Scott Adams

Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip that is published on Dilbert.com and worldwide in over two-thousand newspapers. Adams is also co-founder of WhenHub.com, an Internet start-up that makes it easy to add long schedules to calendars. Adams is the author of about forty Dilbert-related books, including The Dilbert Principle, a #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million Dilbert books and calendars have been sold. Adams also wrote the surprisingly popular book God’s Debris and its sequel The Religion War. His current book is How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life. Prior to creating Dilbert, Adams worked in a variety of awful jobs in the farming, hotel, banking and telecommunications industries. He has been a snow remover, grass cutter, cow milker, manure shoveler, sapper, hotel clerk, busboy, dishwasher, bank teller, salad maker, short-order cook, commercial lender, computer programmer, project manager, product manager, technology strategist, budget analyst, business case writer, contract negotiator, and a pretend engineer. Adams was also a writer and co-executive producer for the animated Dilbert TV show. Adams has been a restaurant entrepreneur, Internet investor, inventor, food company entrepreneur, and software entrepreneur. Most of those things didn’t turn out well. Adams has a degree in economics from Hartwick College and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a certified hypnotist, but you won’t necessarily remember that tomorrow.