Andrew Wilkinson
27 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 26, 2022 by Andrew Wilkinson · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2024 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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Wilkinson spent $60,000 on a charity lunch to diligence Bill Ackman
“What I ended up doing is I spent 60,000 dollars bidding on a charity lunch where I'm like, okay, I get to donate charity. I get to meet this interesting guy. And my plan was that if he was an asshole, I would sell all of it as soon as we got out. And if I like…”
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Wilkinson netted over $10 million selling his first business in 2013
“What ended up happening was in 2013, I sold my first business. I was kind of burnt out. And a friend of mine just said, Hey, look, why don't you just sell one, take some money off the table de-risk a little bit. And so I did that. And suddenly I had, you know,…”
Jul 26, 2022 bullish
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Losing money on civic placemaking projects is ultimately worth it
“Directionally, I think that sort of thing is worth losing money on. And I think I can crack it over time. And if it results in the city being more interesting or bringing, you know, more interesting people here, it'll benefit the city. It'll benefit me.”
Jul 26, 2022 positive
Living in Victoria protects Wilkinson from mimetic status competition
“The people that I'm surrounded with are mostly people who have chosen to live in Victoria because of the lifestyle. Or are completely disconnected from business. And so while I've got a wonderful network of amazing people like you and people in New York and LA…”
Jul 26, 2022
High-dopamine stimulation destroys baseline pleasure and causes misery
“If you eat chocolate cake once a month, it's really pleasurable. If you eat chocolate cake once a week, it's pretty good. If you eat it daily, it's okay. But then your brain starts demanding it hourly. And if you do that, it's just miserable. And I think we al…”
Jul 26, 2022
Holding company founders stay involved from an addiction to being needed
“The way that I've structured my business is that I am ultimately just making decisions around capital allocation, and there's not that many to make a year, and so I should be able, technically, I should be able to remove myself from a lot of that stuff, but I …”
Jul 26, 2022 bearish
Tiny avoids capital-intensive sectors to focus on predictable businesses
“Now I really focus on businesses where I think that I can predict the outcome where, with reasonable certainty, and I'm not having to compete with the venture folks. So I don't want to get into AI and drones and, you know, vaccines. I don't want to get into ar…”
Jul 26, 2022 bearish
Wilkinson refuses to raise another fund to avoid managing outside capital
“Owing people things or letting anyone down, and so I don't know that I'll raise another fund. All of our investors have been wonderful. We've had no issues. People have been very supportive. We've done good deals. They're all probably going to make a lot of mo…”
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Founders should hire imperfect candidates quickly rather than delaying execution
“God, you should have just hired the wrong person first, and then you can learn, you know, you can let them go if it's not a fit, but just get moving. So many people they try and use that saying that carpenters use measure twice, cut once, but they just end up …”
Jul 26, 2022 negative
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Wilkinson gives his wife his Screen Time passcode to restrict usage
“What I have had to do in my personal life is turn on screen time on my phone and give my wife the passcode, not have ice cream in the house, you know, all those things. Treat myself like a, you know, alcoholic or something when it comes to these stimulus devic…”
Jul 26, 2022 positive
Publicly announcing new projects creates social accountability that drives execution
“So it's those kind of, I think a lot of those kind of hacks of like not letting ideas die on the vine, forcing it to become real creating social shame if I don't actually execute on it. And again, that's a double-edged sword as well because you get into consis…”