125 Derek Sivers
The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts Episode 125: Derek Sivers Show notes and links at tim.blog/podcast Tim Ferriss: Derek, welcome to the show. Derek Sivers: Thank you. Tim Ferriss: I’m so excited to have you on. This has been in the works for many months, and I’m gonna read a bio, and a short intro for you for folks in a second, but we’re gonna come back to the subject of fasting, because I’m eight days into a 10-day fast, and I was astonished to hear, when we were chatting the other day, that you have done something very similar, if not the same. So, before we get to that, though, for everybody listening, Derek Sivers, one of my favorite humans, so excited to have him on the phone, and here is a sketch of his background. Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers – you should say hi to him @sivers, on the Twitter. That’s S, I V, E, R, S. Created CDBaby in 1998, became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100 million in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CDBaby for $22 million, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He is, and has been, a frequent speaker on the TED conference circuit, with over 5 million views of his talks, and, since 2011, he’s published 24 books, including Anything You Want, which shot to No. 1 on all of its Amazon categories. It is also one of the few business books, which I think, categorically, are generally terrible, that I’ve not only read multiple times, but listened to multiple times.
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