Tim Ferriss on Tim Ferriss (and much much more)

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We'd love to hear from you. Today is July 23rd, 2025, and my guest is author. podcaster, life hacker extraordinaire Tim Ferris. His podcast, The Tim Ferris Show, has over one billion with a B billion downloads since he began in 2014. His books, which include The Four-Hour Work Week, Tribe of Mentors, Tools of Titans, have sold millions of copies.

In 2018 he founded the Sai Sei Foundation to fund unorthodox research explore trad treating conditions that are widely considered untreatable and challenge existing frameworks and paradigms within science and medicine. Tim, welcome to Econ Talk. Thanks for having me. Great to see you.

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