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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

Gary Vaynerchuk

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Gary Vaynerchuk
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: November 14
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