Education
Pearson graduated from Duke in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.
Pearson graduated from Duke in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.
Describing himself, Pearson noted his penchant for eating two M&M"s at the same time, on different sides of the mouth, "making both sides of the mouth equally happy". Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as freshmen at Duke University and in their senior year parlayed their cafeteria conversations into the first issue of mental_floss magazine. In addition to the magazine, a board game, a weekly Cable News Network Headline News segment and a daily updated website, the two have collaborated on seven mental_floss books
Pearson and Hattikidur were named two of thirty promising 2007 entrepreneurs in business magazine Incorporated.