Timothy Ferriss

Tim Ferriss is a principal with Alta Malbec Investments (Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Evernote, etc.), and he is also the author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold in 34 languages. His second book, The 4-Hour Body, also hit #1 New York Times and is (as of Sep. 2011) the #1 highlighted book of all-time on Amazon. Since 2003, Tim has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change. Tim was also nominated as one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Business People of 2007" and a Forbes' "Name You Need to Know for 2011." He speaks five languages and is an active education activist who's developed experimental social media campaigns with Donorschoose.org and Room to Read. Tim received his B.A. from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied Neuroscience and East Asian Studies. He is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellows of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.