Part 2 – How a Guy in Canada Built 3 Multi-Million Dollar Businesses by Age 30
Andrew Wilkinson is the founder of MetaLab and Flow. Metalab is a design agency that Andrew founded when he was just 20 years old and has grown it into a business with over 60 employees. MetaLab is the design team behind Slack which is now valued at $2.8 billion. And Flow is a task management SaaS application for teams which is used by companies like Etsy, Tesla, Adobe, and TED.
In this episode we talk about:
- How Andrew built 3 multi-million dollar businesses by the age of 30
- How he works 5-6 hours a day and gets 8 hours sleep every night
- How Andrew went from thinking he could be successful at anything, having some failures and then learning to focus on what he was best at
- And we'll talk about how Andrew embarrassed himself in front of Steve Jobs
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Success Quote
- “Screw It, Let's Do It” — Richard Branson
Book Recommendation
- “Rework” by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson – Amazon.com | Audible
Links, Resources & People Mentioned
- Metalab
- Ballpark
- Flow
- Pixel Union
- OmniFocus
- Tumbler
- David Karp – @davidkarp
Contact Information
- Andrew Wilkinson – @awilkinson
- Omer Khan – @omerkhan
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