Tim Ferriss

The Tim Ferriss Show covers topics ranging from personal and character development, to morning routines and meditation habits of celebrities, CEOs and sportspeople like LeBron James,[14] also covering occasional posts about writing, venture capital, metaphysics and even acting/movies.[15]

Ferriss is an angel investor and advisor to startups.[16]

He has invested or advised in startups such as StumbleUpon, Posterous, Evernote, DailyBurn, Shopify, Reputation.com, Trippy, and TaskRabbit.[17] He is a pre-seed money advisor to Uber, co-founded by Garrett Camp, the founder of StumbleUpon, which Ferriss also advises.[18][19]

In 2013, Ferriss raised $250,000 in under an hour to invest in Shyp by forming a syndicate on AngelList.[20] Ferriss ended up raising over $500,000 through his backers, and Shyp raised a total of $2.1 million. In 2018, Shyp shut down[21][22][23] and laid off all its employees.[24]

The New York Times listed Ferriss among their "Notable angel Investors" while CNN said he was "one of the planet's leading angel investors in technology."[25][26]

In November 2013, Ferriss began an audiobook publishing venture, Tim Ferriss Publishing.[27] The first book published was Vagabonding by Rolf Potts.[27] Other books include Ego is the Enemy and The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday, Daily Rituals by Mason Currey, and What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan.[28]

In 2015, Ferriss declared a long vacation from new investing. He cited the stress of the work and a feeling his impact was "minimal in the long run", and said he planned to spend time on his writing and media projects.[29] In 2017 he stated one of the reasons he moved from Silicon Valley was that, "After effectively 'retiring' from angel investing 2 years ago," he had no professional need to be in the Bay Area.[30]

A picture showing cover of one of the most notable works of Ferriss.

Ferriss has written five books, The 4-Hour Workweek (2007, expanded edition 2009), The 4-Hour Body (2010), The 4-Hour Chef (2012), Tools of Titans (2016), and Tribe of Mentors (2017).

In December 2008, Ferriss led a pilot on the History Channel called Trial by Fire, in which he had one week to attempt to learn a skill normally learned over the course of many years. In the pilot episode he practiced yabusame, the Japanese art of horseback archery.[31]

In December 2013, his television series The Tim Ferriss Experiment debuted on HLN. In each episode Ferriss attempts to become proficient at a particular skill in a short amount of time using his personal methods with the help of experts within the field. Episodes featured skills including surfing, professional poker, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, parkour, and foreign language learning, among others.[32] Although 13 episodes were produced, only a portion were shown on television. Ferriss stated on his blog in March 2014 that he'd "been fighting hard behind the scenes" to gain the rights to distribute the show to fans digitally.[33] Over a year later, in April 2015 Ferriss announced that after "eons of negotiating and lawyering" he was finally able to retain digital rights to the show, and released the full series in its entirety on iTunes.[34][35]

Ferriss also hosted the 2017 TV show Fear{Less} with Tim Ferriss, in which he interviews people from different industries about success and innovation.[36]

Ferriss has raised funds for the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and for the Center for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. Since 2016, Ferriss donated at least $2,000,000 for clinical research into psychedelic drugs.[37][38]