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Tim Ferriss

Author at Crown/Harmony

Austin, Texas

Overview 

Tim Ferriss is an accomplished author with 5 #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers and the host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast with over 1 billion downloads. He is also an early-stage investor with a notable portfolio including companies like OpenSea and Hu Kitchen. Ferriss has a background in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and has worked with reputable companies like Amazon Publishing and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as an author. His investments in companies like Athletic Greens and SkyKick demonstrate his success as an angel investor in the social commerce and consumer health sectors.

Work Experience 

Angel Investor

  • Principal

    2007 - Current

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

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

  • Author

    2007

BrainQUICKEN LLC

  • Senior Director

    2001 - 2009

    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.

TrueSAN Networks

  • Account Manager

    2000 - 2001

Education 

Investments 

Fractal

Seed

Total funding: $35M

Mentava

Seed

Total funding: $3M

Athletic Greens

Angel

Total funding: $120M

OpenSea

Series A

Total funding: $430M

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