Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos Feuds with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson), Co-Founder of Tiny, joins Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) to talk about how he found joy through a four-week dopamine fast, why it can be better to make safer “cruise ship investments” rather than startup investments, how Andrew’s last appearance led him to start a D2C maternal healthy company, and much more. --------- * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. --------- Show Notes: * 00:20 - Andrew’s monk-like retreat from technology * 01:45 - What triggered his “digital meltdown” * 09:20 - The power of a 4-week dopamine fast * 22:40 - Why Andrew bought Aeropress * 30:45 - “Cruise ship investing” vs “speed boat investing” * 37:30 - The benefits (or lack thereof) of being famous * 39:33 - How coming on MFM led Andrew to be able to start a DTC pregnancy health company * 49:15 - Readwise and the Feynman method for learning * 52:41 - The pitfall of constant optimization * 01:07:35 - When Andrew met Steve Jobs * 01:17:32 - Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos’s Twitter beef --------- Links: * Tiny * JoelOnSoftware.com * Wanting * Readwise * Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage * Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos Thread

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0:00.0	All right, QuickBag to tell you about another podcast that we're interested in right now.
0:04.4	Hosepot just launched a Shark Tank rewatch podcast called Another Bite.
0:08.9	Every week, the host relived the latest and greatest pitches from Shark Tank, from Squatty
0:13.1	Potty, to the Mention a Bench, to Ring Doorbell, and they break down why these pitches were
0:18.6	winners or losers, and each company's go-to-market strategy, branding, pricing, valuation, everything.
0:24.2	Basically, all the things you want to know about how to survive the tank and scale your
0:28.4	company on your own.
0:29.6	If you want to give it a listen, you can find another bite on whatever podcast that you
0:32.9	listen to, like Apple or Spotify, or whatever you're using right now.
0:36.2	All right, back to the show.
0:37.2	Because I was like, pipe that content into my ears baby while I'm falling asleep.
0:41.5	I don't want to fall asleep.
0:43.5	I want to be entertained and pass out.
0:46.2	I feel like I could rule the world.
0:48.2	I know I could be what I want to.
0:51.0	I put my all in it like no days on.
0:53.4	On a road, let's travel, never look at it.
0:55.9	Ready?
0:56.9	Andrew, what's going on?
0:57.9	Yeah.
0:58.9	I'm no see.
0:59.9	Yeah, man, you went off the deep end.
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