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Entrepreneurs who push their way through the grueling process of building companies can usually be divided into those who dream of bettering the world and those who dream of becoming billionaires. The latter invariably end up being disappointed—even, or especially, if they hit their financial goals.
Andrew Wilkinson is in that camp. He went from being a barista and college dropout to being a billionaire. He and Chris Sparling co-founded Tiny, a Canadian technology conglomerate modeled on Berkshire Hathaway. Tiny holds majority shares in numerous small companies, including AeroPress, a cult coffee-equipment manufacturer; Letterboxd, a popular social-media/microblogging hybrid focused on movies; and many online design and development companies.
In "Never Enough," Mr. Wilkinson unabashedly admits to a "lifelong obsession with making money." But when he had the chance to go into business with Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger and take the step from superrich to super-superrich—yes, billionaires have their own wealth classes—he spent some time in serious reflection and turned Munger down. He was in the process of learning that while money might buy dopamine hits—"bigger planes . . . faster cars"—it's true that it can't buy happiness.