#861: 4-Hour Workweek Success Story Brian Dean — From Dad’s Basement to Selling Two Companies

0:00Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs.

0:02This is Tim Ferriss, and welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferris Show.

0:05This is a shorter episode, and by request, many of you have asked for more four-hour workweek case studies.

0:13These are conversations with people who have read the book, applied it, and built lives and businesses that certainly I never could have imagined.

0:22Brian Dean is the focus of today's conversation, and his story starts exactly where a lot of great stories start.

0:30Broke, directionless, and eating canned beef stew in his dad's basement during the 2008 financial crisis.

0:36He picked up a copy of the four-hour work week.

0:38He read it, which is not that uncommon, and then he took action, which is less common.

0:45As is nearly always the case, his path wasn't a straight line going from kind of bottom left of the graph to the top right, but a series of winding turns, all fed by experiments.

0:55And he has learned a lot.

0:57He has done a lot.

0:57Today's episode covers geo-arbitrage, testing assumptions cheaply, building a muse, automating income, and also filling the void.