Do I Support Vaynermedia Employees' Personal Brands?

Chris asks Gary would you support Bor employees writing their own books and curating their own content streams and personal Brands Chris this is a great question uh as a matter of fact first of all India first let's talk about Chris bribing you and like attacking you let's go over here to India tell the vayer Nation Oh The vayer Nation the story of actually while you're doing that while you tell everybody Chris's attack and bribing I actually am gonna bring a prop for this I need your microphone that's fine I'll be right back trouty um all right I'll give you the microphone for India's story all right uh Chris was extremely persistent over the holidays a time when not a lot of other people were tweeting questions and he got his friends to tweet um after his question and tag me and then he said that he might start bribing me so it definitely worked here's your question on the show it didn't work because you didn't ex you didn't execute the actual bribe gift oh yeah right you went Noble but now Chris I want you to know and we've known each other a long long long time uh and it's good to have you on the show uh that you will need to send India a gift it will need to be substantial uh and we will tell the vayer nation what you got her uh in a upcoming episode and so um you know this is really your chance to either be a good guy or a terrible guy trout can you do me a favor can you find me Jason Donley yeah he was going through he's floating around uh orientation yep cool uh we will uh we were looking for Jason Donnelly uh and we will answer Chris's question with Jason Donnelly as a human prop to your question let's go to the next question I'll interrupt that question when Jason Donley shows up that's how we're doing it drock don't fight me drock let's move on all right here we are to finish off this answer this is actually tremendous timing because the question came at the same exact time that Jason rejoined Vayner media Jason you made the vital devastating mistake to leave Vayner media and go somewhere else but then you've rejoined Vayner today why don't you tell the Vayner Nation first just cuz I want to hear it and feel good about myself about why you did that but just one sentence because I want to actually answer the question this is home that's it all right you I figured you could answer this question better than I did so why don't you tell the Vayner Nation how I did support somebody who was writing their own book not only did he support me by just loving the book he bought copies and gave it to people throughout the office and uh he's been nothing but helpful and the best boss ever yeah so yes the answer to thanks go work you got to make up lost time uh the bottom line is of course you know I think that you can't get away with saying you're going to take care of people and you want to build around them too many people want to act like they're going to take care of everybody but then suppress people who they think can Trump them see there's something amazing that happens when you think you're the greatest of all time you don't think that anybody is necessarily going to be able to surpass you that's you don't need to suppress and I mean that I mean it may sound like a douchebag thing to say but like I believe so much in myself that there is no value in me trying to hold down people that I think are more talented me than me and that happens every day of the year in organizations all the time and so for me show them for me if they're better than me or if they need to fly the nest well then that's what needs to happen if that means writing their own book and building their brand I'm more than happy to do that and support it um I just believe in Fair and in capitalism and uh and so not only do I believe in supporting it I do support it actively when it happens oh crap wait subscribe I need subscriptions because I can't push this many right hooks in Social so