Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire
by Andrew Wilkinson
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Andrew Wilkinson is an entrepreneur and investor from Victoria, British Columbia. As co-founder of Tiny Capital, a long-term holding company with brands like AeroPress, Dribbble, MetaLab and Letterboxd, he built a business valued at over a billion dollars by age 36, starting from a $6.50-per-hour barista job.
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