The company was founded when Brown and Hopkins met while working with Google Video to digitize the VHS archives of The Charlie Rose Show in 2006.
Other personalities include Angelina Jolie, who joined a panel of experts in a discourse over displaced children in Iraq, and Esther Dyson who talked about the opportunities from space exploration.
[5] In 2012, Big Think started live-streaming and providing individual and companies with "real-time interaction with notable guests".
[6] As of March 2012, the Big Think YouTube channel passed 20 million views, and the video archive of the website included more than 12,000 clips from more than 2000 of its designated experts.
[4] Big Think has created video series on "Courageous Collaborations", "Academic Freedom" and "Education Innovation".[when?