The Next Big Idea Creators & Guests

Rufus co-founded four companies. First, Nerve.com, in 1997, an early youth culture website, acquired by IAC; second Spring Street Networks, an online dating technology company acquired by Various, Inc.; and third Babble.com, a website for a new generation of parents, acquired by Disney in 2011. Babble evolved into a platform for female influencers, covering a wide range of women's lifestyle topics, distributed through social media.Rufus is currently running Heleo.com, a platform for one person media companies, backed by Comcast, Bertelsmann, Bloomberg, the New York Times, Greycroft, and INovia.Leader of The Next Big Idea Club, which is also a new podcast from Wondery, hosted by Rufus.

Daniel Markovits is a professor of law at Yale Law School. He delivered the 2015 commencement speech at Yale Law School.

Dr. Marc Schulz is a professor of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College, and the Associate Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development.

Tomer Cohen is Chief Product Officer at LinkedIn. He oversees all teams responsible for building and creating LinkedIn's products and experiences.

Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University.

Dr. James Suzman is an anthropologist, writer, and author of the book Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time.

Gretchen Rubin is an author, blogger, and speaker.

Charan Ranganath is a researcher, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and director of the Memory and Plasticity Program at the University of California at Davis.

Brian Lowery is a social psychologist who runs the Leadership for Society program at the Stanford Business School. He's also a Co-Director of Stanford's Institute on Race at Stanford University

Cade Metz is an author, journalist, and science writer.

Yuval Noah Harari is an author, public intellectual, historian, and Professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Cat Bohannon is a researcher, and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition.

Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker known for his books and essays on social science, psychology, and human behavior. He has been a staff writer for New Yorker since 1996. Gladwell gained widespread recognition with his debut book, "The Tipping Point," followed by bestsellers like "Blink," "Outliers," and "David and Goliath." He is also the co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries and hosts the "Revisionist History" podcast.

Scott Galloway is a distinguished American professor, author, entrepreneur, and public speaker, known for his expertise in business strategy and digital marketing. He teaches at New York University’s Stern School of Business and is the author of several bestselling books, including "The Four" and "Post Corona." Galloway is the founder of L2, a business intelligence firm that was acquired by Gartner, and co-hosts the popular podcast "Pivot" with Kara Swisher. His insights into technology, media, and commerce have made him a sought-after commentator on major news platforms. Galloway's dynamic approach to business education and thought leadership has influenced a wide audience of professionals and academics.

Jamie Frederic Metzl is a technology futurist, geopolitical expert, and writer.

Will Storr is an award-winning journalist and novelist whose work has appeared in the Guardian, Sunday Times, The New Yorker, and the New York Times.

Ingrid Fetell Lee is a designer and the founder of the blog The Aesthetics of Joy. She has been featured as an expert on design and joy by outlets such as the New York Times, Wired, PRI's Studio 360, CBC's Spark, and Fast Company. She was formerly Design Director at global innovation firm IDEO and was a founding faculty member in the Products of Design program at the School of Visual Arts.

Olga Khazan is a journalist who reports on health, gender, and science. She is currently a staff writer for The Atlantic.Prior to becoming a staff writer, Khazan was The Atlantic’s Global editor. She has also written for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, and other publications. She is a two-time recipient of the International Reporting Project’s Journalism Fellowship and winner of the 2017 National Headliner Awards for Magazine Online Writing.Khazan's first book, "Weird," is to be published in 2020.Khazan was raised in West Texas. She received her B.A. in political science from American University, and her M.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California. She began reporting at The Eagle newspaper at American.

Amanda Little is an award-winning environmental journalist, author of Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells - Our Ride to the Renewable Future, she also has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Wired, Rolling Stone, and the Washington Post.