Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, and podcaster known for his work in lifestyle optimization, business, and self-improvement. After the overwhelming success of his debut book, ‘The 4-Hour Workweek,’ which became a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller in 2007, Tim Ferriss established himself as a prominent figure in lifestyle optimization, business, and self-improvement. Ferriss initially founded BrainQUICKEN in 2001, an internet-based nutritional supplements company. His entrepreneurial insights from this venture, which he later sold in 2010 to a private equity firm in London, informed the foundational principles of his influential literary career.

He founded the Saisei Foundation in 2018 and has contributed and fundraised for centers at leading institutions, including Imperial College London’s Center for Psychedelic Research (2019) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research (2019). His support extended to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies for PTSD research (2020) and the Neuroscape Psychedelics Division at UCSF (2021). Furthering this commitment, he funded the Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship and co-funded POPLAR at Harvard Law School, both in 2021. Looking ahead, Ferriss is set to release the card game ‘Coyote’ in partnership with Exploding Kittens in 2025.