In June 2024, I received this email from Andrew Wilkinson.
“Every year, I invite 100 of the most interesting people in the world to spend two days in my hometown of Victoria, Canada. It’s not a conference. I hate conferences. Conferences are usually about small talk and bragging at the bar. Listening to talks instead of talking. They favor the bold extroverts. The loudest person wins, and no attempt is made to facilitate conversation and friendship amongst the group. This event is different. It’s called Interesting People, and it’s happening on July 25 and 26th at The Fairmont Empress.”
Andrew is an entrepreneur, investor and billionaire**
I added the ** by billionaire because I think he might be a Canadian billionaire and thus only worth a mere $700M USD.
Somehow I snuck an invite even though I’m clearly NOT a billionaire.
But to be honest… the morning of my flight – I almost didn’t go.
I was tired, just got back from a ton of travel, and honestly just wanted to chill at home for a week. I almost ate the cost of the flight and travel and stayed home instead.
But the morning of, I said F It, lets go. And I’m glad I did.
Here’s how it went.
