Why Is Andrew Wilkinson Monetizing His Twitter Followers?

**Andrew Wilkinson** (0:00)
That's like $800,000 of recurring revenue. If I get 2.5%, that's $2 million. If I do 5%, that's $4 million.
And if you just think about, what would I pay for a business that makes me that much money a year? Like this is like $5, $10, $15 million of value. And so I'm looking at it and going, this is great, I'd pay for what I'm getting.

**Sam Parr** (0:30)
Alright, what's going on everyone? We have Andrew Wilkinson on the pod today. Andrew is one of our great, great friends. He runs this company called Tiny, which is publicly traded in Canada. It's a holding company that owns like 40 different companies. I think it's publicly traded at like a $800 million market cap. Something like that does 150-ish a year in revenue. So he's got really good insight. And we talked to him about a few interesting things. One thing that sounds kind of like not that cool, but actually is cool is he hung out with a few folks that are worth like 10 or $20 billion recently. And he like talked about what it's like hanging out with people in that sphere.
We talked about MetaLab, which was his agency that he started, which provided all the profits in order to start Tiny and how it makes something like $20 million a year in profit. And we just said, how the hell does it make so much money and what did you guys do? So he gives us a breakdown on that.
We also asked him which agency he would start now. We asked him all about his new Twitter experience. So why would somebody who is worth all this money run a Twitter experiment that makes 10 or 20 grand a month in sales and he gave us the low down on how much money his, that little experiment's making. And then we asked him about when you take dividends from a company, like what do you actually do with the dividends and where do you invest them or how much do you pay yourself? And he got really transparent about that. And so it was really interesting. So check it out. This is Andrew Wilkinson, it's Shaan and me, Sam. So if you guys like it, subscribe on YouTube, subscribe on your Spotify, subscribe on wherever podcasts are and let us know if you liked it. See you soon.
I was before you got on, I was making fun of Andrew. He looks like Kevin McCallister's mom in Home Alone.
He looks like he's just taking up rollerblading in the 90s.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (2:24)
You're saying I look like Catherine O'Hara.

**Sam Parr** (2:27)
Look at her character in Home Alone. She had a massive wave.
It was cool.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (2:32)
Okay, let me put you back.

**Sam Parr** (2:34)
No, I think it's cool. Embrace it, dude. You look like a bully in a movie.
I think you look good. I think it's cool.

**Shaan Puri** (2:40)
It's okay, man. She was hot.

**Sam Parr** (2:42)
She was hot.
It's a compliment, I think. Well, welcome back.

**Shaan Puri** (2:50)
There's no podcast on earth where you will just be welcomed with open insults like My First Million.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (2:57)
Yeah, this is great. You guys want to roast me for another 10 minutes?
Yeah, I was supposed to come on what like three weeks ago and then I got strep throat and dude, I haven't been that sick in years. I was like on death's door for a year. I ended up taking like three different antibiotics. So I'm glad to be alive.

**Sam Parr** (3:16)
And you're on a health kick now. You've been lifting weights.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (3:18)
Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing a muscle gain competition with a bunch of friends. So that's been really fun.

**Sam Parr** (3:23)
Sean says he's, Sean has like I think 40 days left to have abs. How many days do you have left?

**Shaan Puri** (3:28)
I'm just, I say I'm perpetually eight weeks away from having exactly the body I want. The problem is it's a, this clock restarts every time I door dash, you know, dominoes or Taco Bell or something like that.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (3:39)
So have you tried just doing a Zempik? Cause like I have so many friends that are taking that and it's just like they're suddenly ripped.

**Shaan Puri** (3:46)
Yeah. There's, it just doesn't have, it doesn't do it for me in this.

**Sam Parr** (3:49)
Sean's very anti like, are you, would you, are you, are you a vaccine? Are you an anti-vaccine guy too?

**Shaan Puri** (3:55)
But I do think that the COVID vaccine was not a vaccine because I was like, wait a minute. So you still get it? You still spread it?