Andrew Wilkinson

50 statements across 8 episodes · 23 bullish · 15 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 19, 2022 by Andrew Wilkinson · said 39 times in 17 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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May 19, 2022 negative
What-if
Wilkinson: Moving to San Francisco would have prevented building a profitable business
“I don't think I'd have a profitable at scale business today if I had moved to San Francisco.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 24:18 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
May 19, 2022 positive
Insight
Wilkinson: Reinvesting 80% and compounding creates more wealth than VC unicorns
“Once I understood compounding and I could do basic math, I realized that I was going to be way wealthier than any of the people that I knew, even the people who had billion dollar companies, because I just knew that if I was compounding my capital and reinvest…”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 40:56 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
May 19, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Wilkinson: Buying rural ranches for remote work overlooks logistics and isolation
“I think it sounds like a dream, but I think it's oversimplification. I think it's like saying like, oh, I'll have a baby and it's going to be awesome. Cause it's going to have cute little feet and it's going to look like me. And they're not imagining two AM wa…”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 1:14 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
May 19, 2022
Disclosure
Wilkinson delegates a screen time passcode to cap his daily social media
“I also use screen time very aggressively. So I have somebody else set my screen time passcode. I totally limit my ability to look at news, social media for more than about two to three minutes a day. And that has really deprogrammed my brain.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 15:19 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
May 19, 2022 negative
Insight
Wilkinson: Extravagant wealth worsens friendships through awkwardness and status anxiety
“Well, maybe that's worse because everyone feels indebted to you and they're awkward about it. And there's all this status. Like I think wealth just in many ways just makes that stuff worse.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 50:53 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
May 19, 2022 negative
Opinion
Wilkinson: There is no upside to following real-time news
“I just don't think there's any upside in looking at what's happening in the moment.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 21:42 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
May 19, 2022 negative
Opinion
Wilkinson: Raising from Sequoia brings intense pressure that ruins founders' lives
“Like Sequoia who are like the most intense MFers in the world just joined the board. They're going to hold a gun to that person's head and say, you need to grow your company, 300% a year. You need to spend as much money as possible to go there, and that CEO's …”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 39:45 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
May 19, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Wilkinson: Month-long detox was first 24-hour device break in 20 years
“It was the first time in 20 years I'd been without a device for more than 24 hours effectively.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 10:31 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
May 19, 2022 bullish
Disclosure
Wilkinson: Investing in stealth startup using dopamine loops for education
“There's actually a company I'm investing in right now. I think it's still stealth, so I won't, I'll be vague, but effectively what they're trying to do, they're a bunch of very experienced people in the gaming industry And they're trying to use this same dopam…”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 12:28 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
May 19, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Wilkinson: Keeps Daily iPhone Reminder That Being Bored or Sad Is Okay
“I actually have an iPhone reminder every day and it just says being bored or sad is okay.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 30:57 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
Aug 10, 2023 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Andrew Wilkinson drives Twitter subscriptions by raffling monthly one-on-one video calls
“Andrew Wilkinson, the founder of Tiny Capital, has, like, a Twitter subscription, and it's, like, I don't know, 40 dollars or something, 30 or 40 dollars a month... He's gonna, like, pick someone random from his audience every month and have a thirty-minute co…”
Greg Isenberg Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 39:27 How to Turn a Podcast into an Empire
May 1, 2024
Disclosure
Courtney: AJ&Smart explored an acquisition with Andrew Wilkinson's team
“I've spoken to people about selling AJ and smart. I actually probably someone you also know, I was chatting with someone on Andrew Wilkinson's team.”
Jonathan Courtney May 1, 2024 ▶ 1:00:46 This legend gave away 3 crazy cash-flowing business ideas
Oct 14, 2024 positive
Opinion
Wilkinson: Robot lawnmower affiliate sites can generate $300K to $1M annually
“The digital version of it where you do lawnmower reviews or whatever, I think is relatively scalable. It's probably like a business. You can make like 300 K to a million dollars a year, but the physical stuff is much more for the scrappy person who doesn't kno…”
Andrew Wilkinson Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 8:18 6 startup ideas from the Tech Warren Buffett (make $120k/mo)
Oct 14, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Wilkinson: I have completely replaced Google with Perplexity and ChatGPT
“I don't use Google anymore. Like for everything I go on perplexity or chat GPT now.”
Andrew Wilkinson Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 14:16 6 startup ideas from the Tech Warren Buffett (make $120k/mo)
Oct 14, 2024
Insight
Wilkinson: People who want to be billionaires actually just want close friends
“Most people think they want to be a billionaire. What they actually want is to be a friend billionaire.”
Andrew Wilkinson Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 50:00 6 startup ideas from the Tech Warren Buffett (make $120k/mo)
Oct 14, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Wilkinson and Isenberg will fund founders launching at-home sperm freezing startups
“If anyone's listening to this and wants to start this business they should email me and Greg, cause we will fund you.”
Andrew Wilkinson Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 42:29 6 startup ideas from the Tech Warren Buffett (make $120k/mo)
Oct 14, 2024 positive
Insight
Wilkinson: Starting entrepreneurs should first build a $100k-$200k/year launchpad business
“I always think the goal for any entrepreneur starting out is to make a hundred to 200 K a year. After that, everything is upside and gravy, but that gives you the launch pad with which to launch the good businesses. So you need the mediocre business first usua…”
Andrew Wilkinson Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 8:44 6 startup ideas from the Tech Warren Buffett (make $120k/mo)
Nov 20, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Girdley: Tiny operates both a holding company and a fund management arm
“Like Tiny, so Andrew Wilkinson's business, like they have their businesses that are owned as a hold co But then they also have a fund management business that they run where they raise money from outsiders to go buy businesses that they then oversee as part of…”
Michael Girdley Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 30:21 How to start a Holding Company (full tutorial)
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Wilkinson built an automated local newsletter with Lindy AI in an hour
“I recently, I own like a local newsletter business and I was goofing around with Lindy and I was able in about an hour to build a Lindy agent that could go through. It would basically like choose this. I chose a city like a city near me. And I said, every day …”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 16:10 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 24, 2025 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Wilkinson: Standalone apps like Cal AI will face 100 clones within months
“There's tons of those, but there's going to be like a hundred of them in the app store in like two months. And then Cal AI will not be able to charge what they are.”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 15:44 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Wilkinson built a Lindy agent to triage email and draft rejections
“I built a Lindy agent that kind of does what you're talking about. So it ingests every single email that I get and then it labels it or archives it based on context. And I have all these examples of like different kinds of emails and whatever. And then if it's…”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 27:06 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Insight
Wilkinson: AI agents make administratively heavy business models commercially viable
“Previously someone would say this to me and I would just say like, no, because it's an administrative nightmare and you need to have an army of accountants and lawyers to do it all. And it just wouldn't make sense. But I think now, It totally makes sense to th…”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 46:12 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 24, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: Almost all current AI businesses will be zeros in five years
“To be clear, I'm still saying almost all these businesses will be zeros in five years.”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 46:46 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: Manus AI accurately ranked 50 job applicants in 30 minutes
“I took all those emails, I exported them out of Gmail as a zip and I uploaded 50 candidates to Manus. And then it just spent 30 minutes scoring them all based on what I needed. And it was like, these are the best three people. And then I just focused on those …”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 26:06 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: Device controllers like Apple will capture most consumer AI value
“The people that will ultimately capture a lot of this value are going to be whoever controls the devices. Because I do believe like a lot of these LLM a lot of this functionality will ultimately be implemented.”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 20:13 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Wilkinson: Vibe is a short-term cash-flow opportunity, not a durable business
“A hundred percent. This is a Cal AI. This is like your, I want like some college kid who's like, I want to get in and get out. I want to come in. I want to get it to a couple million dollars of ARR. I want to cashflow it. And then maybe it's a thing in two yea…”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 51:51 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 24, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: I spent $30,000 hiring an agency to build Vibe AI
“And so I hired a agency that I know. And for, you know, 30 grand, we threw together this app called vibe it's in the app store.”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 50:28 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: An AI text message coaching app will easily make $1M
“I think this is a one year business. I think this is easy to copy. I think someone will copy this idea when I share it, they'll make a million dollars. It's not a longterm business, but it's a cool idea.”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 39:13 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Wilkinson: Building around Anthropic's Model Context Protocol is a massive opportunity
“I actually think that might be like my first million kind of opportunity for somebody to really do MCP right.”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 28:37 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Insight
Isenberg: A followed holding company brand boosts hiring and acquisitions across products
“You know, if it's like tiny tiny, like Andrew Wilkinson, or late checkout, like us, like we end up building these private equity groups almost, that a holding company that people like to follow, it just helps all your products, both from a hiring perspective, …”
Greg Isenberg Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 24:12 I Used AI to Build 4 $1M+/year businesses (FULL Playbook)
May 4, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: Customer support will not be a human job very soon
“Like support to me is not a job very, very soon.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 11:29 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: Basic businesses will be fully run by AI in 3-6 months
“And I think that we're probably three to six months out from being able to just can businesses off to AI to run at least basic businesses like this.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 12:28 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Wilkinson: Spent $80k to $100k on AI tokens building personality app
“I probably spent like 80 or a hundred honestly.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 30:19 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Wilkinson: AI Health Agent Simulates Multi-Doctor Team for Medical Inquiries
“If I ask it a question, it's prompted to use max intelligence. So let's say I said Hey, should I take this medication? It will spin up a rheumatologist, a you know internist, like every type of doctor as a clod expert with extra high thinking, and it will do a…”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 44:35 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026
Disclosure
Wilkinson: Family office invested $16M across 132 venture bets, now worth $36M
“I can see that I've made 132 direct investments. I invested sixteen million. It's now worth thirty six million.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 21:59 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 neutral
Insight
Wilkinson: AI Agent Productivity Tooling Sinks 80% of Time into Maintenance
“And the problem is that I feel like I'm spending 50% of my time debugging it and 50% of my time, maybe 30% of my time making it better and then 20% of my time being productive. So it's like the classic productivity treadmill.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 4:34 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026
Disclosure
Wilkinson Records Daily Audio to Contextualize AI Agents via GBrain
“And so I record my entire day and then G brain ingests it and it just knows context. And then my open claw agents have full context.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 38:33 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 bearish
Disclosure
Wilkinson: Tiny Intervenes in Software Portfolio Businesses Over AI Risk
“The challenge in tiny is that we Are generally pretty hands off and where we're really leaning in is in a lot of the software businesses, because those are the ones that are at the most risk.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 24:05 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Wilkinson indexed his email archive in GBrain to profile contacts
“Basically what I did is I ingested all of my email and I said, Hey, I want you to go through my email a thousand at a time and I want you to draw connections and I want you to build pages for everybody that I know. So basically I have a page on Every, every pe…”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 36:16 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Wilkinson: Non-technical CFO built portfolio tracking tool in one week via Claude
“But anyway, this was built by my CFO. He's never coded in his life. Like when I told him about cloud code and that he should check it out, he's like, I don't know how to code. Like I'm not technical. And literally within like a week, I'm so lucky that he's the…”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 32:49 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Wilkinson: Holding company spends $40k/month on Claude instead of hiring
“So instead of a payroll, we just have a 40,000 dollar a month Claude bill. And it's doing everything.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 30:57 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Wilkinson: AI Health Agent Detects Nerve Pain Flares via Wrist Temperature
“And then I have this weird viral nerve pain that I get. And it looked through my data over the last five years and said, oh, I've correlated it. And I see that every time you get that flare, Your risk temperature changes for three days before. And so it tells …”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 44:11 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 negative
Opinion
Wilkinson: Employees are unreliable and fail to understand founder vision
“You know, if I was using employees they're unreliable. They don't see my vision. They don't understand every aspect of design.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 8:40 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 negative
Insight
Wilkinson: Creativity is compromised by the number of intermediaries in execution
“And I think that creativity is just compromised based on how the number of people between your vision and execution.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 8:03 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: Built and Runs a SaaS Business Entirely Autonomously via OpenClaw
“And so as a test, before I started doing this in our operating businesses, I basically built a business a SaaS business, and then I've been running it entirely autonomously using OpenClaw.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 3:20 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: Home services and brick-and-mortar face robotics risk in 10-20 years
“I'm either buying like something with a moat, which is very, very hard to find certainly in technology right now home services, businesses, like very, very brick and mortar kind of stuff. But even that I think is at risk with robotics over the next 1020 years.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 26:43 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Wilkinson: AI agent turns executive communications into multiple-choice Telegram prompts
“So, and then it drafts in my voice, different response options. So I can just respond in line and telegram and say one B. And so it turns your entire business into a multiple choice quiz basically. So every day I just get like 20 different messages, their emai…”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 40:12 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 positive
Opinion
Wilkinson: AI is incredibly accurate at interpreting psychological screening tests
“Like I'm using psychological screens that are supposed to be interpreted by a psychologist, but I'm not a psychologist. I'm using AI to do it. And I think it's incredibly accurate.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 18:36 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Wilkinson: Many previously high-quality businesses are now 'cigar butts'
“And I think a lot of previously high quality businesses that would be like a gourmet cigar from a cigar shop are now cigar butts.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 29:39 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 4, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Wilkinson: OpenClaw agents still require micromanagement, not true delegation
“Like I think open claw agents are still like zap. They're basically like zap your zaps, but that can make basic decisions and have intelligence, but you still have to tell them step by step. This is how I want you to think. This is how I want you to operate. L…”
Andrew Wilkinson May 4, 2026 ▶ 16:37 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
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