25 Facts About Tim Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss was born on July 20,1977 and is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru.

Tim Ferriss was a member of the wrestling team in high school.

In 2001, Tim Ferriss founded BrainQUICKEN, an internet-based nutritional supplements business, while still employed at his prior job.

Tim Ferriss sold the company, then known as BodyQUICK, to a London-based private equity firm in 2010.

Tim Ferriss has stated that The 4-Hour Workweek was based on this period.

In 2013, Tim Ferriss raised $250,000 to invest in Shyp by forming a syndicate on AngelList.

Tim Ferriss raised over $500,000 through his backers, and Shyp raised a total of $2.1 million.

Tim Ferriss was an advisor to Shopify, helping them to launch the "Build a Business" competition that fostered web-store startups in 2010 with a $100,000 prize.

Also, in 2015, Tim Ferriss declared a long vacation from new investing.

Tim Ferriss 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.

Tim Ferriss has written five books, The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans, and Tribe of Mentors.

In December 2013, The Tim Ferriss Experiment debuted on HLN.

The series focused on Tim Ferriss' life hacking and speed learning methods.

Tim Ferriss distributed them on iTunes, where they were featured in the most-downloaded chart.

Tim Ferriss has publicly advocated the value of Stoicism and meditation, crediting it with helping him deal with his bipolar disorder, and states that his personal experience with psychiatric disorders and losing a friend to fentanyl drug overdose motivates his involvement in psychedelics research.

In 2017, Tim Ferriss gave the TED talk "Why you should define your fears instead of your goals".

Tim Ferriss calls the last one, "My favorite writing of all time".

Ferriss is the host of The Tim Ferriss Show, an interview-centered podcast that has been running since 2014.

Tim Ferriss became interested in the potential of psychedelics due to personal experiences with depression, as well as bipolar disorder, depression, and addiction in his family.

In 2015, Tim Ferriss met Roland Griffiths, who was leading research in psychedelics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and organized a crowdfunding campaign to support Griffiths' research into depression.

In 2019, Tim Ferriss contributed to Imperial College London's Center for Psychedelic Research.

In 2020, Tim Ferriss donated $1 million to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies for research into PTSD treatments using psychedelic-drug MDMA.

Tim Ferriss issued a $10 million challenge grant, and helped to raise a total of $30 million for the research by publicizing the challenge on his podcast.

Tim Ferriss was a member of the National Advisory Council of DonorsChoose and, as of 2016, was a donor and a member of the advisory board of QuestBridge.

Tim Ferriss won a National Chinese Kickboxing Championship by technical knock-out, and is the first American to hold a Guinness World Record for tango spins.