[13] Growing up, Vaynerchuk lived in New York City's Queens borough and later moved to Edison, New Jersey.

[16] In 1998, Vaynerchuk graduated with a bachelor's degree in management science from Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts.

[23] In August 2011, Vaynerchuk stepped away from the wine business to build VaynerMedia, a digital ad agency.

[32][3][33] Vaynerchuck founded a hospitality company called VCR Group with David Rodolitz, Josh Capon, and Conor Hanlon.

[36] In February 2017, Vaynerchuk was a participant of Planet of the Apps, a reality television series, with will.i.am, Jessica Alba and Gwyneth Paltrow.

[40] At 1,000 episodes in 2011, Vaynerchuk retired the show and replaced it with a video podcast called The Daily Grape.

The show inspired Vaynerchuk's fourth book, AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness[44] which reached The New York Times Best Seller list.

Started in 2015, he records interviews with other businessmen and broadcasts investor meetings and strategy sessions at VaynerMedia.