Part 2 – How a Guy in Canada Built 3 Multi-Million Dollar Businesses by Age 30 – with Andrew Wilkinson [077]
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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