Tiny Capital

also referred to as: tiny · tiny holdings

8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 26, 2022 by Andrew Wilkinson · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Jul 26, 2022
Insight
Wilkinson uses babysitting and cruise ship tests to evaluate prospective CEOs
“The heuristic that my business partner Chris and I use is, would I let this person babysit my kids, right? Or would I be okay if I got stuck on a cruise ship talking to this person for like three days, right?”
Andrew Wilkinson Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 25:23 Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
Jul 26, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Wilkinson made hundreds of millions of dollars in a single year
“When I woke up on August first you know, I'd made hundreds of millions of dollars that year taking a company public.”
Andrew Wilkinson Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 1:04:19 Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
Jul 26, 2022
Insight
Later-stage CEOs should have previously run a business double the size
“So what I look for in a later stage company profile is I say, I want to hire someone who's really kind of done this before in a similar or adjacent industry. And they've run a business that's at least double the size.”
Andrew Wilkinson Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 21:46 Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
Jul 26, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Andrew Wilkinson wholly owns 40 companies
“40. That I wholly own.”
Andrew Wilkinson Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 14:04 Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
Jul 26, 2022
Insight
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 …”
Andrew Wilkinson Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 14:52 Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
Jul 26, 2022 bearish
Disclosure
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…”
Andrew Wilkinson Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 20:06 Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
Jul 26, 2022 bearish
Disclosure
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…”
Andrew Wilkinson Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 49:17 Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
Jul 26, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Tiny hired the former president of SodaStream to run AeroPress
“When we bought AeroPress about six months ago we hired the CEO, former president of SodaStream, and, you know, he had scaled that business to over two hundred million.”
Andrew Wilkinson Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 21:58 Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
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