Why 2026 is the Year to Start a Business
6/23/202648 min
In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I sit down on the CoinDesk Gen C Podcast to talk about why AI is the biggest thing since the internet and why too many people are stuck in "no culture" instead of "maybe culture." I share why the human being is the most underrated thing in the world, and how a 16 year old in rural Peru or the outskirts of Pittsburgh now has unprecedented opportunity. I also discuss why this explosion of AI is the precursor to the explosion of analog, and why brand is about to be put on a pedestal in the agentic era.
You'll learn about:
• Maybe Culture vs. No Culture
• Unprecedented Opportunity for the Have-Nots
• Why Algorithms Expose People
• The Coming Analog Renaissance
• Why Brand Goes on a Pedestal
• Optimism About the Human Being
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First 90 secondsGary Vaynerchuk· Guest0:00
The thing that inspires me is that there's a 16-year-old kid right now literally listening to this in the suburbs of, in the outskirts of Pittsburgh or in rural Peru at literally, if they have the internet, which third world countries have unprecedented access to the internet, she or he can do something. They can build, they can vibe code something. They can build an agentic. They could service clients that are unaware that they can be so effective and efficient with AI. They can become renowned or famous using social. They can, they can make content from TikTok affiliate and have one video get 500,000 views and make $40,000. I spoke to a woman yesterday who's a TikTok affiliate who made $400,000 in December making 30 pieces of content. This is unprecedented opportunity for the have-nots. It's- This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience.
Sam Ewen· Host0:58
[static] Gary, welcome to Gen-C. Literally since the first episode when Avery and I started the podcast, we were like, "The ideal guest will be Gary." And of course, now that she's no longer one of our co-hosts- I waited. Yeah, exactly. Um, but, uh, we do wish her the best. Um, Gary, I wanna just start with, this is, like, such an unprecedented time in business. You are someone that a lot of people go to to say what's gonna be next. So when, in a world of AI in 2026 with all the kind of chaos that