A Road Less Traveled: Wander Founder & CEO John Andrew Entwistle’s Path from 13 Year Old Entrepreneur to Helping People Find Their “Happy Place”

John Andrew Entwistle is on a mission to help people find their happy place. 

And for the Wander Founder & CEO, it's a mission that feels personal. 

John Andrew started his first company at just 13 years old, and launched his second, Coder, right out of high school. Over the next 5 years, he became a Thiel Fellow and was named alongside his Coder co-founders to Forbes 30 Under 30. When he stepped down to Coder’s board in 2021, he took some time away to ask himself, what’s next?

That question — and that trip, where he stayed in a sub-par short-term rental — sparked the idea for Wander. 

Now, less than a decade after graduating from high school, John Andrew says he’s building the company he wants to work on until he’s old and gray. 

For this conversation, we're in John Andrew's home in Austin, TX, talking about the road less taken, how he’s guided by a set of rules he wrote down as a kid, and what shapes his idea of a meaningful life. Make Yourself at Home with John Andrew Entwistle. 

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Guests on Make Yourself at Home include Bess Freedman (Brown Harris Stevens), Frédéric Fekkai (FEKKAI), Danielle Canty (Bossbabe), Adrian Grenier (Earth Speed Media, DuContra Ventures), Nyakio Grieco (Thirteen Lune), Noora Raj Brown (goop), Dr. Wendy Borlabi (Chicago Bulls), Ruth Zukerman (SoulCycle, Flywheel Sports), Katelin Holloway (Seven Seven Six), Al Doan (Missouri Quilt Co), Sasha Cohen (Olympic Medalist), Ally Love (Peloton), Nicole Ryan (SiriusXM) and more.

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Make Yourself at Home is hosted by Kristin Twiford and presented by Nines, the household management app designed to help you manage your home and everything that comes with it, so you can live with ease. Learn more at ninesliving.com.