MarshallBrain.com

Hello, and welcome to MarshallBrain.com. I am glad you have found your way to this site and appreciate your taking the time to visit.

I am best known as the founder of How Stuff Works. I started HowStuffWorks as a hobby in 1998 and it has grown to be one of the top Web sites in the country. In 2007 Discovery Communications purchased HowStuffWorks.com for $250 million. I am also well known as the host of the show “Factory Floor with Marshall Brain” which appeared on the National Geographic channel.

Latest Projects!
WRAL Techwire Articles on Climate Change
The Doomsday Book – The companion website for the book is available here.
MachineThatMakesMoney.com – Your complete online guide to becoming an entrepreneur and starting your startup – Click here to start reading!
Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – The greatest thought experiment of all time!” is now available free here on MarshallBrain.com – Click here to start reading!
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I am known for the Robotic Nation essays and the book Manna. The article How to make a million dollars is also very popular. I am also known as a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at North Carolina State University.

I have appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, the Dr. Oz show, CNN, MSNBC, Modern Marvels, etc. I have been interviewed for hundreds of different newspaper articles, magazine articles and radio shows. If you would like to schedule an interview, please click here.

Today I am a writer, a well-known national speaker, a consultant. I am the Director of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NCSU. I am an active participant in the entrepreneurial community in RTP as a mentor, coach, consultant and adviser. I am very interested in Elon Musk’s Mars ColonyBasic Income and the concentration of wealth, I work with Dr. Seth Hollar on EcoPRT (a envisioned automated transportation system for NCSU), and so on. You can find my resume on LinkedIn. I live in Cary, N.C. with my wife Leigh and our four children. Contact information is available at the bottom of this page.


You may also enjoy these in-depth interviews and videos:

We’re approaching humanity’s make or break period
Getting Over Getting Started
On Robotics and Employment at the Singularity Summit
Part 2
A Conversation with Marshall Brain from MIRI on Vimeo.
Factory Floor with Marshall Brain

Marshall Brain’s Bio

  • Born in Santa Monica, California, on May 17, 1961.
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York
  • M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • Taught in the computer science department at NCSU between 1986 and 1992
  • Named to the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at NCSU in 1992.
  • Started a software training and consulting company in Raleigh in 1992.
  • Named one of the Carolinas’ top entrepreneurs by Ernst & Young in 1999.
  • Founded HowStuffWorks as a hobby in 1998 and turned it into a venture-backed startup in 2000.
  • Won numerous awards while at HowStuffWorks including:
  • Other Achievements:
    • Author of more than a dozen books.
    • Hundreds of live radio and television interviews on radio stations like WABC and TV networks like CNN.
    • Hundreds of radio vignettes for the Cox radio network.
    • Dozens of television news vignettes like this and this.
    • Host of the National Geographic show “Who Knew? with Marshall Brain”

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