Talk:Tim Ferriss

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Hello, I work for Tim Ferriss, and I would like to help update the article, specifically his philanthropic work. Some of the information is already included under Career (paragraph 7), but I think it would be clearer as its own section as follows:

Coyoteadventures (talk) 17:14, 29 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Philanthropy

Tim Ferriss works to advance psychedelic medicine for treatments in the mental health field. He became interested in the potential of psychedelics due to personal experiences with depression, as well as bipolar disorder, depression, and addiction in his family.^[1][2]

In 2015, Ferriss met Dr. Roland Griffiths, who was leading research in psychedelics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Ferriss organized a crowdfunding campaign to support Dr. Griffiths’ research into depression.^[1]

In 2019, Ferriss contributed to Imperial College London’s Center for Psychedelic Research, the first research facility in the world dedicated to psychedelics.^[3]

That year, Ferriss also donated more than $2 million to fund the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research led by Dr. Griffiths, and he organized an additional $8 million in commitments.^[1][4]

The Center was the largest in the world and the first in America to focus on psychedelic drugs.^[5]

In 2020, Ferriss donated $1 million to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies for research into PTSD treatments using psychedelic-drug MDMA. He issued a $10 million challenge grant, and helped to raise a total of $30 million for the research by publicizing the challenge on his podcast.^[6][7]

The following year, Ferriss donated to promote psychedelic research at the Neuroscape Psychedelics Division at the University of California, San Francisco, led by Robin Carhart-Harris and Adam Gazzaley.^[8]

Saisei Foundation

In 2018, Ferriss founded the Saisei Foundation^[9] to provide funding for early-stage science in the areas of mental health, life extension, and psychedelics.^[10]

In 2021, the foundation committed $800,000 to UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics to create the Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship with author Michael Pollan.^[11]

The fellowship provides ten annual grants of $10,000 each to journalists working on in-depth print and audio stories focused on psychedelics.^[12] Articles supported by the fellowship have appeared in media outlets including National Geographic^[13][14], Rolling Stone,^[15] NPR,^[16] and The Washington Post.^[17]

The Foundation also collaborated with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and co-funded POPLAR, the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation. ^[8]

Ferriss was also a member of the National Advisory Council of DonorsChoose^[18] and, as of 2016, was a donor and a member of the advisory board of QuestBridge.^[18][19]

In 2016, as part of a #BestSchoolDay campaign led by Stephen Colbert, Ferriss funded all 145 classroom projects on Long Island,^[20] as well as all the classroom projects in New Hampshire and Sacramento, California with DonorsChoose.org.^[21][22]

The duplicate information can be removed from the Career section. Thanks for your time! Coyoteadventures (talk) 17:14, 29 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Okay, it looks pretty good, so I have added it. What "duplicate information" is there? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 19:03, 10 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you so much.

As some of this information was in the Career section already it now appears as duplicate content. Specifically, the following two sentences (in paragraph 7 of the Career section) can now be removed from that part only:

"Ferriss has raised funds for the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and for the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. Since 2016, Ferriss donated at least $2,000,000 for clinical research into psychedelic drugs.[25][26]"

Can you kindly remove? Coyoteadventures (talk) 19:59, 10 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I hope I got it right. I have to run now. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 21:12, 10 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I’m grateful to the community for helping to create the Philanthropy section. I’d like to propose additional edits to the "Career" section to further update the page:

At the end of the 2nd paragraph of the Career section (which begins with: Ferriss has been and angel investor and startup advisor), please add:

• Tim Ferriss was an advisor to Shopify,^[1] helping them to launch the "Build a Business" competition that fostered web-store startups in 2010 with a $100,000 prize.^[2][3] He was also an investor in Duolingo^[4] and Twitter.^[5]

To the 6th paragraph (which begins with: In December 2013, The Tim Ferriss Experiment debuted on HLN), please add:

• In 2015, Ferriss acquired the rights to all of the show’s episodes. He distributed them on iTunes, where they were featured in the most-downloaded chart.^[6] In 2016, Ferriss was listed in Fortune (magazine)’s 40 Under 40.^[7]

In the second-to-last paragraph (which begins with: Ferriss continues to release episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show), please replace this sentence: Ferriss continues to release episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show, an interview-centered podcast running since April 22, 2014, with the following:

• Ferriss is the host of The Tim Ferriss Show, an interview-centered podcast that has been running since 2014.^[8] The podcast has more than one billion downloads.^[9] Popular podcast guests include Brené Brown,^[10] Jamie Foxx,^[11] Arnold Schwarzenegger,^[12] Maria Sharapova,^[13] LeBron James,^[14] Margaret Atwood,^[15] and Matthew McConaughey.^[16]

To the last paragraph of the Career section about the Legend of Cockpunch, please add:

• Sales of The Legend of Cockpunch NFTs earned more than $2 million, and proceeds were donated to the non-profit Saisei Foundation .^[17]

I'm pinging Valjean who has been helpful in the past.

Thank you for your assistance, Coyoteadventures (talk) 13:41, 19 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Done. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 15:08, 24 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, thanks again for all your help. I have a few more suggestions for the page, and I'd be grateful for assistance in implementing:

In the Early life section, please add:

• At age 15, he spent a year in Japan as an exchange student.^[1][2]
• He was a member of the wrestling team in high school.^[3]

Please create a Personal life section with the following information:

• Ferriss won a National Chinese Kickboxing Championship.^[3]
• He holds the Guinness World Records for tango spins.^[4]

Lastly, please update the lead to reflect Tim's giving. The last sentence of the lead should say:

• He is known for his 4-Hour self-help book series—including The 4-Hour Work Week, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef —that focused on lifestyle optimizations, and for his support of scientific research into psychedelic treatments.

Thank you so much for your help, Coyoteadventures (talk) 15:32, 25 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Done -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 16:29, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello. I'd like to add some additional companies to the "Career" section (investments). In the paragraph that begins "Ferriss has been an angel investor and startup advisor..." please add the following companies:

Digg, StumbleUpon, Posterous, SimpleGeo, and DailyBurn,^[1] as well as Facebook,^[2] Ampa,^[3][4] and Neko Health.^[5] Ferriss also served as a strategic advisor to Evernote.^[6]

Thanks for your help, I'm pinging Valjean who has been helpful on this page in the past. Coyoteadventures (talk) 13:29, 27 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

I have two organizational ideas for the page.

1) The first is breaking the Career section into the following subsections: Early career, Investments, Books, Television, and Podcast.

2) The second is moving the 2 paragraphs starting with "Ferriss has publicly advocated...My favorite writing of all time" into a new section entitled Views.

I am pinging A bag of many boiled potatoes who was helpful in the past. If it's easier, I am happy to make these changes myself with the approval of a neutral editor. Thank you, Coyoteadventures (talk) 14:38, 24 August 2026 (UTC)Reply