Ozan Varol is from Istanbul, Turkey. He grew up in a family of no English speakers yet moved to the United States by himself at 17 to study Astrophysics at Cornell University, where he served on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers project, building stuff that went to the red planet and writing code to photograph the Martian surface. Subsequently Ozan pivoted to law and he is currently the youngest tenured professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. A "true original" in the words of Adam Grant, his work has been described as "must-read" by Susan Cain and featured by the Wall Street Journal, Time, BBC, CNN, Washington Post, Newsweek, Slate, and many other outlets. His newsletter, The Weekly Contrarian, has over 31,000 dedicated subscribers. A sought-after speaker, Ozan has delivered keynotes at conferences, major companies like Microsoft, Intel, General Electric, Lloyds Bank, Google X, and Adidas, and government agencies including the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Navy.