Kevin Ryan's twenty trends on a whiteboard reach Tim Ferriss' channel
The founder of MongoDB, Business Insider and Gilt sat down for an hour and a quarter, and a six-minute cut of his view of tech's future followed five days later.
Tim FerrissStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan
A usual day on Tim Ferriss' channel brings in something like 42,000 views. Right now it is running at around 72,000, and most of that lift is not coming from anything new.
The week's main upload is a long conversation with Kevin Ryan, the New York investor the description calls the "Godfather of NYC tech." He helped grow DoubleClick from a 20-person startup into a public company, then co-founded MongoDB, Business Insider, Gilt Groupe and Zola, and now runs AlleyCorp. The chapters read like a career in fast-forward: twenty trends sketched on a whiteboard ten years out, Gilt's rise and its "falling knife," recruiting Henry Blodget in thirty minutes, and a YouTube that Ryan, by his own account, didn't start. There are lighter turns too, from ping pong and Ibiza dance floors to a robot massage and an AI agent that switched to Spanish.
Five days later came a six-minute version, "Legendary Investor Outlines Tech's Future in 6 Minutes," and the short form is moving faster than the full episode did. The steadiest worker on the channel is older still: "The Book I Keep Coming Back to Again and Again," five weeks old, has passed 200,000 views and keeps adding thousands a day. Which book it is, the title keeps to itself.
Among the podcast and interview channels around him, Nightcap is having the big stretch, running at more than twice its usual pace, and Rich Roll is busy too, while The Diary Of A CEO Clips is quieter than normal. Ferriss sits third by subscribers in that group, with about 1.8 million.
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The videos drawing views on Tim Ferriss right now
- Channel
- Tim Ferriss
- Subscribers
- 1,790,000
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- September 25, 2026
- Video views so far
- 25,394
- Views on its first day
- 13,064
The numbers
Here is how Tim Ferriss' channel moved this week.
💡 Test your knowledge
Kevin Ryan was CEO of which online advertising company before co-founding MongoDB?
The episode description says Ryan grew DoubleClick from a 20-person startup into a public company.
