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Tim Ferriss: His number 1 piece of advice to succeed

Proven strategies from expert Tim Ferriss on how to build a successful content business. Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify, sits down with long time friend, author, podcaster, investor and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss at the Shopify Creator Mart in Austin. Tim Ferriss the original content creator, a 5 time #1 New York Times Best selling author of books like The 4 Hour Work Week, host of The Tim Ferriss Show. In their wide-ranging conversation they discuss the evolution of the creator economy and how brands are being built today, how to create a successful content strategy, how to keep your curiosity alive, the best advice Tim has gotten and given over the years, and what he’d do differently when building a business today.

This conversation took place at an exclusive private event in Austin, Texas at the Shopify Creator Mart in 2023.

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00:00 Intro
00:20 The Best Advice Tim Ferriss gave Shopify
02:00 The Build a Business Competition
03:20 What Tim Ferriss would do differently if he wrote the 4 Hour Work Week Today
05:56 Tim Ferriss’ advice for how to build a business today
08:06 Celebrities vs Content Creators: how they have changed how people build brands today
09:40 How to create and audience and convert them
10:44 How to find your content niche
12:35 Tim Ferriss’ Key Ingredient to Success
13:21 Graceful Exits and key ingredient business deals and content creation
15:00 Brad Pitt and why certain content creators are successful
15:56 How to keep your curiosity alive
17:57 How to discover your curiosity
19:50 Authenticity is the ultimate competitive advantage
20:37 The best advice Tim Ferriss has ever received and gives others
24:34 How to be a successful entrepreneur
25:45 Setting expectations for success
27:07 Tim’s dream for Animation
28:13 The product Tim Ferriss would create today
30:24 Audience Q&A
53:50 Wrap up


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Harley Finkelstein is an entrepreneur, lawyer, and the President of Shopify. He founded his first company at age 17 while a student at McGill. Harley completed his law degree as well as his MBA at the University of Ottawa, where he co-founded the JD/MBA Student Society and the Canadian MBA Oath. Harley is an Advisor to Felicis Ventures, and one of the "Dragons" on CBC's Next Gen Den. He received the Canadian Angel Investor of the Year Award, Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award, Fortune's 40 Under 40, and was inducted into the Order of Ottawa. From 2014 to 2017 Harley was on the Board of the C100, and from 2017 to 2020 he was on to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Harley starred on Discovery Channel's I Quit, a television series about hopeful entrepreneurs who decide to quit their 9-5 jobs to focus full-time on their side hustles.

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