Angel Investor

Advisor to Uber, Evernote, Shopify, Automattic (WordPress.com), etc. Early investor in Twitter, Facebook, and 20+ others. Longer list here: https://angel.co/tim

Principal

Crown/Harmony (Random House), Amazon Publishing,  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Author

BrainQUICKEN LLC

I founded this sports nutrition manufacturer and distributor (12+ countries at highest market saturation) in 2001 and sold it to a private equity firm in January of 2009.

Senior Director

TrueSAN Networks

Account Manager

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People.” He is an angel investor/advisor (Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Nextdoor, Alibaba, etc.) and author of five #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek. Find his current antics at www.tim.blog.

2007 - Present -
Host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, the first business-interview podcast to pass 100M downloads and selected for "Best of iTunes" three years running. Author of five #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans, and Tribe of Mentors. Latest experiments and writing at http://www.tim.blog

2003 - Present - 
Guest Lecturer at Princeton University, High-tech Entrepreneurship (Electrical Engineering)

2001 - Jan. 2009 -
Co-founder and Senior Director of BrainQUICKEN LLC, neurological and sports nutrition development firm with distribution in 15+ countries.  Sold to private equity firm.

Specialties: Business: Consumer product design and marketing, social entrepreneurship and metrics (conversation, cost-per-acquisition, etc.), multivariate testing, infrastructure and manufacturing.



Tim Ferriss

Based on everything I’ve seen, a simple recipe can work: focus on what’s in front of you, design great days to create a great life, and try not to make the same mistake twice. That’s it. If you really want extra credit, try not to be a dick, and you’ll be a Voltron-level superstar. 

The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard. 

Feeling as though you are trying too hard indicates that your priorities, technique, focus, or mindfulness is off. Take it as a cue to reset, not to double down. And take comfort in the fact that, whenever in doubt, the answer is probably hidden in plain sight. 

What would this look like if it were easy? 

In a world where nobody really knows anything, you have the incredible freedom to continually reinvent yourself and forge new paths, no matter how strange. 

Embrace your weird self. 

There is no one right answer . . . only better questions.

Author of 5 #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, Creator of COYOTE card game with 300M+ viral video views (coyotegame.com), Tim Ferriss Show podcast with 1B+ downloads

“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.”
​— William James ​

“‘What is the secret of your serenity?’
Said the Master, ‘Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.’”​
— Anthony de Mello​

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