#169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How to Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. Talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's Podcast Network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (1:01)
It was pretty crazy. I got a chance to talk to Warren Buffett on the phone.
Some guy I was talking to, I was saying, I'm trying to figure out philanthropy and how to give money away. And literally he goes, oh, you should talk to Warren Buffett. And I was like, what do you mean? And then he just CC introed me to Warren Buffett. It was one of the weirdest things that's ever happened to me. And it was amazing. And I was kind of nervous. Like Warren Buffett's like my hero. I was never not expecting this. It was just like a random Friday.
And Warren Buffett's secretary emails me back and just says, oh yeah, call him whenever he'll pick up. And so I call and I get put right through. And it's just Warren freaking Buffett on the phone. And basically he said, oh yeah, I'm not doing anything. I can talk for as long as you want. And I just got to pick his brain for an hour.
And it was insanely inspiring.

**Sam Parr** (2:09)
Sean is out with his new baby. I asked Andrew to come on and do this. And I wanted to do a special segment today called Billy of the Week. We actually used to do these at the end of some episodes, but people liked it. And I want to do them more often. I asked Andrew to come on. And we have two people who were ready to discuss.
And Andrew, Andrew doesn't know the format. The way that... Here's what I wanted to do. I'll go first because I think I did more research than you. But it looks like you actually did a fair bit.
I'll go first. I'm going to tell you who I'm talking about, and I'm going to explain to you why they're interesting. And then maybe... And I picked this person on purpose. Maybe you can tell me who or what other opportunities are in this space.
And I picked someone similar to you. But the guy is probably twice your age. So he's further along his journey.
But I think it's interesting to you. But we can also talk about anything else we want to talk about as we go.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (3:00)
Yeah, sounds awesome.

**Sam Parr** (3:03)
Also, what's going on? How are you? Are you enjoying being the CEO or the founder of a publicly traded company?

**Andrew Wilkinson** (3:10)
Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. It's like...
You know, when you start your company, it's really exhilarating.
You know, you have your first employees, you start dealing with problems, and you've never done it before. And so your stress level is like 10 out of 10 when you're first doing it. You're like, I don't know what matters. I don't know what best practices are. If I have a problem with an employee, how do I deal with it? All that kind of stuff. It's that same learning curve. So it's like incredibly exhilarating and exciting having a public company. It's like a huge milestone. But at the same time, I'm like, I'm like a new entrepreneur.
I don't know what actually matters, who to listen to, where to focus sometimes. And that's just... You do anything new, and it's stressful. So it's been stressful, for sure. But now I feel like we're on the other side of it. We're starting to feel...