Digital Social Hour - Avoid This $100K E-commerce Mistake | Vladyslav Varizhuk DSH #521

Episode Date: June 27, 2024

🚨 Avoid This $100K E-commerce Mistake! 🚨 Dive into this jaw-dropping episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly, featuring the e-commerce mogul Vlad from Miami! 🌴 Discover the crucial mistake that could cost you $100K in the e-commerce world and how to sidestep it like a pro. 🚀 In this episode, Vlad shares his incredible journey from being broke to managing a vast e-commerce empire, including over 100 employees in the Philippines and a massive distribution network. 🏢💰 You'll hear about his wild yacht parties, his philanthropic efforts feeding 1,500 children, and the secret sauce to his unbeatable business strategy. 🌟 Tune in now to learn: - How to avoid costly errors in e-commerce - The power of investing capital wisely - Vlad's transition from eBay to Amazon and wholesale - His unique approach to building a loyal and motivated team Don't miss out on these valuable insights! 📈 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Join the conversation and be part of our growing community. Your support helps us bring bigger and better guests! 🙌 #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #Podcast #EcommerceMistake #AvoidMistakes #AmazonSellers #VladyslavVarizhuk #BusinessGrowth #Entrepreneurship #TuneInNow #WatchNow #MoneyInvestment #RemoteWork #AverageClient #SalesStrategy #ClientSuccess #100KInvestment #EcommerceSuccess #MoneyManagement #EcommerceWarehouse #EcommercePodcast CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Vlad's Businesses 04:18 - Vlad's Childhood 08:26 - College 09:01 - Parents 11:02 - Goals 13:43 - Retire Plans 16:51 - Not Looking at the Bill 17:22 - Materialistic Culture of Miami 18:50 - Partying with Dan Bilzerian 23:18 - Did You Always Want to be Rich 27:35 - Food in the Philippines 28:00 - Do You Have a Girlfriend 29:05 - Can Money Buy Happiness 29:58 - Introverts vs Extroverts Balance 30:17 - Promotion and Final Thoughts APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUESTS: Vladyslav Varizhuk https://www.instagram.com/vladyslav_varizhuk?igsh=MWJtZGxoN3plMG1xcA== https://enopolyautomation.com/ SPONSORS: Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How much did you have to start with for that? I mean, I've always done business, but I require my clients. So my clients are the ones that bring in the capital for the purchasing power. Realistically, the average client comes in with about 50 to 100K. But you can do a lot more

or you could do a little bit less, but yeah, that's what we kind of look for. Interesting. So if someone puts up 100K, how long does it normally take to start seeing some sales and stuff? Oh, right away. Oh, right away?

Right away. Wherever you guys are watching this show i would truly appreciate it if you follow or subscribe it helps a lot with the algorithm it helps us get bigger and better guests and it helps us grow the team truly means a lot thank you guys for supporting and here's the episode all right guys we got vlad from mi Yeah, definitely. That's a big change. Yeah, man. I actually just got back from Philippines and haven't been in Miami lately, actually. What was Philippines like? It's great.

You ever been to Asia before? Been to China and I think that's it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, some of the nicest hospitality you can ever get in the world. Some of the nicest people. I go there every about six to seven months. Nice.

I have a little over 100 employees there. Oh, that's where your VAs are and stuff? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I visit them. I got two offices out there. So I visit the offices and see what they need through a really big company party. We fed over 1,500 children throughout two food drives. Wow.

That's incredible, man. And it's probably pretty cheap out there, so you didn't need to spend anything crazy. Yeah, it's nothing crazy, but just being able to help out the community and just seeing the smiles on the kids' faces, it's huge. Yeah. What language do they speak over there?

It's called Tagalog. Okay. But it depends, honestly, which island you're on because they all have different dialects. But a lot of people in the Philippines speak English. Nice. That's cool. So these people you hire are mainly just VAs for your e-commerce business? Yeah, they're VAs for my e-commerce distribution and also the warehouse as well.

Okay. What's the warehouse? Just storing product inventory? So that's one of the companies I own, but basically it's a prep center. So we prep products for e-commerce sellers. So if they need products prepped for Walmart, whatever or Shopify we just help them out with that and how did you get into the e-commerce stuff honestly I just got tired of being broke

I was in MLM and when I started my business career that wasn't working out the way I wanted it to and I kind of bought a course on drop shipping back in the day and that's kind of like that was my start and a few years down the road that's what I do so you you started with shopify and moved over to amazon no so we started with i

started with ebay um that was okay but then we switched over to amazon did amazon dropshipping that kind of stuff and then switched over to wholesale that's why i started my own distribution company as well nice so wholesale is where where the money's out then? Yeah, absolutely. Interesting. That's what, I mean, I'm sure you have packages arriving every day. Every day. Yeah. Bro, literally nonstop. Yeah. That's what we do. We manage a little over a hundred Amazon stores right now, a couple of Walmart stores for investors. And then from there, the distribution company sets up all the deals with the brands. The thing with wholesale though is you need money. Yeah. You need capital. How much did you have to start with for that? I mean, I've always, I've always done

business. So, but I require my clients. So my clients are the ones that bring in the capital for the purchasing power. Realistically, the average client comes in with about 50 to 100 K. But you can do a lot more or you could do a little bit less, but yeah, that's what we kind of look for. Interesting. So if someone puts up a hundred K, how long does it normally take to see, start seeing some sales and stuff? Oh, right away. Oh, right away. Right away. Um, well, I mean, basically the way, the way I tell people, it's like, look, it takes about once you, once you buy your first inventory cycle, it's about three to five weeks before it hits your account or your Amazon store. And then you make sales right away.

Wow. That's pretty cool. Cause some, some businesses you invest a hundred K you don't for like years, like real estate. Right.? I mean to make back your franchise fee depends really how much you have but anywhere from A couple of months to a year and a half really. Yeah, but then from there I keep running and running and We we've had some crazy success stories already got a bunch of client interviews on my youtube channel and everything Yeah, I saw a lot of those I like that you do that because a lot of other people that sell what you sell don't have those client videos yeah they well they try to sell what i sell there's no one in my space that's actually doing it the way i am no i don't you don't see any of those people's employees because they don't have them right

that's true it's all a one-man band yeah yeah that makes sense so you were broke until what age sheesh i mean to me i've always been broken i still am right i mean what what's money yeah um but realistically when i started making money it's probably around like 25 24 i think 24 i bought my own house so that's probably right around when i started making money it's still pretty young yeah 24 and you were in ukraine growing up right yeah so i lived in ukraine until i was eight years old so i was born in russia i grew up i grew up in ukraine from like one years old to like eight then Then I came to the United States. Interesting.

Do you remember? I'm fully American, basically. So you don't remember much from over there? Just some, yeah, I mean, up to whatever eight-year-old remembers. Yeah, I don't remember much. Some classes, some friends, really it. Yeah. And you chose Miami from the start or you moved there later?

No, I lived all across the East Coast from New York, North Carolina, different parts of Florida. But Miami, once I got – because my mom lives in Port St. Lucie in Florida. I got her a house, a car, and I'm like, what the hell? There's nothing to do in Port St. Lucie. There's no girls there, nothing. So I had to move to Miami because I was bored. Yeah. Yeah.

That's a good spot for girls too. It's amazing. Depending on what you're trying to do with them, I guess. Yeah. Miami's a lot of business. Miami's a lot of partying. Miami's a lot of fun. It could get a little overwhelming for most people.

Yeah. You've got to be able to control yourself. Have you gotten caught up in that nightlife scene, just partying nonstop and stuff? No. I mean, I go out, but I don't overdo it. Right. I have no desire to constantly party or anything like that, but I do enjoy going out. What's your favorite spot out there? Depends what I'm into.

Lately, I just kind of host my own parties. I'll take the yacht out, do yacht parties, or invite people over to the penthouse, and then we just throw a big party there. But if I go out, I go out to dinners, and very rarely I go to clubs anymore. That's my vibe too. I never got the club vibe, dude.

You can't hear shit. It's packed. Like you can't see anyone. I'm more of like a house party, yacht type of vibe. Yeah. And then like, so here's the thing. I like to control my environment. Because when you have the right setup, you have the right people there, the right kind of girls there.

And then you can actually get what you want or have the night you're looking to have right you know what i mean yeah that's how dan bazarin did it with his parties yeah i think 10 girls for every guy and you knew all the guys yeah so you aim for similar yeah that's exactly what we did i love it yeah dude i mean like like um i don't know if you checked out my um or my yacht parties my birthday parties i mean it was insane i think i had like two two dudes two or three dudes and we had over 20 girls holy it was it got crazy that's nuts dude how do you find the girls um honestly it's all instagram oh wow yeah especially like a lot of girls um lately have been reaching out to me before i'd have my assistant just go on my instagram and start dming a bunch of girls yeah that smart. And do you think you'll grow out of that phase or you just love it so much?

I have no idea, man. All I know is every couple of years, a person changes. I mean, who I am today is not the same person who I was three years ago even. But we'll see. I don't know, man. I don't try to predict the future. I just kind of enjoy by the moment and just try to get better. Just live in the present. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. I used to think about the future like hella dude, you know what I mean? But it's easy to get lost in that.

Yeah, absolutely. And dude, you can't, you can't really see, you don't, you don't know what's happening. You don't like that.

I'm the biggest, like one of the things that motivates me the most is I know I'm going to die one day. And I think that's beautiful because like, are you interested in coming on the digital social hour podcast as a guest we'll click the application link below in the description of this video we are always looking for cool stories cool entrepreneurs to talk to you about business and life click the application link below and here's the episode guys you can't make a that big of a mistake to where like it's

going to last forever nothing lasts forever and you can also use that to your advantage to know that i'm gonna figure it out or i'm gonna die one of those two this guy you can also use that to your advantage to know that i'm gonna figure it out or i'm gonna die one of those two this guy you can tell the future it's either gonna happen or you're gonna die so you kind of know at least what's gonna happen i like that mindset though because some people get embarrassed or whatever and they think the world is ending right but it's just a moment just get over it and move on yeah you gotta be like that man you gotta be you gotta be chill and just understand everything works out yeah did you go to college um i did two years at a community college um i was actually i couldn't pass the test in high school uh so i've passed i failed all the um

sats or whatever they have act yeah that those i couldn't pass them so you even fail those um you just get a really low score i don't know what's failing what's not uh and so i just went to a community college but like i had no desire i didn't know what i wanted to do it's like how do you expect an 18 year old to know what the hell they want to do with the rest of their life right like you don't have experience you haven't tried anything so i did that for two years and i was like yeah you know it's not for me i filled up and where were your parents on this journey did they support it or um i had a mom well i still have a mom um that's all i've really had ever since i left ukraine in ukraine i had a

grandfather and grandmother i grew up with them but um i grew up basically just my mother and she was never really supportive until in my decisions until i got her a house then she's like okay you kind of know what you're doing now now i pay you pay your salary in my decisions until I got her a house. Then she's like, okay, you kind of know what you're doing. Now I pay her salary, take care of all of her bills. Now she's like, okay, you got this shit. Wow, she had some strict guidelines for you, huh? Yeah, I mean, she wanted me to be a doctor because everyone in my family is some sort of a doctor.

Our grandfather's a dentist. My grandmother made dentures or something. That's tough expectations. Yeah, right? And I remember the day I told her, I'm told him like hey i'm dropping out of college yeah i'm the first college dropout in my family yeah yeah typically people say they're the first person to go to college i'm like i'm the first one that dropped out i don't see the roi on most forms of medical these days i mean don't get me wrong doctors do make a lot of money to a person that works a lot.

Right. In comparison to other nine-to-fives, yes. Yeah. But they also love it. Some of them, yeah. Yeah. The people I talked to in the medical field, they love helping people. And there's nothing wrong with that.

It's amazing. We need doctors. We need lawyers. We need engineers. And you got to go to school for all that. But for me, personally personally wasn't it i just wish instead of eight years of school it was eight years of being in the hospital or something where it's tangible real knowledge being learned rather than textbook stuff yeah you just got to have someone fund that um because most people you know you can't really get paid

until you can actually help yeah the internships because you got to get out of college then work for free for four years right and then something then something like that. Yeah. I mean, you're giving up 12 years and those are your prime years to make money. We have the most energy right now in our twenties to make money. So you're giving those up by the time you're a doctor, you're 30. Yeah. I mean, you gotta love it. You gotta, you gotta know what you want to do. Yeah. It's definitely tough. Any goals for your current company? I mean, honestly, my biggest goal was i want to get sued for being a monopoly really i would love that what a goal yeah so that's what i'm working for actually that's why i like dude that's why i started all these

different companies that all work together on one mission um so we'll see how it works out wow do you want to be just the biggest supplier for Amazon sellers? Amazon, I mean, I don't just supply for Amazon sellers. I sell to mom and pop shops, to actual brick and mortar stores. Because I get really good prices and I work directly with the brands. So I get the best prices you can get. For instance, if you want to go to a brand and buy $100,000 worth of stock, you're going to get a much higher price than I am because I'm spending millions with them.

So you could arbitrage it. Yeah. So I could help out a lot of different businesses. But at the end of the day, I just want to have time freedom, right? Right. It's like money's cool, but I don't want to work all the time. I don't want to spend 8 to 10, 12 hours every single day, right? I'm working towards freedom because I like to have fun.

Like I told you, I just came back from a snowboarding trip and realistically, I should be taking one every month because it's winter somewhere in the world at all times of the year. Yeah, you took five days off, you said, right? Yeah, I mean, so everything's business, okay? My sales guys were there, right? So we're doing calls, coaching, all that kind of stuff and snowboarding. I use my time wisely. Yeah.

People try to separate the two on vacation. What do you think about that? Why? Why would they ever do that? I mean, it depends. How set up is your business? It's like right now we're in PST, right? So I would wake up at 3 a.m., work till 9 a.m., and the slopes open at 9 a.m., then we go snowboard.

So I was still getting six to seven hours of work a day and right um and then you know enjoy my time after that i love that yeah yeah some people work way too much bro i like your your style six hours a day yeah i mean that's during snowboarding it just depends i do whatever is necessary yeah like i don't really have a specific role it's just whatever my companies need at that point that's what i focus on so weekends are off or no a lot of times they're off um but if i need to get something done of course i'll do it yeah i'm the same way yeah i made that switch about five years in i used to work every day yeah it's it what's the point of life when you do that no point i mean you got people like elon musk that

just like do nothing but work but like at the end of the day you really can't see what he's doing no one he doesn't have a content team following following all day, right? That's true. For him, he could be at the beach and just thinking that's working, right? Because I have this thing that's working. If I can't figure something out or I need to come up with something creative from one of my companies, I'll just go drink by the pool. And my brain just starts working. So that to me, that's work.

Yeah. Drinking by the pool. I feel that. When you hit that money goal you had where you could just retire, what was that like? I still work yeah drinking by the pool i feel that yeah when you hit that money goal you had where you could just retire what was that like i still work i'm not retired um realistically i mean i think we'll see that's my current goal i want to get to half um half a billion in worth and either take out a master loan company and just get skyscrapers or something or maybe is there's a potential exit i don't know yet yeah yeah for me it was when i hit i guess five mil liquid where i realized i

could just retire make five percent a year be fine because i don't buy anything other than food and travel yeah well i noticed with myself like the more i make the more i want to spend it's like yeah the crazier stuff well depends on who you're dating and like other factors but yeah well like it's like i'm going this summer i'm going to greece my buddy owns a um his company his uh family owns a few helicopters so i want to do you know i want to wakeboard off of a helicopter it's like i like doing stuff like that yeah and that sounds expensive whenever the space station in uh in space opens for the hotels and stuff i want to do stuff like that right like i like experiencing life um i want to be flying private, I want to do stuff like that, right? I like experiencing life. I want to be flying private everywhere I go, right?

Like stuff like that. So I definitely have to like keep growing, of course. Private's tough in Miami because out here we got JSX. So we could go private everywhere on the West Coast. I mean, do we have that in Miami? Oh, you do? There's a bunch of companies that offer that.

Oh, okay. But I'm talking about like having your own private jet you know like that kind of stuff there's levels yeah and it's like bro like you could always get a bigger yacht you could always get something it's like does it ever stop that's what i'm wondering same honestly well i i think it doesn't honestly yeah even with money goals when i hit a million i was like that's awesome let me hit 10 million hit that i'm like nothing changed like it's like all right what's the difference between one and ten and then ten to a hundred not that much right exactly and yeah again it depends on what you like to do so like i like throwing massive parties i like how i like bringing out a bunch of girls with me

on trips and stuff like that i like doing stuff and then i like paying for people's experience because like back and back when i was growing up, super poor, had no money for nice food. You know what I mean? I remember my first or second Christmas in the United States, all I got was a bag of oranges. Damn. So me, right now, when I make money and I get to take my friends on vacation, I just took my mom and her boyfriend to the Philippines with me, right? Paid for everything. First class tickets, all that kind of stuff. So it's like, yeah, I just took my mom and her boyfriend to the Philippines with me. Right. Like paid for everything.

First class tickets, all that kind of stuff. So it's like, yeah, I want to be able to do that. I want to be able to do more of that. I want to feed more, more children around the world.

Right. I'm going to donate more money. And it's like, I want to keep growing because I'm what? I'm 29. Yeah. So I know I could do a lot more. Yeah.

You see it as a tool, which it should be. Yeah. I love that. I grew up, didn't eat out also so now when i'm in vegas i eat out at four or five star restaurants or whatever and it's um it's like the best roi for me dude right because i never got to do that growing up yeah i love taking my

friends i think that was my first the first sign i realized like the first thing uh that made me realize like i kind of made it was being able to just go to any restaurant anywhere in the world have as many people as you want 20 35 friends whatever and you don't ever think about the price of the food right ever it doesn't matter where because it's food yeah that i think that's amazing same when i stopped looking at the bill because i used to freak out if i spent more than 20 30 bucks on a meal growing up yeah and now i don't even look at the check yeah i think i think uh we took uh like right before i left miami we had i don't know six seven friends you know get going out miami drinks food nice restaurant you're

looking for a couple of grand and you just drop your card pay i don't even know what i've said okay it doesn't matter i love that that's i think that's one of the coolest things of of life to be able to like provide for people like that. What do you think about the materialistic culture of Miami? I hate it, dude. I fricking hate it. Uh, it's just why it doesn't matter. Like,

yeah, I got, I drive a Lambo. Like I don't care about it. Like I'll beat it up. I don't care if there's scratches or anything. It's just a car. Right.

But people put the value stuff that really doesn't matter. The thing I value the most is experiences. That's why like, I don's why I don't wear jewelry. I don't do any of that stuff. Yeah, I got a bracelet, but it has healing stones on it. It's the only reason I wear it. You could have bought a Richard Millais. Yeah, I could have, but what's the point?

It doesn't make me happy. I don't really care what people think. This is my outfit everywhere I go. I got joggers, a shirt, and some shoes. No designer ever? Well, the shoes. Always the shoes. What are those valencies

valencies yeah valencies are comfy that's why i wear them yeah they're nice and the brand's cool whatever i filled up i uh i think too many people are in that designer trap spending 500 on gucci shirts i mean if you like them but dude designer clothes like they don't fit well like why do people like that yeah unless you're getting up tailored and stuff but like i just think it doesn't impress the the right people like they think it's impressing certain people if you're selling a 30 course or something yeah you it works yeah but like for instance my clients i mean they're multi-millionaires they don't give a yeah like it's how it's how you're spending your time that's what impresses people for sure yeah i pull

up to restaurants in sweatpants sometimes they have to tell me to go buy jeans and i don't care yeah yeah so the way i got around that is like i constantly go to nice restaurants in miami and i always tip the right people yeah nobody gives a oh yeah i'm literally in sweatpants i gotta start doing that i remember i went to i think it might have been 11 in miami and yes that shit happened to me there too. I was in sweatpants. Yeah. Yeah.

All you got to do is just, you go there enough, you tip them a hundred bucks a few times and they're all cool with you. Yeah. Everyone's got a price. Yeah. I mean, like you brought up Dan earlier, like Dan goes in with his shorts or just cargo pants. Yeah.

I see him out here doing that. It's all about your image, man. When enough people know you, they really don't care. And that's the beauty of it that's true have you partied with dan yet no no i i it would be cool is it is there a priority not really because i already kind of do that like we'll throw a bunch of parties with a bunch of girls and it's cool man i love it that's the kind of stuff i'm into right yeah yeah because you didn't have that growing up so now you can finally enjoy it i i never talked to a girl until like sophomore year holy well you gotta remember so i came here i had a huge culture shock i didn't really like get along with people um i was i'm an extreme uh introvert yeah like i

lose energy being around people all the time but it's funny i'm very good at it because like i've practiced and i've practiced build that skill um so i never really like had that many friends growing up i never really had girlfriends when i was younger so now like once and also like i mean for a guy we gotta work and earn our you know what i mean like you can't it doesn't matter how you look as a, but you have to work to get to a certain level for people to even notice you. Right. That's true.

Yeah. And that's where we get our values, what we've put in before. And once we get that, that's why a lot of girls are like, why are you single? Why don't you have, why aren't you married?

It's like, bro, I work so hard. I spent all those years working. I get to enjoy my life now whereas like you know if you're a beautiful girl and you're 18 years old or 20 whatever you get invited to do the craziest things man yeah just for having good looks yeah yeah as a guy looks can't really get you much no you need looks or you need intelligence first then maybe looks are supplemental for a guy i mean like it's like even if you don't look good you can invest in yourself and look better there's you get nicer haircuts nicer clothes you can have a team that does makeup for you whatever like whatever you need yeah you

can work out and get jacked right like uh we're not really um valued as much as our looks are yeah yeah what do you look for in a girl are you even dating right now or not i mean i'm dating a few girls yeah oh so you're poly i don't know how to describe but they know i'm they know i'm with different girls um from what i know not that i've spent a lot of time paying attention to this from what i know they're not seeing other guys but okay it's not really on my mind you don't care um i do because i'll i them off if I know. Okay. But it is what it is. Yeah. I feel that. Yeah.

But what's that attraction for you other than looks? Are they a decent human being? What I like is girls, one, if I see a girl start trying to take advantage of me, I cut her off right away. It's just people that can bring me peace. It's like us guys, we're running businesses. We're running companies. We're running companies. We're in competition all freaking day. We're in a war all day.

Like, if a girl can bring me peace, doesn't talk back, and if I say, hey, go make me a drink, she'll make me a drink. And they'll get me wrong. I take care of my woman, right? Like, you know, get them food, vacation, whatever, right? Like, I'm typically a nice human being. So as long as they take care of me and not like money wise or anything, like literally as simple as, can you make me a drink? When I'm with my friends and they go do it.

That's the kind of stuff that I like. I feel that. So the simple stuff just to ease your mind almost. Yeah. I feel that though. Cause we, we work long hours and stressful and we, we just want to come home not to more problems, but to just comfort. They don't question you.

They just like, they know, you know what you're doing and they just allow you to be you and that's why like i'm super upfront with everyone with all the women i ever meet like they know who i am there's no secrets behind it and i try to be the same person on social media as well even all the videos i make and stuff that's literally my personality like i don't have a reason to hide right i think it's good to be upfront and honest some people take it as an insult but yeah but like i don't care if they do or don't because then if they think that's insultive i don't they don't have to be around me and that that that just eliminates people i don't want to be around yeah that's what i like about it do you balance friendship and co-workers or do you keep it separate i balance it yeah my business partners

are my best friends um like again i was snowboarding with my sales guy yeah it's one of my best friends that's an interesting uh thing to do right because if the business goes bad sometimes it affects the friendship right well like whenever i'm doing like for instance when i'm on a snowboard with my sales guy we're best friends when we're talking about calls and stuff like we know the difference so like he'll say yeah whatever i'll do whatever you need then we're on a snowboard it's completely different interesting yeah so that's that's how i like to not everyone can do that and not everyone if i notice that it starts to affect business i won't do that with that person right but some people you can that makes sense when you

were growing up was money something you really wanted like absolutely you want to become a millionaire and all that absolutely every i remember i was like in high school i think i was in junior it was my junior year i think um i remember i had a friend and i told him i'm gonna have a yacht one day and i remember when i posted that picture on my instagram and i bought one he literally messaged me he was like dude i remember you told me that when you were 17 that's wild yeah and i bought it at what 27, 27? Whatever it was, yeah. That's so cool. What did he end up doing?

He's actually running his own business right now. I think construction or something. Okay. Yeah. That's cool. I had to leave behind a lot of friends from high school, actually. Yeah. Did you have to do that also?

Absolutely. I don't hang out with anyone from high school or college or anyone like that. Damn. No one. That's crazy. Everyone that I hang out with now, I've met through some sort of business so your life is mainly business majority but it's fun as hell like every every like me going to philippines yes i was working yes i had to be with two shifts the morning shift the night shift when we threw bad parties i mean we for our party our company party i ordered 360 liters of beer holy i mean you got

like 100 people right like whatever um we ran out by 2 a.m god we we partied from i think we started at 1 p.m until 7 a.m bro i do this every six months we give away motorcycles we give away like washer machines air conditioning all that kind of stuff um So we have a lot of fun, right? And I try to, every business trip I take, it's always fun. I'll fly out girls, whatever, like same stuff. Yeah, that's a cool company culture, man. I really, I think it's unique. I don't see many people doing this.

Because most people don't realize how to build a business. It's all about people. Like you don't build a company, you don't build a building unless like you're in construction, right? You build people. The more you build people, the better your company is going to be. And that's why, like, dude, literally, I've never had a person quit. Really?

I've never had an employee quit. Wow. When it comes to, of course, sales guys come and go. Yeah. But, like, my support staff never had anyone quit. That's impressive. Because they love that job. I've had people that forcefully had to leave. That's impressive. They love that job. I've had people that forcefully had to leave because of family moving and stuff like that.

But yeah, because of the culture that we built. And you build a strong culture, who wants to leave that? That's rare these days, man. People are leaving jobs every two months these days. Because nobody gives a shit. About them, yeah. Yeah. But you show people you care.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Like I have a spreadsheet with all the employees and their goals are written right next to it. Oh, wow. Like, of course, I don't know all of it, but the team leaders, their response for that department know that. That's really cool. What does the person want? Because once you know what drives people, you know how to help them

and you know how to make them do stuff because you understand who they are and where they want to be yeah because everyone's got different goals whether it's personal goals business all that stuff yeah like my my top manager is like he wanted airbnbs i made sure he could get that in the philippines like he wanted to own them yeah interesting so like okay cool and then you think he'll ever leave no matter how much money he's gonna make from airbnbs he'll never leave he loves it that's so cool man i gotta get out there seems fun yeah i mean asia is really fun i love i love the culture in asia oh it depends like i haven't been to like south korea i haven't been to like japan of course every culture is different but like indonesia um people are super nice philipp, super nice. It's like you ever been to Columbia

or South America. So their culture is really super nice. They love, they have the, some of the best hospitality, but I believe in Philippines, the hospitality is just a little bit better. I got to get out there for sure. I'm a big food guy. So how's the food there? Uh, Philippines, you got a lot of fried chicken and fried pork. Not my style. You wouldn't like the food. Yeah. I wouldn't like it. I'm not big on fried. Be honest. Yeah. That's like major. they're not very healthy they're not i love the honesty they don't work out that's not their culture oh they're all kind of chubby well the chubbier are the more money you have that's how dad bods yeah i'm not a fan of those yeah um

but like you love columbia yeah food's amazing women are amazing i don't i don't you got a girlfriend yeah yeah so i could still admire beauty for what it is i mean dude at the end they were guys yeah we're like we're hardwired to look at how how we reproduce like that's normal and the women are certainly like i've seen a bunch of reels on online so women are starting to realize that like guys are guys yeah that's our genetics we can't help ourselves we were programmed to reproduce yeah and so were the women too they're just they're caretakers we're conquerors right and yeah it's also like how you can explain it like for guys are like how do i explain to to the woman in my life that that's how i am it's like well it's like are you a conqueror

like do you feel like you conquered when you do stuff like whether it's business whether it's woman it's all the same stuff life is the same if you understand how to conquered when you do stuff? Like whether it's business, whether it's women, it's all the same stuff. Life's the same. If you understand how to get girls, you don't understand how to do business. Or if you understand how to do business, you can understand how to get girls. It's all the same stuff. Once you understand how people work, absolutely. Because it's all about people. And business, again, it's all about people.

And if you know how to build people, you know their intentions and motives and what drives them. It's the same thing with talking to a woman or doing a business deal. I'll agree partially. I think there's certain guys with money that can't get girls oh there's a lot money's nothing right money like money helps it's it's just an addition it's just a tool that i know a lot of guys are miserable i mean they can't pull even with all the money in the world because you gotta you gotta be good with people. With social skills. Yeah, that's it. But we're both introverts, and we know how to flip that switch. That's the thing. Yeah, like you've been – I don't know how many people you've talked to today.

Eight. I've seen people, yeah, go in and out of the office all day. But like then you go home, you recharge. Yeah. Yeah, you got to have a good balance. And one of my best friends, he's completely an extrovert. Like I've never met somebody so extrovert. Has to be around people all day because that's how he feels good.

Happens to be my best friend. So you guys balance each other? Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. I don't know how extroverts do it, man. I get drained after podcasting. Yeah, you got to recharge. And that's why I like doing fun stuff.

That's why I always incorporate fun stuff when I'm doing business because that's what helps me recharge I tell my employees the only thing I gotta be doing is the really high level stuff or having fun if I'm not having fun I cannot provide the job that I provide for you

I love that so that's why you like partying it's cool getting to understand your psyche and like dude my clients too a lot of them they're not like me but they understand who I am and they're like cool like if you if you were

just only work i wouldn't even trust you i've had clients tell me that really yeah they love it like yeah of course some people get turned off that i'm with girls or partying and stuff and that i don't want them as a client but because i only want to work with cool people wow that's cool i love that well vlad it's been fun anything you want to work with cool people. Wow. That's cool. I love that. Well, Vlad, it's been fun. Anything you want to promote or close off with, man? No, I don't see. I appreciate being on here. And yeah, it was definitely a pleasure meeting you, man.

Well, where can people find you? My Instagram, you can search Vladislav Verzhuk or it's VladdyOfficial or inopoliautomation.com. Cool. We'll link it below. Thanks for coming on, man. Yeah, of course. Appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for watching, guys.

See you tomorrow.