Gary Vaynerchuk is an American entrepreneur, four-time New York Times bestselling author, speaker and internet personality. First known as a leading wine critic who grew his family's wine business from $3 million to $60 million, Vaynerchuk is best known as a digital marketing and social-media pioneer at the helm of New York-based VaynerMedia and VaynerX. Vaynerchuk has made a number of personal investments as an angel investor including Facebook, Uber, Twitter, Venmo and dozens of other startups. In 2017 Entrepreneur magazine put Vaynerchuk's net worth at $160 million.