Hi đź‘‹ I'm
Andrew

Author of Why Are You Working So Much?
Co-Founder at ReHumanity / CEO at Afinity

Featured in / Spoken at

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!

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 I didn't feel the company was making an impact. I 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!

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. 

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. 

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.

Went totally and utterly insane...

Has the world gone crazy? Or are we all just mad?  

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. 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!) 

And now that’s my life: I donate all my income over £30k to high-impact charities and work on ideas / projects / charities / startups / books to solve, at the root cause, all the messed up stuff in this universe - from neglected tropical diseases, to mental health, artificial intelligence and psychopathy. If you’d like to help me, you can see everything I’m working on here.

Being Human :)

New ways to think & live from the most interesting humans in history!
Sign up and every Thursday you'll receive a beautiful email exploring:

One new
way to live

From the most interesting societies & humans in history!

One
breakthrough

Thought experiments & deep questions to flip the way you see the world.

An extremely interesting fact

Like how squirrels use their tails as umbrellas.
10,000+ people have now read my articles. Don't miss out!
Read it first →
“
”
Your writing flips the way I think on its head. I’m so grateful you share you what you learn!
Cyrus Yari, CEO of Rational Investor

Work with me

Founder Training

Consciousness training to help entrepreneurs/creatives escape the “high-low” cycle of creative mania followed by destructive burnout. After 10 years and £50k+ on the world’s top psychologists, there is a way out...I promise!
Learn more

Rediscovery Course

Who are you really? How can you know? What's you and what's your parents', teachers', friends', society's influence? Rediscovering who I really was saved me from suicide. Now I want to help others find their realest selves, too.
Explore courses

Projects

So many new ideas! I have dozens of projects running in the background or in the pipeline. Always looking for feedback or help executing. And feel free to steal any good ones, I'll happily invest or at least advise!
Let's 'ave a look!

What people say

Follow me / Suivez-moi / Siguemé

Get in touch

For concisousness training, startup advisory or random (non-Googleable) questions,
hit me up below 👇
Your message has been sent via the miracle of the internet! I’ll get back to you as soon as I can, but please note: I do receive a heavy volume of inbound so can’t always revert as quickly as I would like to :)
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.