Book · recommended on 4 episodes
Built to Sell
John Warrillow ISBN 1591845823
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John Warrillow ISBN 1591845823
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This book by John Warrillow has come up 4 times on Tim Ferriss. 4 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-05-20 and the most recent from 2026-04-16. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“a book by John Warrillow called Built to Sell, which talks a bit about this, and I thought it was actually very good”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Brian Dean: SEO entrepreneur and founder of Backlinko (acquired by SEMrush) and Exploding Topics; built both off principles from The 4-Hour Workweek. Broke in his dad's basement, Brian Dean used The 4-Hour Workweek to build and sell two companies.
“Another one to look at is Built to Sell. This is a book by John Warrillow. If you were ever considering the possibility of being able to sell this company”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Tim Ferriss: Author of The 4-Hour Workweek, 4-Hour Body and 4-Hour Chef, host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, early-stage startup investor and advisor to companies including Shopify, Uber and TaskRabbit. Tim Ferriss fields a solo live Q&A on PR, marketing, launching products, selling to the affluent, time dilation, and his personal protocols.
“there's a book called built to sell i think the author's name is john warlow and if someone wants to improve their own business”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Luis von Ahn: Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, pioneer of crowdsourcing, co-inventor of CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA, MacArthur Fellow, and consulting professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Duolingo's CEO on monetizing free education, metric-based teams, going public, catching cheaters, and expanding beyond languages.
“there's a good book actually that people can read which gives them pretty much the gist in the title and that is Built to Sell”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Cal Newport: Associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, New Yorker contributing writer, and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email. Here he interviews host Tim Ferriss for a New Yorker piece revisiting The 4-Hour Workweek. Cal Newport interviews Tim Ferriss about how The 4-Hour Workweek warned of unsustainable knowledge work fifteen years early.
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