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show bio Will Pearson
Will Pearson co-founded the magazine mental_floss with Mangesh Hattikudur, while both were students at Duke University. Since establishing the magazine, he has been named in the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by Inc. The magazine focuses on providing its readers with facts and trivia in a quirky manner. The magazine has received good reviews in the twelve years that it has been in print from such media as Newsweek, The Washington Post, and The LA Times. In addition to good reviews, The Chicago Tribune has named mental¬_floss as one of its “50 Favorite Magazines.” The brand has produced nine bestselling books, and a web base of four million monthly readers.
mental_floss: Where Education and Entertainment Meet
Date: 4/15/2009
Will Pearson is president and co-founder of mental_floss, a bi-monthly magazine of facts and trivia that bills itself, "the quirky magazine that teaches you everything you should have learned in school but didn't." Here, Mr. Pearson discusses the magazine in a lecture titled, "Where Education and Entertainment Meet," which highlights twelve things he has learned since the magazine was first published in 2001.
