1. Nicolas Joseph Hanauer was born on September 2,1959 and is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
12 Facts About Nick Hanauer
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Nick Hanauer was born to a secular Jewish family in New York City and raised in Bellevue, Washington.
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Nick Hanauer's brother is Adrian Hanauer, a majority owner of Seattle Sounders FC and a minority owner of the Seattle Kraken.
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Nick Hanauer has managed, founded, or financed over 30 companies across a broad range of industries including manufacturing, retailing, e-commerce, digital media and advertising, software, aerospace, healthcare, and finance, including Insitu Group and Market Leader.
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Nick Hanauer is co-founder of the True Patriot Network, a progressive think tank built upon the arguments he and Eric Liu presented in their 2007 book espousing patriotic progressivism, The True Patriot.
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Nick Hanauer is active in the Seattle community and Washington's public education system.
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Nick Hanauer co-founded the League of Education Voters, a non-partisan political organization dedicated to improving the quality of public education in Washington.
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Nick Hanauer serves on the boards of Cascade Land Conservancy and The University of Washington Foundation.
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Nick Hanauer appeared in the Robert Reich documentary Inequality for All.
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Nick Hanauer noted how it would destroy the middle class and damage the wealthy class.
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Nick Hanauer compared the present to the period preceding the French Revolution in the 18th century.
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Nick Hanauer partially defended Anderson's decision in an interview with Sam Seder, saying he could understand that the position he offered in his talk might be controversial to the business community and that Anderson might have received disproportionate criticism for holding back the talk.