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My First Million

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

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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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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