The Necessary Entrepreneur welcomes Andrew Amann, the CEO and co-founder of NineTwoThree Venture Studio, a two-time Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company in the United States, and the leading mobile app development agency in Boston as ranked by Clutch.co. Since co-founding NineTwoThree Venture Studio in 2012, Andrew has helped launch 50 apps for funded startups and tech brands and launched 14 startups internally-funded startups. He is an experienced intrapreneur and entrepreneur. He is responsible for three patents for supply chain processes while he worked as a nuclear submarine engineer. He has successfully launched fourteen startups, including the digital business card solution, Inigo App, acquired by Royaltie, which is now the fourth fastest growing company in Canada. He excels at bootstrapping startups without the involvement of venture capital and tweets about how to build and maintain profitable companies.

Mark and Andrew talk about being driven by loneliness, learning from failures while getting experience, bootstrapping vs being venture capitalist funded, daily responsibilities, what drives and motivates people, and Mark's favorite topic of work life balance. They also discuss AI and that not everything needs to be automated, and that AI still needs human interaction. 

Find out more about Andrew Amann: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewamann/ https://twitter.com/andrewamann

Find out more about NineTwoThree Venture Studio: https://www.ninetwothree.co/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ninetwothree/

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