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#710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova

The Tim Ferriss Show

December 14, 2023

Brought to you by LinkedIn Ads marketing platform with 1B+ users; Cometeer delicious hyper-fresh, flash-frozen coffee; and Shopify global commerce platform, providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business.

Speakers Tim Ferriss, Jamie Foxx, Maria Popova

TopicsEntrepreneurshipBusiness

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

episode is brought to you by Shopify, one of my absolute favorite companies, and they make some of my favorite products. Shopify is the commerce platform revolutionizing millions of businesses worldwide, and I've known the team since 2008 or 2009 But prior to that, I wish I had personally had Shopify in the early 2000s when I was running my own e-commerce business. I tell that story in the four-hour work week, but the tools then were absolutely atrocious, and I could only dream of a platform like Shopify. In fact, it was you guys, my dear readers, who introduced me to Shopify when I polled all of you about best e-commerce platforms around 2009, and they've only become better and better since. Whether you're a garage entrepreneur or getting ready for your IPO, Shopify is the only tool you need to start, run and grow your business without the struggle. Shopify puts you in control of every sales channel. Doesn't matter if you're selling satin sheets from Shopify's in-person POS system or offering organic olive oil on Shopify's all-in-one e-commerce platform. However you interact with your customers, you're covered. And once you've reached your audience, Shopify has the internet's best converting checkout to help you turn browsers into buyers.

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This episode is brought to you by Cometeer. That's spelled C-O-M-E-T-E-E-R. Cometeer is hyper fresh, expertly brewed, flash frozen coffee that produces an incredibly delicious cup. Now, I have to be honest, I was very skeptical of flash frozen coffee and I thought at face value, this is probably just a gimmick, yada, yada, yada. But as you know, I am an avid coffee drinker. I talk about caffeine and coffee a lot on this show.

And when it landed on my doorstep, when I first started testing it, I thought to myself, this is actually incredible.

It is locked in at peak freshness and you can sample coffee from some of the top roasters, not just in the US, but around the world. And I went in with one eyebrow raised and I'm sure some of you have one raised right now, but the coffee is absolutely delicious. It's pretty incredible.

And I'm able to avoid bitterness completely. Cometeer lets you prepare your coffee with no mess, no machines, no burning, no bitterness whatsoever. It's a fast and foolproof way to a truly delicious cup of specialty coffee. They source high quality beans from the country's top roasters and some outside of the country. That includes Counter Culture, Bird Rock, George Hell, Equator Coffees, which I used to have. I used to drive 45 minutes from my house in San Francisco to have Equator Coffee, just to give you an idea, and you can get it through Cometeer, Birch, Joe Coffee, Red Bay, Go Get Them Tiger, Clatch Onyx, Square Mile, Black and White, Intelligencia, which was in The Four Hour Chef, as an example, in Chicago, and on and on. So you can get all sorts of coffee you wouldn't otherwise be able to get because it is frozen using their process. Their coffee is brewed using proprietary technology to pull out more flavor compounds and antioxidants. Then it's flash frozen at minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit to lock in the incredible flavor and freshness of the specialty brew. I already mentioned this, but it's worth reiterating. Cometeer ships to you in 100% recyclable capsules that you store in the freezer. And if you were to walk into my kitchen right now and look in the freezer, it is chock full of Cometeer coffee. Simply add hot water and you've got a game-changing cup of coffee, liquidy split. It's very fast. It's easily customizable in seconds for iced coffees, lattes, espresso martinis and more. If you've never had an espresso martini, I recommend it. It's pretty game-changing. We'll cover that another time. Cometeer is also great to travel with when you need a cup and don't want to sacrifice quality. Their capsules are TSA approved. So order today at cometeer.com/timtim and listeners of this podcast will receive $25 off of their first order.

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