The Dock with Omar Waseem

EP 21 John Andrew Entwistle: How I built TWO $100M Companies (and beat Airbnb)

Jun 13, 2023

49:47

Omar ⁠⁠⁠(⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@omarwasm)⁠⁠⁠ and Vishal ⁠⁠⁠(@vishalkolr)⁠⁠⁠ sit down with John Andrew Entwistle ⁠(⁠⁠⁠⁠@jaentwistle)⁠, founder of Wander.com, to talk about building his first company Coder at 16, raising $130M for Wander, pivoting from an enterprise developer platform to real estate, how he got his nickname "The Shovel", and racing F4 cars.

The Dock is a Founders, Inc. show. Learn more about Founders, Inc. at:

⁠⁠⁠https://f.inc⁠⁠⁠

Links:

· John Andrew's Twitter

· Wander

· ⁠⁠⁠The Dock⁠⁠⁠

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:15 - What Is Wander?

7:02 - Building Coder.com At 16

14:34 - The Early Days of Wander

23:30 - What Made Wander Work