Speaker Spotlight

Tobias Frere-Jones: Breaking Things Deliberately

Tobias Frere-Jones is one of the world's leading typeface designers. He has created some of the most widely-used typefaces, including…

Joshua Cohen on the Writing Process

Joshua Cohen is the author of Book of Numbers, a critically acclaimed novel called “The Great American Internet Novel," Witz, named a Best…

Speaker Spotlight: Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas  is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate…

Big Think: Maria Szalavitz

Maia Szalavitz is a neuroscience journalist working to change the way we define drug addiction. In her Big Think video…

Speaker Spotlight: Ben Weiss

In 2009, Ben Weiss founded Bai Brands, the producer of antioxidant, low-calorie drinks from coffeefruit. By 2011, the company's annual…

Spotlight on… Jeremy Stoppelman

Jeremy Stoppelman is the CEO of Yelp, Inc., which he co-founded in 2004. The idea for Yelp came to Stoppelman and…

Speaker Spotlight: Brian Sharples

Brian Sharples co-founded HomeAway.com with Carl Shepherd in February 2005. He raised over $400 million in private funding to acquire…

Todd Yellin, Entertainment Technologist

Todd Yellin is Netflix's VP of Product Development. His role revolves around changing the way people find great streaming content to…

Chris Gethard on Learning Improv Technique

American actor, comedian, and writer Chris Gethard recently filmed a Big Think video on the importance of learning improv technique.…

Ralph Rivera

Ralph Rivera is the Director of BBC Digital. He is responsible for the development of BBC's interactive services BBC Online and…