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.

'Entrepreneurship isn't about starting companies. Entrepreneurship is an approach to life.' — Ed Zschau

Ed Zschau [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Zschau] is the Interim President of Sierra Nevada College [https://www.sierranevada.edu/] and he brings to the college 17 years of leading technology companies. He founded System Industries [https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1794Q:US] in Palo Alto California in 1969 and as its CEO led it to a successful IPO in 1980. In the 1990s he was the General Manager of the IBM [https://www.ibm.com/] Storage Systems Division headquartered in San Jose California. Ed has a total of 10 years of teaching experience as a professor in the graduate business schools at Stanford University [https://www.stanford.edu/] and Harvard University [https://www.harvard.edu/] and he has taught high tech entrepreneurship courses for a total of 22 years in the engineering schools at Princeton University [https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?courseid=002518&term=1114] Caltech [https://www.caltech.edu/] and University of Nevada Reno [https://www.unr.edu/]. In addition to serving on the boards of major public companies such as Reader's Digest [https://www.rd.com/] and StarTek [http://www.startek.com/] Ed has helped to start and build several technology companies during the past 20 years some of which were founded and led by his former students.

In the 1980s Ed represented the Silicon Valley area of California for two terms in the US House of Representatives [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Z000014] serving on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Also during the 1980s he was a General Partner of Brentwood Associates [http://www.brentwood.com/] a venture capital firm and he was the Founding Chairman of The Tech Interactive [https://www.thetech.org/] (formerly The Tech Museum of Innovation) a non-profit educational institution in San Jose California.

Ed holds an A.B. degree (cum laude) in Philosophy (bridging with Physics) from Princeton University as well as M.B.A. M.S. (Statistics) and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and a Doctor of Laws degree (Honoris Causa) from the University of San Francisco [https://www.usfca.edu/]. Currently he is a Senior Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology [https://ccst.us/].

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#380: Ed Zschau — The Polymath Professor Who Changed My Life

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