#185 with Andrew Wilkinson - The Secretive Billionaire Who Acquired Burger King, Creating Better Babies & How Much Money is Enough?

**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.
And you said you'd want to invest your own money in this. That's what you've said here.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (1:07)
Yeah, I would love, if anyone wants to do this, I will 100% invest. So please email me.
But this is one of those things where like...

**Sam Parr** (1:25)
All right, everyone, we have a special episode with Andrew Wilkinson. Andrew Wilkinson started this company called MetaLab, which grew to make tens of millions of dollars and using the profits from his agency, MetaLab, he eventually bought dozens of more companies. So collectively, his companies do hundreds of millions of dollars a year in sales and have created over a billion dollars worth of value. So he's seen a lot of interesting stuff. And in today's episode, we talk about an incredibly successful business person that he looks up to. It's our segment called Billy of the Week. And then we talk about some of the ideas that he has for starting growing companies. He currently launched a local news business. So it's kind of like my company, The Hustle, but for different cities, it's very fascinating. I'm asking him if I can join as an advisor. And then he started a few more things or wants to start more stuff. And he's even said that if you are starting some of these companies to holler at him, because he wants to invest. So give it a listen. And by the way, if you're in Miami, Shaan and I on June 4th, they're gonna be in Miami. We're doing Austin on June 3rd, but that's already sold out. But June 4th, we have room for up to 400 people. I think already 200 people have RSV feed. It's free.
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Hope you enjoy the episode. Andrew, what's going on, dude?

**Andrew Wilkinson** (3:18)
Hey man, how you doing?
I spent all day yesterday with Kleenex up my nose. So if my voice sounds a little froggy, that's why.

**Sam Parr** (3:28)
It only sounds froggy because you said it sounded froggy. I think you're okay.
So Andrew Wilkinson, good friend of mine, good friend of the pod. Is this description that I used three or four weeks ago the same description? Is that the same thing? Are you wearing that same personality? Is that the same life or have you done something new and amazing because you're always there pulling something out of your sleeve?

**Andrew Wilkinson** (3:47)
Yeah, I've got, I think since then, I've launched a couple of businesses actually, but no, the description is still accurate.