"Tim is Indiana Jones for the digital age. I've
already used his advice to go spearfishing on
remote islands and ski the best hidden slopes of
Argentina. Simply put, do what he says and you
can live like a millionaire."
— Albert Pope,
Derivatives Trading, UBS World Headquarters
Serial entrepreneur and ultravagabond Timothy
Ferriss has been featured by dozens of media, including
The New York
Times, National Geographic Traveler, NBC, and
MAXIM. He speaks six languages, runs a
multinational firm from wireless locations
worldwide, and has been a popular guest lecturer
at Princeton University since 2003, where he
presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal
lifestyle design and world change.
Tim has been profiled in
The Success Principles,
the New York Times bestseller written by Jack
Canfield, and is a main character in the
upcoming feature-length documentary "As Seen on
TV," produced by Emmy Award winner Dan Partland.
As a professional polymath, he has amassed a
diverse roster of credentials and experience:
- Princeton University guest lecturer in
High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical
Engineering
- Cage
fighter in Japan, vanquisher of four world
champions (MMA)
- First
American in history to hold a Guinness World
Record in tango (video)
- Advisor to more than 30 world record holders
in professional and Olympic sports
- National Chinese kickboxing champion (video)
-
Glycemic
Index (GI) researcher Political asylum
researcher and activist
-
MTV breakdancer in
Taiwan
-
Hurling competitor in Ireland
-
Actor on hit
TV series in mainland China and Hong Kong
Since his debut presentation on The 4-Hour Workweek at the world-famous SXSW Interactive conference on March 12, 2007, Tim has been invited to speak at some of the most innovative companies and universities in the world, ranging from Google and PayPal to Princeton University, the Wharton School, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including Supernova, FOO Camp, Community Next, and the Web 2.0 Exposition, where he shared the stage with figures like Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Google, and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.
Tim received his BA from Princeton University in
2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and
East Asian Studies departments. He developed his
nonfiction writing with Pulitzer Prize winner
John McPhee and formed his life philosophies
under Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.
He is 29 years old, and
The 4-Hour Workweek is his first book and
magnum opus.
"Tim
has packed more lives into his 29 years than
Steve Jobs has in his 51." — Tom Foremski,
Journalist and Publisher of
SiliconValleyWatcher.com
"Thanks to Tim Ferriss, I have more time in my
life to travel, spend time with family and write
book blurbs. This is a dazzling and highly
useful
work." — A.J. Jacobs
Editor-at-Large, Esquire Magazine
Author of
The
Know-It-All