Bio
David Rush is one of the most prolific Guinness World Records title holders on the planet and his records have been viewed and heard over 150 million times. He is an author, speaker, entertainer, MC, and former Startup Product Manager #1 at Cradlepoint, the most valuable tech unicorn exit in Idaho’s history. He has an electrical engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Boise State.
At MIT, he won best undergraduate lab of the year in electrical engineering for a juggling simulator. He’s a two-time winner of the MIT-wide Talent show and a two-time finalist at Idaho’s Got Talent. He has been a guest on the TODAY show (2x), Tamron Hall Show, Huckabee Show, and dozens of others; and has competed on America’s Got Talent (season 15, yes from Simon). His records have made the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallow, The Late Late Show with James Corden, The Ellen Show, and Late Night with Seth Meyers. He’s broken over 250 Guinness World Records Titles promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math through talks, RecordBreakerRush.com and DavidRush4STEM.com – all since late 2015.
He is the world’s fastest juggler, the world’s slowest juggler, and has the record for most bowling balls juggled, most consecutive ax juggling catches, and longest duration balancing a bicycle on the chin.
After earning his electrical engineering degree he spent time as an ASIC Design Engineer at Marvell Semiconductor. While at Boise State he focused on entrepreneurship and competed in several business plan competitions in the US and abroad. At the Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition, he won the Benchmark Capital Challenge beating teams from France, Germany, and China.
He was product manager #1 at Cradlepoint starting April 2010 with the largest startup tech exit in Idaho history in 2020 when purchased for $1.1B by Ericsson.
David is a dynamic speaker that engages audiences on any topic ranging from a growth mindset, comedic juggling, and current events to LTE, 5G, and beyond.
In 2015 he started setting Guinness World Records to promote STEM education and espouses the power of having a growth mindset.
David and Jennifer met as students at MIT. They were married in 2009 and they have enjoyed seeing the world together with their two boys. Jennifer is a mechanical engineer at HP.
Media
- David’s Records have been viewed and heard over 150 million times
- America’s Got Talent Season 15 (Yes from Simon!)
- TODAY Show with Hoda Kotb (2016)
- TODAY Show with Al Roker (2022)
- Tamon Hall Show with Tamron Hall
- ABC News Live Prime with Kayna Whitworth
- Late Late Show with James Corden
- Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
- Mr. Beast Reacts
- The Ellen Show
- Seth Meyers
- Guinness World Records “Meet the Record Breakers” and “Best of the Month” regular
- Inside Edition
- Morning Edition on NPR
- Bob and Tom Show
- Dan Le Batard Show
- ESPN’s Highly Questionable
- BBC Radio
- Huckabee Show
- Dozens of radio interviews
- Thousands of appearances on local, national, and international media for inspiring (and crazy) record attempts.
- Dozens of TV appearances promoting STEM education
- All 4 major news outlets in Taipei, Taiwan
- TV TOKYO’s TSUBORU
- Germany’s TV SKY “Eine Liga für sich” ( A league of their own )
- Germany’s RTL “Darf er das? Live! Die Chris Tall Show” (in English: Can he do that?)
- KTLA LA Morning News
- Many many more
Quotes
“David Rush takes juggling to a whole new level” – Hoda Kotb, TODAY
“Sounds impossible, well David went for it” – Tamon Hall, TAMON HALL SHOW
“It’s a yes from me” – Simon Cowell – America’s Got Talent
“Wow!” “Crazy” Al Roker, TODAY
“That is Wild!” Craig Melvin, TODAY
“I don’t even know how this is possible” Sheinelle Jones, TODAY
“few do it with the style and panache of David Rush.” – Dr. Robert Kustra – President, Boise State University
“David has a tremendous ability to engage audiences… with his unique combination of suspenseful juggling and inspirational stories.” Don Bossi – President, FIRST
“You are so motivating” Tamon Hall, TAMON HALL SHOW
“One very talented person” – Billy Bush, TODAY
“You deserve to be recognized… “ Dave Beiter – Mayor, Boise
“Man of many talents” John Evans – Mayor, Garden City
“Tossing balls in the air is only one of his specialties” – Hoda Kotb, TODAY
it kind of hurt my brain to watch some of those things” -Desirae Bronson – Idaho’s Got Talent Judge
“It takes a lot of practice” Dylan Dreyer, TODAY
That was amazing!” -Kelsey McFarland – Multimedia Journalist
“That’s quite a show brother!” Mickey Ray – Idaho’s Got Talent
“It’s fun and fun to watch you!” Sheinelle Jones, TODAY
“You’re competitive. I can see it. You’ve changed to the Michael Jordan of Push Pins” Tamon Hall, TAMON HALL SHOW
“It blew me away!” Deni Hawkins – KBOI reporter
“This is the coolest thing ever!” Charity – Idaho’s Got Talent Judge
that’s pretty impressive” – Don Nelson – ABC KIVI News 6 on your side
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He’s on a mission”. – NBC Channel 7 KTVB
he destroyed [the] record” – CBS News
“His message is engaging and inspiring…” – Matt Freeman, Executive Director – Idaho State Board of Education
“David’s ability to inspire students and adults alike … make him a phenomenal addition to any event.” Angela Hemingway, Executive Director – Idaho STEM Action Center
“David’s extraordinary balance and juggling skills get your attention; his message about STEM inspires.” Michael Gilmore – Deputy Attorney General at Idaho Attorney General
“truly inspires.”C. Scott Smith, MD, Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, University of Washington
“David’s juggling drew the crowd’s attention to what he was doing and engaged us all into hearing about STEM.” – Dr. Lorna Finman, founder – STEM Bus USA; CEO – LCF Enterprises
“David’s ability to entertain, educate, and motivate … is amazing!”
Mr. Jeff Walker – Emmett Middle School Teacher
“This is something you’re passionate about – promoting STEM education” Sheinelle Jones, TODAY
“David has the ability to inspire students of all ages…”
Leandra Aburusa-Lete, Student Support Coordinator, College of Engineering at Boise State University Engineering & Science Festival
“David creates excitement” David Hill, Idaho State Board of Education
Great job David! It’s inspiring to see a person take his passions and run with it – especially to set new World Records! Keep up the great work!
Saw you on Huckabee tonight, Nov 23rd. Thanks for the chair performance.
I saw you on KTVB this morning, good job.
When I worked as a stagehand in Vegas, I did lighting for quite a few jugglers: Anthony Gatto, David Lucas, my friend Wally Eastwood, Dick Franco and a few others you’ve probably heard of.
One of my recent lighting jobs was installing the new ETC Lighting Console and updating the lighting at Cole.
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I see your youtube channel and I have seen most of the videos. That’s really wonderful. I want to just say Keep it up…
Hi David, I think I spoke to you a long time ago about me riding a bike long distance and juggling and you hadn’t heard of that?
Either way you are truly incredible but I want your latest record (juggling on euc). I remember the guy I talked to had record for marathon juggling and said you can drop it but must go back. Is that still true, I did’nt see you drop it in clip. If you did it without dropping it at all I will really be pressed to top you. BTW the 502 balls in a min. is insane!
Hey. I think the bike distance minimum is either 50k or 50m. For the fastest marathon, you can drop and go back to the drop spot and restart. Furthest distance on foot juggling a drop ends it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnNoRvq3n6s. This is a distance record, not a fastest record, so for this one, a drop would have ended it as well. Thanks!