Joshua Davis is the founder and CEO of Storyline, the innovative social network that turns conversation into a living, visual story.
He is also a retired sumo wrestler.
Josh's favorite tea is PG Tips with a splash of milk and a rapid fire burst of honey.
In 2001, Josh competed at the US National Armwrestling championship (lightweight division). He placed 4th and went to Gydnia, Poland to represent the United States at the World Armwrestling Championship, where he finished 17th. Gdynia is famous for having Poland’s longest wooden pier.
Josh parlayed his success on the international arm wrestling circuit into a job as a war correspondent. In 2003, he covered the Iraq war for Wired and went on to pen many high-profile cover stories for the magazine.
In 2009, Josh ate a delicious croissant in New Orleans.
Josh ran into some trouble in 2012. He shimmied his way into Libya to write a story about a UCLA student who joined the revolution. They entered a midnight drift race through the streets of Benghazi, crashed the car, and got taken hostage by a hostile militia.
He was released and moved into a bungalow on John McAfee’s island compound in Belize. Josh and John spent weeks arguing about the meaning of life until John ended the argument by playing Russian roulette with his revolver. Josh’s article about his time with McAfee was nominated for a National Magazine Award in Feature Writing.
In 2015, Josh published his New York Times bestselling book Spare Parts, which chronicles the improbable triumph of an impoverished high school robotics team. The book was named one of the best new books by Amazon and the BBC and was made into the Lionsgate film starring Jamie Lee Curtis, George Lopez and Marisa Tomei.
Flashback: Random House published Josh’s memoir The Underdog in 2005 when he hadn’t done much of anything. The book details Josh’s brief career as a matador in Spain, among other bad early career choices.
In 2013, Josh co-founded Epic Magazine, where he helped people from around the world turn their stories into films and TV shows. Josh produced the 2023 Sundance Audience Award winning film Radical, the 2022 Sundance special jury prize winning film Breaking, and the Apple TV series Little America and The Big Cigar. Epic Magazine was acquired by Vox Media in 2019.
In 2023, Josh and Kyle MacLachlan investigated the strange tale of Varnamtown, North Carolina. The resulting podcast won numerous awards.
In 2025, Penguin published The Uncertainty Principle, a young adult romance novel that Josh wrote with his then 16 year old son Kal. The book tells the story of a family that sails away from the modern world to live on a boat in the Caribbean.
“It is only when we are blinded by a narrow conceptual view of the world that life can seem meaningless.”
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