Tim Urban

Tim Urban is the writer/illustrator and co-founder of Wait But Why, a long-form, stick-figure-illustrated website with over 600,000 subscribers. He has produced dozens of viral articles on a wide range of topics, from artificial intelligence to social anxiety to humans becoming a multi-planetary species. Tim's 2016 TED main stage talk is the second most-watched in history with 73 million views. In 2023, Tim published his bestselling book What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies.