About Scott Adams
Early Years
Born 6/8/57
Grew up in Windham NY, in the Catskill Mountains.
Middle child with two siblings
Son of a postal clerk and a real estate agent
High school Valedictorian
School
BA in Economics
Hartwick College
MBA
Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley
Pre-Dilbert Career
Crocker National Bank (eight years): Teller, management trainee, computer programmer, commercial lender, product manager, project manager, and budget supervisor
Pacific Bell (eight years): Budget and financial analysis, fake engineer (literally) in a technology lab
Dilbert
Dilbert launched in 1989 in a handful of newspapers. Now Dilbert appears in over 2,000 newspapers, in 57 countries, and in 19 languages
Dilbert.com was the first website for a daily syndicated comic strip
Won the Reuben award, cartooning’s highest honor, in 1997
Over 20 million Dilbert books and calendars are in print
Dilbert has been the top selling page-a-day calendar for a number of years
Adams was co-executive director of the Dilbert animated TV show that ran on UPN for two half-seasons, writing or co-writing most of the episodes
Dilbert-themed Books
The Dilbert Principle (#1 NYT Bestseller)
Dogbert’s Top Secret Management Handbook (#1 NYT Bestseller)
The Dilbert Future
Dilbert and the Joy of Work
Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel
Non-Dilbert Books and Articles
God’s Debris
The Religion War
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey-Brain
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Guest writer for Wall Street Journal, TIME and more
Loserthink
Win Bigly
Non-Dilbert Businesses
Co-founder of startup CalendarTree.com (current)