Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Tim Ferriss is a startup angel investor, American author, entrepreneur, and public speaker. He has written many self-help books, including The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef.

In 2001, Ferriss founded BrainQUICKEN, an online nutritional supplements company. He 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. He is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org.

As an angel investor, Ferriss has invested or advised in startups such as StumbleUpon, Posterous, Evernote, DailyBurn, Shopify, Reputation Defender, Trippy, Foodzie, Badongo, TaskRabbit, RescueTime, and SimpleGeo.