I Ranked the Best & WORST Businesses to Start Before 2026 | Andrew Wilkinson

We have sixty five million of ARR. We do over forty million dollars of Ibita. We also manage a two hundred million dollar fund. So we're over three hundred million in revenue across thirty businesses and all the businesses in the fund are profitable as well. I don't know, I'm kinda like if that's failing, like sign me up, right? You've owned a number of agencies. How much revenue lifetime has Meta Lab generated for you? The hundreds of millions of dollars of profits, not revenue. I don't know that I would still rank it very highly though. SAS Where are you putting SaaS? I would say it's a What do you think about marketplaces? Well, I would say it comes down to scale. A good marketplace like Airbnb, I'd say an A. I'd rank marketplaces in general as That's the one I would disagree with you with. I feel like I gotta ask you this because I think you get a lot of shit nowadays. I think a lot of people go look at the tiny stock and then they click like Max. And basically you see just a downward trend. A lot of people I see on Twitter want to kind of look at that and say, Oh, this guy calls himself the Warren Buffett of the internet and he says he buys these great bits. businesses.

Um I feel like I could rule the world, I know I could be what I want to I put my law in it like my day's all on the road, let's try to get it. Andrew is uh One of the Most visited guests on the pod. Always good to have you, man. Uh I wanted to play a game with you. You've done many types of businesses you've done.

Agencies and Yeah, private equity and you've started, you know, e-commerce companies. You've done a a huge number of companies in the last twenty years. So I want to do a game where we rank The different types of businesses that you could start. And w we could work out this criteria together, but I I think the idea should be

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