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Will Pearson is the president and co-founder of mental_floss, the quirky magazine that teaches you everything you should have learned in school but didn't.

Mr. Pearson and co-founder Mangesh Hattikudur launched mental_floss from a Duke University dorm room in 2001. The magazine has received rave reviews from the national media, including Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, and The LA Times, and was recently chosen by The Chicago Tribune as one of its "50 Favorite Magazines." Over the past eight years, mental_floss has blossomed into a multi-million dollar brand, with 9 bestselling books, a board game, a website with over four million monthly readers, and a line of quirky gift products such as Law School in a Box, Med School in a Box, and MBA in a Box.

In the fall of 2007, Mr. Pearson was named to Inc. magazine's "30 Under 30: America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs." A magna cum laude graduate of Duke, he currently lives in Birmingham, AL with his wife and daughter.