Tim Ferriss is a self-experimenter and bestselling author, best known for The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been translated into 40+ languages. Newsweek calls him 'the world's best human guinea pig,' and The New York Times calls him 'a cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist monk.' In this show, he deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, chess, pro sports, etc.), digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can use.

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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show [http://tim.blog/podcast?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast-description] where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types—from startup founders and investors to chess champions to Olympic athletes. This episode however is an experiment and part of a shorter series I'm doing called 'Books I've Loved.' I've invited some amazing past guests close friends and new faces to share their favorite books — the books that have influenced them changed them and transformed them for the better. I hope you pick up one or two new mentors — in the form of books — from this new series and apply the lessons in your own life.

Steve Jurvetson (@jurvetson [https://www.facebook.com/jurvetson]) is an early-stage venture capitalist with a focus on founder-led mission-driven companies at the cutting edge of disruptive technology and new industry formation. Steve was the early VC investor in SpaceX [http://www.spacex.com/] Tesla [http://tesla.com/] Planet [https://www.planet.com/] Memphis Meats [http://www.memphismeats.com/] Hotmail [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook.com] and the deep learning companies Mythic [https://www.mythic-ai.com/] and Nervana [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervana_Systems]. He has led founding investments in five companies that went public in successful IPOs and several others that were acquired for a total of over a $100 billion in value creation.

Before founding Future Ventures [https://future.ventures/] and DFJ [https://dfj.com/] before that Steve was an R&D engineer at Hewlett Packard [https://www8.hp.com/us/en/home.html] and worked in product marketing at Apple [https://www.apple.com/] and NeXT [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT] and management consulting with Bain & Company [https://www.bain.com/]. He currently serves on the boards of Tesla SpaceX and D-Wave [https://www.dwavesys.com/].

Please enjoy!

You can find all books mentioned in this episode in the show notes [https://tim.blog/2019/12/30/steve-jurvetson-recommended-books/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast-description].

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