Tim Ferriss

What Tim Ferriss Says About Investing

8 episodes about investing

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40...

Key Insights on Investing

Investment matching is crucial - if she's at level 3 and you're acting like level 9, you look anxious and needy

  • FM Investments grew from $0 to $10 billion in assets under management in just over five years by focusing on simple, low-cost Treasury and bond ETFs.
  • FM Investments built an anti-hallucination large language model trained on 1,784 documents to simulate Fed candidate Kevin Warsh's policy positions.
  • Profitability in AI comes from accurately predicting demand rather than underinvesting, with inference margins exceeding 50%
  • The Louisiana Purchase, bought for $340 million in today's money, is now worth at least $60 trillion—a 17,640,000% return on investment
  • Chucky agent acts as an interactive portfolio representative for AI builders, inspired by the job interview scene from Good Will Hunting
  • "First 10 respondents were all no" when asked if they have 25% of crypto portfolio in DeFi after recent hacks
  • Technology earnings up 18% but stocks down 12%, representing 25% multiple compression as AI investments shift companies from asset-light to asset-heavy models

Episodes

Elad Gil, Consigliere to Empire Builders — How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else, The Misty AI Frontier, How Coke Beat Pepsi, When Consensus Pays, and Much More

Elad Gil, Consigliere to Empire Builders — How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else, The Misty AI Frontier, How Coke Beat Pepsi, When Consensus Pays, and Much More

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

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

Q&A with Tim — The Upcoming AI Tsunami and Building Offline Advantage, Book Recommendations, Spotting Psychedelic Red Flags, Courage as a Learnable Skill, and More

Q&A with Tim — The Upcoming AI Tsunami and Building Offline Advantage, Book Recommendations, Spotting Psychedelic Red Flags, Courage as a Learnable Skill, and More

How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman

How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman

Balaji Srinivasan — Bitcoin and Ethereum, Lee Kuan Yew, US vs China, and More

Balaji Srinivasan — Bitcoin and Ethereum, Lee Kuan Yew, US vs China, and More

Tactics and Strategies for a 2026 Reboot — Essentialism and Greg McKeown (Repost)

Tactics and Strategies for a 2026 Reboot — Essentialism and Greg McKeown (Repost)

Bill Gurley — Investing in The AI Era, 10 Days in China, and Important Life Lessons from Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, MrBeast, and More

Bill Gurley — Investing in The AI Era, 10 Days in China, and Important Life Lessons from Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, MrBeast, and More

The Random Show — The 2–2–2 Rule, The Future of AI, Bioelectric Medicine, Surviving Modern Dating, The Promises of DORAs for Alzheimer’s, and Wisdom from Anthony de Mello

The Random Show — The 2–2–2 Rule, The Future of AI, Bioelectric Medicine, Surviving Modern Dating, The Promises of DORAs for Alzheimer’s, and Wisdom from Anthony de Mello

Books on investing

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