Gary Vaynerchuk is a Belarusian–American entrepreneur, speaker, author, and internet personality. He has attained enormous success in the digital-marketing and social-media space and leads top companies such as ‘VaynerMedia’ and ‘VaynerX.’ He is also known to have transformed his family wine business from a $3 million company to a $60 million empire within a few years. He was born in Babruysk, Soviet Union (present-day Belarus), and moved to the US with his family when he was 3 years old. As a teenager, he started getting involved in several small-time business deals, such as selling baseball cards and flowers, and started earning quite a lot of money. He then joined his family’s retail-wine business and subsequently graduated from ‘Mount Ida University’ in Massachusetts. He took over the reins of his father’s retail company and turned it into a highly successful e-commerce business. He laid the foundation of ‘Wine Library,’ ‘VaynerMedia,’ and ‘The Gallery.’ He made some successful investments as an angel investor, and his business expertise helped many companies flourish. In 2009, Gary ventured into authorship and signed a deal with ‘HarperStudio’ for 10 books. He has written six books until now. Known as the “first wine guru of the YouTube era,” Gary has also made several TV appearances over the years.