#322. How to Make Millions by Serial Entrepreneurs - Elliot Wise

Dodge Woodall

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5 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Elliot Wise is a British entrepreneur who built his first business in his teens and hasn’t stopped since.From a small design hustle to running successful brands and selling companies, Elliot shares how he rebuilt after being betrayed by a business partner and why most people are sold a lie about what business is really like.We talk about the pressure behind the scenes, the myth of “easy money,” and why most of what you see online is nonsense.

Elliot also opens up on hiring, education, mental health, and why he doesn’t plan to retire.

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0:00.0	For you to be naive enough to think that anything in life that is worth having is easy, is nonsensical and you're going to lose before you even start. If you are a true entrepreneur, you have the ability to build the game you never want to stop playing. You said you've got the boomers. They're the ones we listen to. They've got the power, they've got the authority. The boomers killed it. Boomers, like a 60 year old plus now. I've got more money than anyone. Gen Zs get a lot of stick. I think they're a lost generation. And what I'm seeing is the younger generation wanting to be entrepreneurs with social media, telling them that this is cool.
0:30.4	But it's the iceberg syndrome. You never see the work that happens below it. So everyone's trying to get to a fictitious goal where they've completed the game.
0:38.0	The people that build their wealth through blood, sweat and tears over a prolonged period of time are the ones most likely to keep it. Build your life like the game you never want to stop playing. In upon an amount of levels, you can progress as much as you possibly want and realize that actually the enjoyment isn't in getting the goal. it's in progressing towards a better you.
0:36.6	One thing I've noticed with successful entrepreneur actually, the enjoyment isn't in kidding the goal, it's in progressing towards a better you.
0:55.7	One thing I've noticed with successful entrepreneurs is one massive common trait.
1:00.3	They are very, very good with them.
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1:31.0	Elliot, welcome to the show.
1:32.4	Thanks for having me.
1:33.2	Yeah.
1:33.5	Nice little setup.
1:34.4	It's lovely little set up, isn't it?
1:35.4	Yeah, it's cozy.
1:36.4	It's cozy.
1:37.2	Let's get the ball rolling.
1:39.4	Who is Elliot Wise?
1:42.0	Elevator pitch.
1:44.2	Born entrepreneur.
1:46.1	Start up my first web design business at 13 after realizing that the system wasn't for me.
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