Built to Sell

This book by John Warrillow has been genuinely recommended 3 times on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about exercise & strength, fasting, motivation & discipline, productivity & performance. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from May 2022 and the most recent from Oct 2022. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “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”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “that, I think, is worth looking at, even if you've never considered that possibility... I would take a look at that”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 202200:26:21

  Said during "Q&A with Tim, PR and Marketing Lessons, Time Dilation, Selling to the Affluent, and Much More". The episode features 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”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “there are books that you can read that i think are interesting... there's a book called built to sell”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202201:27:23

  Said during "Luis von Ahn, Co-Founder of Duolingo, How to Be (Truly) Mission-Driven, 10x Growth, and More". The episode features 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”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “there's a good book actually that people can read which gives them pretty much the gist in the title”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 202200:18:51

  Said during "Cal Newport and Tim Ferriss Revisit “The 4-Hour Workweek” Plus Much More! | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features 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.