#861: 4-Hour Workweek Success Story Brian Dean — From Dad’s Basement to Selling Two Companies

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris and welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show. This is a shorter episode, and by request, many of you have asked for more four hour workweek case studies. These are conversations with people who have read the book. applied it and built lives and businesses that certainly I never could have imagined. Brian Dean. Is the focus of today's conversation and his story. Starts exactly where a lot of great stories start. Broke, directionless, and eating canned beef stew in his dad's basement.

during the two thousand eight financial crisis. He picked up a copy of the four hour work week, he read it, which is not that uncommon, and then he took action, which is less common. As is nearly always the case, his path wasn't a straight line going from kind of bottom left of the graph to the top right, but a series of winding turns all fed by experiments. And he has learned a lot. He has done a lot. Today's episode covers geo arbitrage, testing assumptions cheaply, building a muse. automating income and also filling the void. That's a chapter that a lot of people skip over. His journey includes failures, two successful exits, and a hard one answer to the question that most people Don't think to ask until it's kind of late in the game. What do you actually do?

With more time once you have it. Good. problem to have, but quality problems can still be pretty gnarly if you don't Think about them in advance. So before we get to the conversation, a little more on Brian. Brian Dean is the founder of Back Linco and Exploding Topics. Both acquired by SERush, which itself was recently acquired by Adobe for$1.9 billion. His work has reached millions of readers and has been featured in outlets like Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. You can find him on LinkedIn. Brian E. Dean, that's B-R-I-A-N.

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