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Andrew
Entrepreneur &Â Neuroscientist
‍Forbes 30 Under 30
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About me
Some interesting (random)Â things I've done. Click 'em to read more...
Started my first company at 16
I dropped out of school to start my first company. We washed cars, sold personalised USBs...and eventually manufactured a new product from scratch: The Cable Stable. We won every award at the Young Enterprise finals but the company finally shut down, leaving me just 4 weeks to self-study my A Levels!
Somehow, watching YouTube videos & torrenting past papers, I managed to score 98.2% (highest in the year), winning the Harvard Prize, offers from Cambridge & LSE, and got very inspired for my next startup!
Somehow, watching YouTube videos & torrenting past papers, I managed to score 98.2% (highest in the year), winning the Harvard Prize, offers from Cambridge & LSE, and got very inspired for my next startup!
Cofounded a ÂŁ10m+ startup
Final year at uni, I cofounded an online learning platform for A Level students, so others could self-study the way I did! Three years and many 90-hour work weeks later, the company was valued at over ÂŁ10m and we had thousands of users and a potentially game-changing product.
Despite years of blood, sweat & tears building the company up, I ultimately quit as IÂ didn't feel the company was making an impact. IÂ left to pursue more meaningful ventures, but I learnt so much about how (and how not to!) run a company.
Despite years of blood, sweat & tears building the company up, I ultimately quit as IÂ didn't feel the company was making an impact. IÂ left to pursue more meaningful ventures, but I learnt so much about how (and how not to!) run a company.
Cooked dinner for Boris Johnson
As President of the Entrepreneurs society, I was responsible for the UK’s largest student entrepreneurship conference. After a rocky road sorting logistics and speakers, we discovered the marketing team had forgotten to sell any tickets…
400 tickets unsold and two weeks till the conference, I took drastic measures: after Googling BoJo’s favourite meal, I cooked it up for him, wrapped it in a conference poster with a hand-written message on the back, and delivered it to his house in a picnic basket. He loved the gift and agreed to tweet out the conference! It was taken down the next day (lol) but we sold all 400 tickets!
400 tickets unsold and two weeks till the conference, I took drastic measures: after Googling BoJo’s favourite meal, I cooked it up for him, wrapped it in a conference poster with a hand-written message on the back, and delivered it to his house in a picnic basket. He loved the gift and agreed to tweet out the conference! It was taken down the next day (lol) but we sold all 400 tickets!
Lost 30 kg
in 6 months
After struggling with my health all my life, I decided to commit to “massive action” to get fit & healthy. I hired Pearce, an incredible personal trainer who trained me every morning and cooked all my food for me for ~3 months.Â
After the first quarter, I fell in love with eating well and lifting heavy. The next 3 months I transitioned to looking after my own diet and training myself. In total, I lost 30kg, gained 6kg of muscle, picked up a cheeky six pack (that didn’t last long!) and I could do clap pushups, chin-ups, L-sits, etc.Â
I’ve since spoken at Google on health optimisation, gotten into the magic art of acroyoga and soon I’ll be opening my own biohacker gym!
After the first quarter, I fell in love with eating well and lifting heavy. The next 3 months I transitioned to looking after my own diet and training myself. In total, I lost 30kg, gained 6kg of muscle, picked up a cheeky six pack (that didn’t last long!) and I could do clap pushups, chin-ups, L-sits, etc.Â
I’ve since spoken at Google on health optimisation, gotten into the magic art of acroyoga and soon I’ll be opening my own biohacker gym!
Travelled the world & learned languages
Lost and confused, I spent ~3 years travelling the world - camped out in the Sahara Desert, drank ayahuasca in the Amazon, learned fluent español, gave a TEDx talk en français, tore every ligament in both my knees in a kitesurfing-jellyfish crash in Panama..!
It was all a tremendous learning experience. Different cultures, different perspectives, so many lovely people, fantastic food and my first taste of the full flavour of life.
It was all a tremendous learning experience. Different cultures, different perspectives, so many lovely people, fantastic food and my first taste of the full flavour of life.
Went totally and utterly insane...
Has the world gone crazy? Or are we all just mad? Â
As I got older, I found it increasingly impossible to just sit back and watch. So much suffering, so much injustice…while the privileged just scoot along, wrapped up in their own self-inflicted problems ("all the best tennis coaches are fully booked! Oh no!").
I couldn’t stand it anymore and decided I would make all the changes I wanted to see in the world (or at least try bloody hard!) So now that’s my life: I research neuroscience to cure trauma & psychopathy; donate to high-impact charities to solve neglected tropical diseases; and train scientists to fix all our other crises! If you’d like to help, feel free to get in touch.
As I got older, I found it increasingly impossible to just sit back and watch. So much suffering, so much injustice…while the privileged just scoot along, wrapped up in their own self-inflicted problems ("all the best tennis coaches are fully booked! Oh no!").
I couldn’t stand it anymore and decided I would make all the changes I wanted to see in the world (or at least try bloody hard!) So now that’s my life: I research neuroscience to cure trauma & psychopathy; donate to high-impact charities to solve neglected tropical diseases; and train scientists to fix all our other crises! If you’d like to help, feel free to get in touch.
What people say
With a target in mind, Andrew will inspire you with 100% certainty that if you follow his plan, you’ll achieve. He will challenge the limits you set for yourself, but with real experience and data. Trust me, don’t look any further. — T Gordon, Coaching Client
Extremely proactive in helping us from start to finish, from survey creation, designing tools and content based on personalised data to finally presenting... I would highly recommend! — Elizabeth Ho, Google
This is one of the best articles on career advice I've ever read and a must-read for anyone in their twenties! — Cyrus Yari, Reader, Co-Founder at Rational VC
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