COFOUNDERS
Cofounder + Publisher
Amanda Rooker
Amanda Rooker is a writer, editor, and publishing strategist who has spent her career empowering authors to serve their readers at the deepest level.
She is a New York Times bestselling book collaborator, writing coach & consultant, and founding partner of Split Seed Media. Her passion is helping authors see their unique value, discover how their greatest difficulties can be transformed into their greatest gifts, and create books and other practical resources that bear positive fruit in the lives of others.
As cofounder and publisher of Nquire Media, she champions a new kind of nonfiction—one that connects readers to their own wisdom through questions, conversation, and collective discovery.
Amanda has a BA in English from the College of William and Mary and a Master of Divinity from Duke University.
Cofounder + CEO
Dr. Gregory Stock
Dr. Gregory Stock is a leading authority on the broad impacts of advanced technology in the life sciences. He is an adjunct professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where he co-directed the Harris Center for Precision Wellness and worked on the foundations of NextGen wellness and healthcare. He founded and directed the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA’s School of Medicine. He co-founded Signum Biosciences and sits on the board of its spinout, Signum Nutralogix—the creators of the Epicutis suite of skincare products. He is the CEO of Socratic Sciences, which leverages the power of questioning to help people better understand themselves, others, and society, while deepening relationships and reducing social isolation.
Gregory’s book Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future won the Kistler Book Prize for Science books and was nominated for a Wired Rave Award. Among his other books are Engineering the Human Germline, Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism, and his 2025 exploration of the human implications of artificial intelligence: Generation AI and Transformation of Human Being. His international bestseller, The Book of Questions, has been translated into 25 languages, and was the first in a series that has sold 5 million copies and established the genre of question books and decks.
He has a PhD in biophysics from Johns Hopkins and an MBA from Harvard Business School.