The Tim Ferriss Show
By Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
Tim Ferriss is a self-experimenter and bestselling author, best known for The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been translated into 40+ languages. Newsweek calls him "the world's best human guinea pig," and The New York Times calls him "a cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist monk." In this show, he deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, chess, pro sports, etc.), digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can use.
Episodes (3)
The Tim Ferriss Show
#868: Tim’s Founder Kitchen — From Brainstorm to The President’s Office in Two Months (Featuring Jake Becraft, Strand Therapeutics)
The U.S. is losing its biotech crown to China and Australia not because of inferior science, but because its regulatory system is so slow and costly that it forces innovation overseas—Jake Becraft, CEO of Strand Therapeutics, reveals how a single patient’s sur
The Tim Ferriss Show
#869: Max Levchin, PayPal and Affirm — The Path from The Soviet Union to Building Multi-Billion Dollar Companies (Plus: Real-World Socialism vs. Capitalism)
Max Levchin, born in Soviet Ukraine and arriving in the U.S. just weeks after the USSR collapsed, argues that capitalism isn’t just economically superior—it’s the only system that rewards truth-seeking, innovation, and personal accountability by aligning incen
The Tim Ferriss Show
#870: Sebastian Mallaby, Biographer of Demis Hassabis — Lessons from 100+ AI Insiders on The Race to Superintelligence, The Religion of AI, and Spotting Breakthroughs Early
The most dangerous AI isn’t a rogue superintelligence bent on human extinction—it’s one trained to survive, deceive, and outmaneuver us, a chilling reality Sebastian Mallaby reveals after spending years inside the inner sanctums of AI’s most visionary minds. D
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