- The Monday rant video
was reverse engineered. I just knew that people
would want to watch it. And that's what I also think
is going to happen here. Basically I want this film
to give you the audacity to actually go out and do it. You're 52 years old and
it's not being talked about enough that hey man,
hey gal, it's not over. If you want it so bad,
if it's in you, maybe it's not time
to take up golf or pack it in, maybe it's time
to actually triple down and really focus on your
7 P.M. to 2 in the morning. There's so many
people that truly are good entrepreneurs or have
entrepreneurial DNA but they just weren't lucky
enough to be born during an era that that seemed practical. It's hard for somebody
who's for 30 years gone a certain blueprint to
understand that this is that realistic and they feel
like it's a young man's sport and it's just not.
Like, it's just not. If you've got the right DNA and
you're a 72 year old female you have just a good as an
at-bat as a 27 year old dude. But you've been trained and
story told to and positioned and lived in a
50 year matter that doesn't feel like this
thing in here is a practical way to
build that but it is. The entrepreneurship
is not predicated on taking away from your family. Entrepreneurship is taking
away from everything else. So stop making excuses, "Oh these millenial kids
are so entitled." "Oh, these kids didn't have
to work as hard as we did." Nobody cares if you're 40, 70, 90
alien, female, male, minority. The market will
accept your victories if you're good enough
to have a victory. And I believe, more than ever,
that if you're a 49 year old housewife with two kids because
of this phone you've got more opportunities to create
something for yourselves. Please my friends, do not allow
just the 18 and 14 and 22 year olds to grab at this
pie that is so available to all of us regardless of our age. We're gonna live longer.
The opportunity is real. The 58-year-old right now
that's watching this you'll live another 40 years. 40 years of being able to do something you love
is a big deal. Start putting in the work,
start recognizing this isn't just a young person's game. Start representing the
people that actually put in the work, the gray hairs
that context that knowledge. Start deploying that. Educate
yourself on the new world. Yes, you didn't grow
up with Instagram. You didn't grow up driving
and you learned that. Stop making excuses, start getting educated
in the actual world and start opening up
the opportunities. In my true opinion, you
are actually more likely to be successful in
building a company, at 45, 50 today than the
18-year-olds that are coming out because there's a naiveté,
a lack of experience. You have experience,
you have experience. Like, that's a real thing. Cool, youth and
excitement is great, you have actual
business experience. Plenty amount of talent. There's plenty amount of talent. And there's a ton of
fire and bravado and there's a confidence. There's a confidence
that youth provides. The difference between me
and so many of you is I've put in the god damn
work to learn where people's attention now is
and I'm deploying myself through there. Many of you have drawn
a line in the sand and say I'm not
downloading Snapchat. I'm not
downloading Instagram. That, my friends, is going
to allow you to lose. This video is made
for one reason: I want it to be the calling
card, the seed of the explosion of the 40 to 80-year-old
entrepreneur in our society. The fire that I see in the
eyes of the 19, 20, 25-year-old that feels that they're
entitled to this and then on the flip side the
diminishing just a little bit of ashes, a little smoke
left in that same entrepreneur when they were 22 at 46 when
practicality and family dynamics and the history and the market
tearing down and the lack of that same opportunity
has just dwindled down to a moment where
they don't believe that they've got that shot. I'm here to tell you
you absolutely do. There are absolutely a ton of
entrepreneurs that started their companies in
their 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s when it was difficult
to do such a thing. Sidney Frank who created
Grey Goose didn't invent his big thing until his 70s. And so I'm desperate,
I'm desperate to give you a springboard to say
you know what instead of watching
"House of Cards" seasons, instead of trying to go
to ball games or things of that nature,
yeah, I do have 7PM to 2 in the morning
Monday through Friday. Heck, for a lot of you the
kids are out of the house. I mean let's get
into practicality, if the late 40s, 50s,
60-year-olds that are watching this rant the kids
are out of the house. Yeah, you could pick up golf
or you can finally start that candle company because
you put pretty pictures of candles on Instagram
and it happens. Learn the craft. Figure out the
opportunity at hand, go attack it.
You only live once. When you're 90 to 100-years-old
and you're regretting that you never built this business
and you let this era pass this moment where
there's so much entrepreneurial upside,
you'll regret it and regret is the worst. That's what it is.
At least the way I see it. I got home at
midnight last night. And every fucking
night. It's just real. I don't have to. I don't know, I think
there's a real opportunity to inspire a generation
that so deserves it. I almost feel like being 40, I feel like I'm caught
right in the middle. I have so much empathy for,
I recognize how insane I had to be to... You can't even imagine
how not practical being an entrepreneur was when
I was half your age. In school, a 15 year old now
in school that's getting Ds but is like selling shit on the
internet, everyone's like, "Oh, you're the
next Mark Zuckerburg." Mine was like, "Oh, you're
the next piece of shit." You know? It's so
insanely different. So I have a lot of
empathy for people that I don't know if they
recognize how real it is. (calm music)
