Timothy Ferriss

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Timothy Ferriss (2009)

Timothy "Tim" Ferriss (born July 20, 1977 in East Hampton , New York ) is an American author and entrepreneur. His books The Four Hour Week and The Four Hour Body made the New York Times bestseller list.

Life

Timothy Ferriss grew up in East Hampton and graduated from St. Paul's School . In 2000 he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in East Asian Studies. After graduation, Ferriss worked in sales for a data storage company. Ferriss said he was dissatisfied with the inefficiencies and his salary, so began spending his time building his own internet business.

In 2001, Ferriss founded BrainQUICKEN, an internet nutritional supplement company. This manufactured a product that was marketed as both BodyQuick and Brain Quicken. The ingredients were u. a .: "Cobalamin, Niacinamide, Folic Acid, 2-dimethylaminoethanol, Pyridoxine HCL, Pantothenic Acid (Calcium Pantothenate), Proprietary Cognamine Complex (including components of: Phosphatidylserine, Choline Bitartrate, Vinpocetine, Salix Alba, Thioctic Acid, L-Tyrosine, Ciwujia). ”It was claimed that this product could dramatically increase short-term memory and responsiveness, with effects within 60 minutes. In 2010 he sold the company to a venture capital investment company based in London.

Ferriss is known for applying both the Pareto principle and Parkinson's laws to business. On his blog and later in his subsequent books, Ferriss applied this approach to other areas outside of the business world. His book on fitness z. B. claims to offer the exercise and diet tips that will get the most results with the least amount of effort or time. Ferriss uses the "minimal effective dose" analogy to describe this technique. He also believes that technologies such as email , instant messaging, and Internet-enabled PDAs make life more complicated than easier.

In his book The 4-Hour Workweek (2007), Ferriss warned of information overload and recommends what he calls “selective ignorance” and coined expressions such as “lifestyle design”. Ferriss marketed the book through bloggers he was friends with. Before the book came out, Ferriss was a stranger. The book eventually reached # 1 on both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. The book also spawned a blog of the same name operated by Ferriss. Ferriss' second book, The 4-Hour Body (2010) reached # 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Among other things, Ferriss claimed in the self-help book that he gained 34 pounds of muscle mass in four weeks. The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life was first published in 2012. Tools of Titans was released in 2016 . The book is based on his podcast and brings together interview passages with guests from business, technology, sports, politics, the military, medicine, journalism, art and culture - it aims to convey tactics and routines from world-class performers in their respective fields.

Ferriss is a business angel and consultant for startups. He has advised or invested in startups like StumbleUpon , Posterous , Evernote , DailyBurn , Shopify , Reputation Defender, Trippy , Foodzie, Badongo, TaskRabbit , RescueTime and SimpleGeo, in addition to small blocks of shares on Facebook and Twitter . In 2016, Ferriss donated $ 100,000 to research into psychedelics for treating depression. In 2019, he donated more than $ 2 million to the new Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University Medical School .

honors and awards

The Aspen Institute named Ferriss a Henry Crown Member in March 2009 . In 2012, he was listed as the seventh most influential online personality on Newsweek 's Digital Power Index 100. In 2008 he won the Wired Magazine's "Greatest Self-Promoter of All Time" award and was named one of the "Most Innovative Business People of 2007" by Fast Company .

Trivia

Ferriss holds the world record for the most consecutive tango spins in one minute. Ferriss and his dance partner Alicia Monti set the record on the show Live with Regis and Kelly .

Ferriss claimed that prior to his writing career, he won the 1999 USAWKF San Shou National Championship in the 165-pound weight class by pushing his opponents out of the ring and by being dramatically dehydrated before the weigh-in and before the fight then rehydrated to compete several weight classes below his actual weight.

In December 2008, Ferriss was on a show on the History Channel where he had a week to try and learn a skill that would normally take years. In the pilot, he practiced yabusame , a Japanese form of archery that is practiced from the horse.

Web links

Commons : Timothy Ferriss  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elaine Grant: 4 Questions for Productivity Guru Tim Ferriss , US News and World Report. March 25, 2008. Archived from the original on April 1, 2008 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 4, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usnews.com 
  2. ^ New York Times Bestseller List Feb. 2008
  3. ↑ # 5: 4 Hour Work Week as of March 30, 2008.
  4. ^ David Streitfeld: Amazon Set to Publish Tim Ferriss . In: The New York Times , August 16, 2011. 
  5. ↑ Timothy Ferriss '00 . Princeton Alumni Weekly.
  6. ↑ Cornelia Hall: Ferriss '00 takes the day off . In: The Daily Princetonian , May 9, 2007. 
  7. ↑ a b Stephanie Rosenbloom: The World According to Tim Ferriss . In: The New York Times , March 25, 2011. 
  8. ↑ http://brainresearchsupplements.com/brainquicken-by-body-quick-llc/
  9. ↑ http://s3.amazonaws.com/quarkbase_test.com/brainquicken.com-snapshot.jpg
  10. ↑ Brent Bowers: In the Hunt; The Hectic Chronicles . In: New York Times , June 13, 2007. 
  11. ↑ Tim Ferriss: How I Work , CNN Money. September 6, 2007. Retrieved April 5, 2008. 
  12. ↑ Tim Ferriss Wants You to Get a Life . ABC News . October 11, 2007.
  13. ↑ John Warrillow: Timothy Ferriss and the '4-Hour' exit . In: The Globe and Mail , October 6, 2010. 
  14. ↑ John Warrillow: Why Tim Ferriss Sold His Muse . In: Inc. Magazine , November 11, 2010. 
  15. ^ Marco R. della Cava: Services cater to our speeded-up lives , USA Today. January 28, 2008. Retrieved April 4, 2008. 
  16. ↑ a b c Tim Ferriss: 4-Hour Body - The Principle of the Minimum Effective Dose . In: Gizmodo , December 13, 2010. 
  17. ↑ Tim Ferriss: I receive 500 to 1,000 emails per day , The Economist. March 4, 2008. Retrieved April 4, 2008. 
  18. ↑ Alex Williams: Meet the Press , The New York Times. November 11, 2007. Retrieved April 4, 2008.  "Most fundamentally, Mr. Ferriss turned ruthless against e-mail."
  19. ↑ Timothy Ferriss: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich Crown (2007)
  20. ^ A b Robert Scoble: Meet the Press , Fast Company. March 2008. Archived from the original on March 22, 2008 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 21, 2008. “A year ago, Timothy Ferriss was a relative unknown. If the serial entrepreneur was known at all, it was likely for being the only Princeton University guest lecturer ... " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fastcompany.com 
  21. ↑ Alex Williams: Meet the Press , The New York Times. November 11, 2007. Retrieved April 4, 2008.  "... Ferriss has seen his book quickly become a best seller, largely on the strength of blog chatter in the tech community".
  22. ↑ Steve Rubel: The 4-Hour Workweek - Behind the Meme . MicroPersuasion.com. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
  23. ^ Ihsan Taylor: Hardcover . In: The New York Times . 
  24. ↑ http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to-freak-how-i-gained-34-lbs-of-muscle-in-4-weeks/
  25. ^ Matt Hartley: Ottawa's Shopify launches $ 500,000 Build-A-Business promotion . National Post. April 26, 2011. "This year, participants will receive advice on building their fledgling businesses from some of the most well-regarded names from the startup and technology worlds - including prominent angel investor Tim Ferriss."
  26. ^ Kashmir Hill: Taking My Measure . Forbes. April 6, 2011.
  27. ↑ Tim "The 4-Hour Workweek" Ferriss On Angel Investing (video). TechCrunch. "Some of the companies he's invested in and / or acts as an advisor for are Digg, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Posterous, SimpleGeo and DailyBurn."
  28. ↑ Steven Bertoni: Tim Ferriss On Facebook, Twitter And Building A Huge Web Brand . Forbes. April 14, 2011. “Q: You were an early investor in Twitter, what did you see in the company? A: I'm involved with the tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter. I knew a number of the guys and a number of the investors. I decided to invest when I saw Twitter ... "
  29. ↑ Robin Wauters: Tim Ferriss Joins Startup Evernote As Strategic Advisor . TechCrunch. May 18, 2010.
  30. ^ Gwen Moran: Big Investors Are Helping Trippy Go the Distance . MSNBC. June 9, 2012. “First, he approached Tim Ferriss, author of the bestselling book The 4-Hour Workweek, to be an advisor. Ferriss wanted in - and also wanted to be part of the seed investing team ... "
  31. ↑ Leah Busque: The Best $ 750 I Ever Spent Bootstrapping My Startup: One Plane Ticket West . The Huffington Post. January 18, 2012.
  32. ↑ Leena Rao: Kevin Rose Invests In Facebook On SecondMarket . TechCrunch. January 29, 2011.
  33. ↑ Jason Kingcaid: Feel the Daily Burn . TechCrunch . May 26, 2009.
  34. ↑ Shana Lebowitz: '4-hour Workweek' author Tim Ferriss plans to donate $ 100,000 toward studying how to treat depression with psychedelics like magic mushrooms. January 14, 2016, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  35. ^ Benedict Carey: Tim Ferriss, the Man Who Put His Money Behind Psychedelic Medicine. In: The New York Times. September 6, 2019, accessed September 9, 2019 .
  36. ^ The Aspen Institute: Aspen Institute Names 2009 Henry Crown Fellows , March 30, 2009.
  37. ^ Digital Power Index: Personalities ( Memento from June 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . Newsweek.
  38. ↑ Dylan Tweney: Tim Ferriss Takes Wired.com's Self-Promotion Prize , Wired. March 31, 2008. Retrieved April 4, 2008. 
  39. ↑ Kevin Hannessian: Fast Company's Most Innovative Business People of 2007 , Fast Company. February 15, 2008. Archived from the original on April 29, 2008 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 22, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fastcompany.com 
  40. ↑ PAW: Alumni Spotlight . "... Ferris and Monti executed a jaw-dropping 37 tango spins in a minute. They shattered their own record of 27, set in June 2005 during the tango world championship in Buenos Aires ".
  41. ↑ Tim Ferriss. (2006). Tango World Record  [ http://youtube.com/watch?v=H9pWKB2D23k ]. Live with Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa.
  42. ^ A b The 7 Commandments of Blogosphere (and Life) Self-Defense , Ferriss' blog, August 2007
  43. ↑ Dylan Tweney: Tim Ferriss' Four Hour Workweek . Wired. March 26, 2007.
  44. ↑ Sophie Brickman: Tim Ferriss has strong likes: knives, kettlebells . San Francisco Chronicle. January 15, 2012.
  45. ↑ Marketing Ideas # 17 Tim Ferriss Trial by Fire on the History Channel ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.joshwhitford.com archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Unconventional Marketing. December 3, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Ferriss, Timothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferriss, Tim (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 20th July 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH East Hampton , New York