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class="wsite-header"></div> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="wsite-content" class="wsite-elements wsite-not-footer"> <h2 style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tim Ferriss</span> - Biographical Sketch, Current Projects<br /></h2> <span style="float:left;z-index:10;"><a><img src="/uploads/2/2/5/5/2255191/4791927.jpg?104x156" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border: 1px solid black; z-index: 10;" /></a></span> <p style="text-align:left;display:block;"><strong><font color="#da4444">PLEASE NOTE -- THIS SITE HASN'T BEEN UPDATED IN YEARS!<br /><br />PLEASE FIND <a href="http://fourhourworkweek.com/blog/" target="_blank">TIM'S NEW WEBSITE HERE</a>. HIS NEWEST BOOK, <a href="http://toolsoftitans.com/" target="_blank">TOOLS OF TITANS</a>, CAN BE FOUND <a href="http://toolsoftitans.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</font></strong><br /><br />Tim Ferriss is a start-up angel investor (Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, etc.), <a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog" target="_blank">blogger</a>, and entrepreneur. His best-known written work is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/dp/0307353133/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203371924&sr=8-1" target="_blank">The 4-Hour Workweek</a>, which had been sold into 35 languages and reached #1 on <span>The New York Times</span>, <span>BusinessWeek</span>, and <span>The Wall Street Journal</span> bestseller lists.  On May 3, 2009, it celebrated its 2nd straight year on <span>The New York Times</span> business bestseller list since its publication on April 27, 2007.<br /><br />Tim is also a guest lecturer at Princeton University, where he has spoken on high-tech entrepreneurship since 2003 in the Electrical Engineering and ORFE departments.  Other education-related interests include social media-based fundraising experiments, such as <a href="http://litliberation.org/" target="_blank">LitLiberation</a>, which outraised television host Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 with no fixed costs.  Most recently, he used Twitter as a distributed tool for gathering data on post-campaign donations (see <a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/03/09/tweet-to-beat/" target="_blank">Tweet to Beat</a>). He is on the advisory board of <a href="http://www.donorschoose.org/" target="_blank">DonorsChoose.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/contact/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:bold">Contact Tim Ferriss</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/timferriss" target="_blank">Tim Ferriss on Facebook</a><br />Watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/timferriss" target="_blank">videos of Tim Ferriss</a> (sample from TED.com below)<br />See his latest and most popular posts on <a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog" target="_blank">The Experiments in Lifestyle Design blog</a><br />What's Tim doing right now? Find out <a href="http://www.twitter.com/tferriss" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />(Header photo: <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/03/around-hanoi/mcm_0971-2/" target="_blank">Matt Mullenweg</a>)</p> <hr style="clear:both;visibility:hidden;width:100%;"></hr> <div><div id="525044205791886" align="left" style="width: 100%; overflow-y: hidden;" class="wcustomhtml"><object width='446' height='326'><param name='movie' value='http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf'></param><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><param name='bgColor' value='#ffffff'></param> <param name='flashvars' value='vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/TimFerriss_2008P-embed-PARTNER_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/TimFerriss-2008P.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=517' /><embed src='http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf' pluginspace='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' bgColor='#ffffff' width='446' height='326' allowFullScreen='true' flashvars='vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/TimFerriss_2008P-embed-PARTNER_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/TimFerriss-2008P.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=517'></embed></object></div> </div> <div><div id="901454907018665" align="left" style="width: 100%; overflow-y: hidden;" class="wcustomhtml"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,124,0" width="424" height="500" id="TwitterWidget" align="middle"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" /> <param name="movie" value="http://static.twitter.com/flash/widgets/profile/TwitterWidget.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="userID=11740902&styleURL=http://static.twitter.com/flash/widgets/profile/smooth.xml"> <embed src="http://static.twitter.com/flash/widgets/profile/TwitterWidget.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="424" height="500" name="TwitterWidget" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" FlashVars="userID=11740902&styleURL=http://static.twitter.com/flash/widgets/profile/smooth.xml"/> </object></div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div id="footer-wrap"> <div id="footer"> <div class='wsite-elements wsite-footer'> <div><div class="wsite-multicol"><div class="wsite-multicol-table-wrap" style="margin:0 -15px;"> <table class="wsite-multicol-table"> <tbody class="wsite-multicol-tbody"> <tr class="wsite-multicol-tr"> <td class="wsite-multicol-col" style="width:50%; padding:0 15px;"> <div class="wsite-spacer" style="height:50px;"></div> </td> <td class="wsite-multicol-col" style="width:50%; padding:0 15px;"> <div class="wsite-spacer" style="height:50px;"></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div></div></div> <div class="weebly-footer" style="text-align:right;"><div style="height:10px;overflow:hidden"></div> Proudly powered by <a href="https://www.weebly.com/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=footer&utm_campaign=2" href="_blank">Weebly</a> <div style="height:10px;overflow:hidden"></div></div></div> <script type='text/javascript'> // </script> </div> </div> </div> <div id="customer-accounts-app"></div> <script src="//cdn2.editmysite.com/js/site/main-customer-accounts-site.js?buildTime=1680307385"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7870337-1']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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