Shaq How are you? I'm good I'm trying to be like you. You know they called me in the Nft space, right? The Black Garyvee I'm a purebred entrepreneur for real. For real. for real like documented dailyvee. what's good headed to Atlanta The Gift code event Shaquille O'Neal's in the building I Can't wait to see the film of that because last time Jack hugged me at the Super Bowl I felt like accountable and that small man's massive but he's massive in his brain and soul so looking forward to that. Look forward to chopping up with a couple hundred of gift goat holders. Looking forward to seeing my man E when I went to college with 301 The spot you know, a little basketball. Love a lot of business q A unveiling gift goat eight to the crew. It's gonna be a nice day and we're flying in and out. So Landing back here in Newark at past midnight so it's gonna be a grinder. A little throwback to the way we did it. Big shout out Drock and uh, excited for today. Yes, we're here. Landed in Atlanta Atlanta's beautiful big gift gold event Shaquille O'Neal He's gonna have everybody hyped. Goats are meeting each other right now. it's gonna be really good. Teams work really hard. Big shout out to everybody on the befriend side. Really excited about this event. Kind of focused as you can tell and ready to go and mingle. Educate, create relationships, connect with the community. do my thing. Really cool. This place is crazy so it's just so good to be with all of you. Um, really really excited about the Q A I think for a lot of people here, Shaq represents what it represents for them. Obviously you see a lot of basketball jerseys. people know that. but I have a good sense of this community Is aware how multi-dimensional Shack really is. His ambition is remarkable, but his capacity for giving is exceptional and so I thought he would be a tremendous person to be here. So let's clap it up for Shaq Even before he gets here, we're really excited about the interview you're about to get with Saladin and Courtney from 1 37 P.m I Want you to really lean in and get a sense of The Man Behind the art I'm gonna go do an obligation real quick. Come right back and we're going to get going with the Hall of Fame Human Shaquille O'Neal Thank you for being here! I'm very excited to get into it with skiing Saladin He went from drawing on his childhood home walls to designing trading cards, working with Brands like Jordan, the MLB, the NFL and many more. So I'm excited to get into it. We are going to introduce the one and only King Solidine! Go baby! Tell him your best friend JP had gotten you your first set of professional art supplies. Um, at what point did JP come into the picture and can you give us little background on him if anybody knows my artwork? Um, I'm kind of known more for the JP to money bear which is in the painting. it's more of my my logo. So my best friend JP um we met when I was probably about 14 to what? 27 years old out of nowhere brain cancer stage four from me playing basketball to that time was just him. Like literally motivating me to like find my gift. It was almost like he was here to do that. That's why JP The Money Bear is in memoration of him. He was such a motivational person and tried to get me on my direction before he left this world. Well thank you so much Saladin for coming here, spending the day with us, sharing your story. Give it up one more time for Saladin and now we're going to get into some Q A. So it's my pleasure to welcome the stage. The Creator and the CEO of V friends Gary vaynerchuk and Champion athlete, entrepreneur, investor and Global icon Shaquille O'Neal Let's hear for the legend: Shaquille O'Neal What was that special guy right? Can you hear me turn me up a little? Turn me all the way up there We go la la la la la. He forgot this man was a musical genius I Don't forget that album. Shaq How are you I'm good I'm trying to be like you. You know they called me in the Nft space, right? The Black Garyvee Jack It's such an honor to be doing this with you. Thank you for doing this. Thank you for being here with the gift goats. This is a representation of a small community of 555 within the befriends world. Let's clap it up for each other. First, the reason I spend a lot of time talking about eighth place trophies is no one's going to be great at anything if they're not competitive. Number two: I Think the other thing that almost everyone struggles with on their path to Greatness is 100 accountability. It is staggering to me how obsessed people are with pointing fingers and not thumbs. It is scary to watch people genuinely believe it's everyone's fault but themselves. In a world where you can do anything you want, you can adjust um and then and then the third one is patience. Do you remember when you were on SNL and your name was Bernard and uh, your dad was Tracy Morgan and he was like, uh, get your ass over here I'm gonna spank your butt Bernard Would you like to reenact that scene? Yes, Yeah, yeah, let's go. Unbelievable. You're the best. This this was shot on SNL about 20 years ago I Don't want you I Don't want you to think this is some new all right? All right. Bernard Get your ass over here. Humble spank your butt times I Gotta tell you, get here on time. Let's clap that up. Foreign. That's awesome. Don't ever do that again to not have that on the bingo card I will kill you. My question is what role has kindness played in building your success? My mother taught me a long time ago cost you nothing to be nice when I first became Shaq 18 19 years old I was arrogant. My mother and my father are people you don't talk back to. My father said be careful who you step on on your way to success and my mother will say who the hell are you Oh, that ended my arrogance. She said it's because you're starting to get all this stuff. Doesn't make you better than my man up there. Sitting next to her son doesn't make me better than this guy with the hat. Yeah, you know. So and then my favorite word always be humble. So with me, what you see is what you get I don't like, you know I do a lot of random acts of kindness I don't like bragging about it because that's not what I'm about like I just like making people happy. The thing that I wish I had the answer for homelessness. Homelessness hurts my heart the other day. where were we The other day we were in some City the other day and we saw a guy eating dirt where Baltimore yeah we're in Baltimore and we came under the bridge and the guy was eating dirt and then I just went like I wanted to just you know. So I'm always remain humble, remain kind. that's here for Shaquille O'Neal let's get up. Look how big this dude is All right I Love you brother. Don't kill him too much exercise. it's like 2 000 on eBay Let's go. What's most important to you as the project operator is the lead on team and what do you think is the most important thing? One Two words for the community. In the second half: I'll go longer than one. Two words: What's very important to me currently is to refocus on not the long-term value of the physical, but the short-term value of the physical based on how the project was positioned and so I think you'll see a lot of that. I have no expectations of the community, none none. What do I want for the community for them to be happy and healthy and do whatever the they want to do I know what my responsibility is I want to make the best project I can so that's what I'm focused on. but let there be no com, you know? So I don't like Discord because if words are harder than video right? Like you can lose the tone. Let there be no confusion. play this video over and over until the day I die I Have 0.0 expectations of anybody quick I have it on myself and that's what I need to focus on. Yeah, this is nice. I'm just very grateful for the feedback from today. So many of you are so gracious with your compliments and your thanks. uh I'm incredibly humbled to be at the helm of this project. I Just want to thank you for coming out. I Uh I really do appreciate all of you and I just want you to know I'm really working hard really working hard on this. Committed to this for the rest of my professional career. If you look carefully under the hood, a lot of the communities are built because they have impact on the financial output and the communities are very grounded in financial realities of like self-preserving interests and things of that nature. That is not the case here. you're building Community because you like each other and that's the best and I love you for that. Thank you guys just sitting here wrapping up meetings after you know the highs of like 200 people you know and then like just operations meetings here, heading to meet uh CMO for Baylor world and off to the airport. We'll close it out with Ab and Andrew but good day so far so dailyvee I'm sorry I'm not looking in the camera it's rude but I'm on the grind 9 30 p.m answering a prospective client for Vayner You guys saw what I just did in the back of the car for 25 minutes. Tell them, Tell them what did I do Adam tell them what I just did the full 25 minute text it answered emails I try not to look at your phone too much so I'm trying it to be creepy. yeah, just grinding airport Gary's here covet is last year I'm back. It was a lot of fun Shack is he's a humble dude that you'll definitely put the spanking Part Tracy Morgan thing and they're like what a like just so good to be part of the community. when I envisioned Nfts all the real life for all of you, they're like What's that P worth? Well it was the only way you could have been part of this. Let's start with that absolutely and so just really pumped to be back in quiet airports at night in the ATL So my college friends I saw a bunch of goats did a lot of work prepped Vcon which is our big super conference with the NFP The only way to get in is to own a befriend series. one like kind of feel like I'm in full effect Vayner X is going brain garyvee My latest post is a green screen of me talking about making two thousand dollars selling Legos over six months. that rant. this style would have got forty thousand this if I just did a rant right now. like you could make two thousand dollars selling Legos over six months 237 000 views on Australia This one's at 350 000 right now when I wake up tomorrow over a million So Gary Vee is still on his game understanding that green screen is a better tactic. The Essence sock strategic, organic content. Big shout out to Vaynermedia. You know what? I'm talking about Vaynerx. You're learning what I'm talking about. So it's kind of like in my jets are good. When's the last time on dailyvee that was happening like jets are good Knicks are winning I'm good.