Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferris is an author, podcast host, TV show host, entrepreneur, investor, and public speaker. As an early-stage technology investor/advisor, Ferris has worked with Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and more. He has invested in Reputation.com, TaskRabbit, Trippy, DailyBurn, Shopify, Evernote, and Posterous. Tim Ferris is the host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads; currently the show has over 700 million downloads. Tim Ferris also has two TV Shows: The Tim Ferris Experiment, since 2013, and Fear(less), since 2017.

Ferris is a public speaker speaking on the topics of investment, entrepreneurship and lifestyle. Ferris has been been a speaker at a number organizations, including Google, MIT, Harvard Business School, Nike, Facebook, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Microsoft, and Palantir. He has also been a contributor/speaker at TED, The EG, E-Tech, SXSW, LeWeb, and the Web 2.0 Exposition.

Ferris is the author of five books:

• The 4-Hour Workweek (published 2007)
• The 4-Hour Body (published 2010)
• The 4-hour Chef (published 2012)
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires (published 2016)
• Tribe of Mentors (2017)

Ferris was born in East Hampton New York on July 20, 1977. He attended St. Paul's School a prep school in New Hampshire prior to his studies at Princeton. Tim Ferris studied at Princeton University focusing on East Asian Studies; he earned his BA in 2000. After college, Ferriss worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for a digital-storage business named TrueSAN. From 2003-2013 Tim Ferris was a guest lecturer at Princeton, lecturing on High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering. Tim Ferris is also the Founder of BrainQuicken, a nutritional supplement company, which he began in 2001 and sold in 2010.