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I Ranked the Best & WORST Businesses to Start Before 2026 | Andr…
1:20:11
#815Nov 7, 2025

I Ranked the Best & WORST Businesses to Start Before 2026 | Andr…

Which business model should you start? Get Andrew's cheat sheet with his full ranking and real profit margins here: https://clickhubspot.com/dge Episode 762: What’s the best business to start in 2026? Agencies, SaaS, Restaurants, Real Estate, Marketplaces. Angel Investing; Andrew Wilkinson has played every game. He built 38 companies, lost $10 million, and still ended up with a $300 million portfolio. This week, @shaanpuri spoke with him about: the best and worst business models to win in 2026 starting Tiny with just $4M (now $250M) the truth behind the Twitter hate on Tiny’s stock why buying companies beats building them His is not a redemption story. It is the unapologetic reality of building, failing, and getting back up. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:06) MLM (4:28) Freelancer (5:07) Agency (9:33) SaaS (14:48) Restaurant  (17:03) Marketplace (19:43) Short Term Rentals (20:52) Content Creator (23:06) Real Estate (26:16) Fund Management  (35:21) Local Services (36:36) Investing (38:12) Sweaty Startup (43:15) Tiny stock performance (52:20) The courage to be disliked (1:10:21) Inputs v outputs — Links: • Tiny - https://tiny.com/  • Never Enough - https://www.neverenough.com/  • Serato - https://serato.com/  • Rekordbox - https://rekordbox.com • Pershing Square Holdings - https://pershingsquareholdings.com/  • Invest Like The Best - https://www.youtube.com/@ILTB_Podcast  • The Courage To Be Disliked - https://tinyurl.com/5fk3sa79  — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com  • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano //

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How I Made My First $1M - The Andrew Wilkinson Story
58:04
#658Jul 5, 2024

How I Made My First $1M - The Andrew Wilkinson Story

Episode 604: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Andrew Wilkinson ( https://x.com/awilkinson ) about how he went from a $6.50/hr barista to millionaire in just 4 years.  — Show Notes:  (1:00) From barista to billionaire (1:40) Andrew’s 1st level up: From day job to self employed (3:26) Shaan 1st money made as an entrepreneur (4:40) Sam’s 1st money as an entrepreneur (7:15) Andrew’s 2nd level up: From self employed to boss  (8:40) From selling your time to selling other people's time (9:30) Book: The E-Myth (Thinking of your business as a machine) (10:10) Andrew makes his first million dollars profit (12:00) Robert Kiyosaki’s cashflow quadrant (13:20) Andrew’s 3rd level up: Incubating Businesses - The decathlon of failed businesses (17:00) Andrew sells one of his businesses and creates a nest egg (18:45) Andrew discovers Warren Buffet’s teachings and starts learning to invest. (19:48) Andrew's 20% rule (20:33) Sam's pauper tendencies (22:58) Andrew starts angel investing (24:00) Andrew starts hiring CEOs and removes himself from his businesses (28:30) Poker v Roulette in investing (31:20) Andrew’s 4th level up: Taking his company public and reaching the end goal. However money didn’t buy happiness.  (33:46) What’s the actual amount that will make you happy? (34:37) Business is a good way to build relationships (35:35) Figuring out your annual burn rate (36:48) The goals every entrepreneur should have. Launchpad. Enough. Life’s Work (38:23) $10M = financial freedom (41:28) It doesn’t take a special skill set to get to financial independence (46:41) Shaan’s learns about the deferred life plan  — Links: • Never Enough - https://www.neverenough.com/ (⬅️ Andrew’s book!) • The E-Myth - https://shorturl.at/h7Q1J • Rich Dad Poor Dad - https://shorturl.at/S28Dd • How To Get Rich - https://shorturl.at/pGTSm — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story
1:09:49
#572Nov 22, 2023

Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story

Episode 521:Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk to Andrew Wilkinson about the “Profit First” strategy, how to be a master networker, and his Barnacle On The Whale Strategy for growing 10x with zero marketing. No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) Business on hard mode vs. easy mode (12:00) Cliffs Notes for “Profit First” (19:30) Leveraging incentives (24:00) Breakdown: Holdco acquisition funnels (28:00) Andrew sends Sam a private jet (32:30) Shooting your shot with your heroes (38:00) Crashing the Oscars afterparty (43:00) Buying vs earning your way into the room (47:00) POV: Peter Attia is your doctor (50:00) Barnacle on the Whale Strategy (57:00) People always suffer in silence (1:00:00)Hitting rock bottom — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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Andrew Wilkinson