Tim Ferriss - Curating Curiosities - [Invest Like the Best, EP.369]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Colossus

Technology, Business, Investing

4.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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My guest today is Tim Ferriss. Tim is a writer, podcaster, and investor. He has written five best-selling books, has been an early-stage investor in Facebook, Uber, Shopify, & other household names, and is the host of one of the biggest podcasts in the world. He started The Tim Ferriss Show as an experiment in April 2014 and has deconstructed world-class performers ever since. Last year, his show crossed 1 billion downloads. Together, we deconstruct his podcast and approach to life. We talk about the art of interviewing, the business behind his podcast, and what motivates Tim to keep teaching through his writing and podcast. Please enjoy this great conversation with Tim Ferriss. Check Out Invest America 2024 Listen to Founders Podcast For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here. ----- This episode is brought to you by Tegus, the only investment research platform built for the investor. With traditional research vendors, the diligence process is slow, fragmented, and expensive. That leaves investors competing on how well they can aggregate data — not on their unique ability to analyze insights and make great investment decisions. Tegus offers an end-to-end platform with all the data you need to get up to speed on a company or market: up-to-the-minute financials, customizable models, management and culture checks, and, of course, our vast and growing library of expert call transcripts. Tegus is changing the world of expert research. Learn more and get your free trial at tegus.com/patrick. ----- Invest Like the Best is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Invest Like the Best, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Past guests include Tobi Lutke, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, John Collison, Kat Cole, Marc Andreessen, Matthew Ball, Bill Gurley, Anu Hariharan, Ben Thompson, and many more. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Show Notes: (00:00:00) Welcome to Invest Like the Best (00:03:32) The Evolution of Podcasting with Tim Ferriss (00:09:56) Crafting Meaningful Conversations (00:13:26) What Makes Tim Feel The Most Alive (00:24:06) Who Tim Considers To Be His Mentors (00:29:06) The Ingredients Of A World Class Performance (00:31:06) The Business Side of Podcasting (00:43:15) Identifying Emerging Trends (00:50:12) Lessons From Building a Small, Efficient Team (00:52:32) The Power of Constraints in Personal and Professional Growth (00:53:10) Innovating Against the Grain (Anti-Video Experiment) (00:54:54) Navigating Fame, Money, and Power (01:02:00) The Impact of Sharing Difficult Stories (01:06:18) Meta-Learning: A Framework for Fast, Effective Learning (01:12:32) Reflecting on a Decade of Podcasting & What’s In Store (01:24:41) The Kindest Thing Anyone Has Ever Done For Tim

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by TIGAS, the only investing research platform built for the investor.
0:04.8	With traditional research vendors, the diligence process is slow, fragmented, and expensive.
0:09.6	That leaves investors competing on how well they can aggregate data, not on their unique ability to analyze insights and make great investment decisions.
0:17.0	Tagus offers an end-to-end platform with all the data you need to get up to speed on a company or a market.
0:22.8	Up to the minute financials, customizable models,
0:25.5	management and culture checks,
0:27.2	and of course, are vast and growing library
0:29.4	of expert call transcripts.
0:31.0	Tegis is changing the world of expert research. Learn more and get your free trial at
0:35.4	Tegus.com. Patrick. You may have heard me reference the idea of maniacs on a mission and how much that idea excites me.
0:44.0	Well, David Senra is my favorite maniac on one of my favorite missions with his
0:48.0	weekly crafting of the Founders Podcast.
0:50.0	Through studying the lives of legends, he weaves together insights across history to distill ideas that you can use in your work.
0:57.0	Founders reveals tried and true tactics, battle tested by the world's icons and has David's infectious energy to accompany them.
1:05.0	With well over 300 episodes, your heroes are surely in the lineup and his recent episode on Oprah is particularly great.
1:12.0	Founders is a movement that you don't want to miss.
1:14.0	It's part of the Colossus Network,
1:16.0	and you can find your way to David's great
1:18.0	podcast in the show notes.
1:20.0	Past guest Brad Durser
1:22.0	is building awareness for a new initiative called Invest America,
1:25.0	which would give each child born in America a 401k and expose them to the upside of American companies and markets.
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