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timferriss.com

Investments

48

Portfolio Exits

20

About Tim Ferris

Tim Ferriss is an angel investor who generally invests $10-25K in young, emerging companies with a focus on early stage consumer internet start-ups. Geographically, he looks for companies in Silicon Valley but is open to other opportunities. He seeks to advise his portfolio companies on marketing and PR strategies. He also assists them on improving conversions/sign-ups. Ferriss is also blogger and entrepreneur. His best-known written work is The 4-Hour Workweek, which had been sold into 35 languages and reached #1 on The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. On May 3, 2009, it celebrated its 2nd straight year on The New York Times business bestseller list since its publication on April 27, 2007.<br /><br />Tim is also a guest lecturer at Princeton University, where he has spoken on high-tech entrepreneurship since 2003 in the Electrical Engineering and ORFE departments. Other education-related interests include social media-based fundraising experiments, such as LitLiberation, which was reported to have outraised television host Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 with no fixed costs. He is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org.

Headquarters Location

911 Main Street Suite 2100

San Francisco, California, 64105,

United States

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Latest Tim Ferris News

The truth about the popular Playlist Promotion platform [Brian Hazard]

Nov 15, 2023

The truth about the popular Playlist Promotion platform [Brian Hazard] Indie musician Brian Hazard, who I hereby name the Tim Ferris of music marketing experimentation, digs into the popular Playlist-Promotion.com platform and shares the results. I’d heard good things about  Playlist-Promotion.com  before their manager Andi reached out to me in mid-July. He offered me a campaign valued at $350 for the purpose of a review. I knew they could deliver a good number of placements and streams safely (my #1 priority), but I worried they didn’t have enough playlists specific to synthwave/synthpop. Andi shared my concern and asked if I had songs in another genre. I provided him a link to my (not Spotify’s)  This Is Color Theory playlist  and he came back with three selections he thought would work for pop, indie pop, electro pop and indietronica playlists. We settled on my new (at the time) single, “The Rot.” I gave Andi read-only access to my Spotify for Artists account so he could monitor the results on his end, and promptly departed on a late summer family vacation. My Playlist-Promotion.com Results My song had been added to 26 playlists with a total follower count of 682.3K. A $350 campaign promises a follower reach of 100K, meaning they over-delivered by nearly 7x. Andi assured me that the 100K figure was only a minimum. Depending on how well the song is received by curators, it can go higher. I’m not complaining! Here’s a full list of the playlists my song was added to: Playlist-Promotion.com playlist placements While my song is objectively not a “hit” in any sense, much less an 80s or 90s hit, the placements were on target. I appreciated that there were: No fake soundtrack playlists ✔️ No TikTok playlists ✔️ Those seem to be the bread and butter of most playlisting services. Other than “insomniacs” and “store music,” the playlists are all built around a particular musical style and/or period. That means they’re likely to feature music similar to mine, giving me the best chance of reaching fans of my genre. Or at least not mucking up my Fans Also Like section any more than it already is! (don’t get me started) Of course, follower reach doesn’t say anything about how active the playlists are. Some small playlists generate impressive stream counts, while some big ones are virtually dead. Here are my Spotify for Artists playlist stats after three months. I’ve circled the Playlist-Promotion.com placements. Playlist-Promotion.com playlist stream counts Playlist-Promotion.com is responsible for 32K of the nearly 43K streams of the song since the campaign launched: That number is still rising! My song remains in the top two playlists after three months, which is surprising because curators are only required to keep them in for 30 days. I reached out to Andi to make sure I wasn’t getting special treatment, and he said it happens all the time. Either the curator really likes the song or forgets to remove it. Normally you wouldn’t want over 70% of your streams to come from playlist promotion. Fortunately my other songs are doing well enough that, looking at my catalog as a whole, “other listener’s playlists” only account for 27% of my streams (and that includes my own playlists). As you probably guessed from the playlist names, they mostly reach Spanish-speaking countries, where retro music has a strong following: Keep in mind that the above stats are for all streams of the song, not just Playlist-Promotion.com placements. The top cities look completely reasonable, with no obvious outliers: Playlist-Promotion.com Conclusion I feel entirely confident recommending Playlist-Promotion.com. With so many artists’ music being taken down for botted streams, it’s more important than ever to find a company you can trust. Every service promises “100% organic Spotify promotion” but many (most?) of them are either lying or hiring out a service that is lying to them. If you’d like to try out Playlist-Promotion for yourself, you can get $30 off using coupon code “PASSIVEPROMOTION” (no quotes)  here . I’ll make a small commission, which will go towards further experiments. The only other playlisting service I know is legit is Moonstrive Media (my review  here ), which specializes in SEO playlisting. Their playlist network is unlikely to overlap with Playlist-Promotion.com’s, so you could potentially try both out either sequentially or simultaneously and reach a broader selection of curators. Brian Hazard is a recording artist with over twenty years of experience promoting a dozen  Color Theory  albums, and head mastering engineer and owner of  Resonance Mastering  in Huntington Beach, California. His Passive Promotion blog emphasizes “set it and forget it” methods of music promotion.

Tim Ferris Investments

48 Investments

Tim Ferris has made 48 investments. Their latest investment was in OpenSea as part of their Series A on March 3, 2021.

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Tim Ferris Investments Activity

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Date

Round

Company

Amount

New?

Co-Investors

Sources

3/18/2021

Series A

OpenSea

$23M

Yes

48

3/9/2017

Angel

The Hustle

Yes

1

3/9/2016

Seed VC

Spot Tech

$2M

Yes

1

3/7/2016

Series A

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$99M

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10

12/16/2015

Series B

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$99M

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10

Date

3/18/2021

3/9/2017

3/9/2016

3/7/2016

12/16/2015

Round

Series A

Angel

Seed VC

Series A

Series B

Company

OpenSea

The Hustle

Spot Tech

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Amount

$23M

$2M

$99M

$99M

New?

Yes

Yes

Yes

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Co-Investors

Sources

48

1

1

10

10

Tim Ferris Portfolio Exits

20 Portfolio Exits

Tim Ferris has 20 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Nextdoor on November 08, 2021.

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Exit

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Sources

11/8/2021

Reverse Merger

$99M

10

10/7/2021

Acquired

$99M

3

7/28/2021

IPO

$99M

Public

16

2/3/2021

Acquired

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$99M

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10

8/1/2019

Acquired

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$99M

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10

Date

11/8/2021

10/7/2021

7/28/2021

2/3/2021

8/1/2019

Exit

Reverse Merger

Acquired

IPO

Acquired

Acquired

Companies

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Valuation

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

Acquirer

Public

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Sources

10

3

16

10

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