I kind of weirdly get like I get into like teenage girl Dynamics I'm like oh I'm going to turn this guy around right so like I'll go that route or he come in say this is the greatest thing of all time I'm like yeah that's somebody that's all bought in I think I'm so goddamn optimistic that uh that it really doesn't matter what you do I'm probably going to want to hire you regardless if you don't get hired by me it means that there just wasn't a practical puzzle piece need there was so it wasn't something you did and that's that Mike asks do you or have you hired

College dropouts at Vayner media do you and have yes where's who Stefan Lano like we've got them uh this is not something that even registers in my mind as a matter of fact you guys know how I feel about school pretty hardcore uh I uh I've gotten hit up on Twitter a bunch of times that says Vayner media has you know this need for uh two years of I don't know college like whatever our requirements are and I didn't even know like I assume that we did that as a standard thing that HR at one point did it AJ or Kelly when she was the managing director or somebody in HR and literally I reached out and like we've changed it I think we've added like or have on like I didn't even know ston was or wasn't like it doesn't even register for me um if you got the skills you've got the skills I have no once you get in here whether you go to Harvard or you're from schmarvard it doesn't matter the game starts and then that's what ends up mattering Mar College scharber college shirt is a good idea scharber you Andrew he hat being on camera does he well cuz he's terrible on camera Andrew uh we need a scharver youu uh t-shirt like schar U like University uh we can go university of schmarvard we can go schmarvard U like this is you know you're the creative you figure all right cool great job uh please leave in the comments who's in for a mared you but t-shirt but this is where I'm weird and gangster do not say it cuz you think I'm going to be pumped and then not do it I will literally track the data if you put a comment saying you're getting one to see if you then got one Gabe you're not on the show all right that's everything that's it all right good show no I'm good feel better looking for statements I appreciate that also I'm looking for more share Monsters uh one of the things that I've noticed is I've taken the foot off the pedal on the right hooks I want show to grow I want more people to watch it is my oxygen more people watch it more excited I am more likely we can hit a plateau actually get to you know our end goal of getting 200 episodes in of this show which yeah yeah yes I'm so happy yes are we back yeah so happy cool that's it you keep asking questions I'll keep answering them uh in that part there's like a lot of signs like d made a mistake in that transition part