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This Week in Startups

Andrew Wilkinson on bringing the Buffett approach to startups, WeCommerce, Slack & more | E1174

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Check out Tiny: https://www.tinycapital.com
FOLLOW Andrew: https://twitter.com/awilkinson
FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

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slash twist. Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of

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this week in Startups today on the program. Andrew Wilkinson is with us. He is

1:06.2

the founder of metal lab, which is owned by Tiny. And he has used the

1:12.3

profits from metal lab to make tiny into a really interesting, I guess, holding

1:18.4

company of a bunch of other businesses that many of us know like dribble or

1:23.5

we work remotely. So welcome to the program. Andrew Wilkinson. Thanks Jason.

1:27.7

It's great to be here. Am I correct in understanding that what you've

1:30.8

built? Well, since you've been doing metal lab in 2006, you started with an

1:36.4

agency that helped build beautiful products. Famously, Uber Eats Google and

1:42.9

Slack work. I don't know what you did for Google, but I remember the Slack

1:46.2

work and Uber Eats work. And that agency did so well. You had profits that

1:51.6

let you start tiny, which I guess some people refer to as tiny capital, but

1:55.5

you buy businesses with the profits from your consulting businesses. Is that

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