1. Nicole Ann Shanahan was born on September 26,1985 and is an American attorney and entrepreneur working in Silicon Valley.
52 Facts About Nicole Shanahan
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Nicole Shanahan was a fellow at Stanford Law School's CodeX, Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
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Nicole Shanahan married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2018; they separated in 2021 and divorced in 2023.
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Nicole Shanahan reportedly has a net worth over $1 billion, primarily as a result of her marriage to Brin.
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Nicole Shanahan has questioned the scientific consensus on vaccine safety and efficacy.
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Nicole Shanahan was born to Shawn and Amy Nicole Shanahan in Placer County, California, on September 26,1985.
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Nicole Shanahan said her father, a computer specialist of German and Irish descent who died in 2014, had bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression, and struggled with substance abuse.
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Nicole Shanahan's mother was born in China and immigrated to the US from Guangzhou in the 1980s; she worked as a maid before becoming an accountant.
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Nicole Shanahan attended Saint Mary's College High School, a private Catholic school in Berkeley, California.
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Nicole Shanahan then moved to Tacoma, Washington, where she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Puget Sound in 2007.
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Nicole Shanahan became interested in patent law as a law student; after becoming a lawyer, she founded a Palo Alto-based legal tech company, ClearAccessIP, and was its CEO.
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Nicole Shanahan sold the company to a competitor, IPwe, in 2020, in exchange for an estimated $20 million in IPwe stock; IPwe went bankrupt in 2024.
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Nicole Shanahan has spoken about the impact of artificial intelligence on law and the legal profession.
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Nicole Shanahan was a fellow at Stanford Law School's CodeX, Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
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Nicole Shanahan served as executive producer for the films Kiss The Ground and Evolver.
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Nicole Shanahan is a member of the board of Carbon Royalty Corp.
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Nicole Shanahan invested in Linus Biotechnology, Inc, a biotech firm, during a venture funding round in January 2023.
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Nicole Shanahan is the "Global Joy Officer" and a member of the board at the Sloomoo Institute.
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In 2018, Nicole Shanahan helped fund and launch the Center for Female Reproductive Longevity and Equality within the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
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Nicole Shanahan made another contribution to the foundation in 2021, but did not contribute in 2022.
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In 2019, Nicole Shanahan pledged to contribute $100 million through Bia-Echo over five years, mostly for "reproductive longevity" research, which aims to help women become pregnant later in life.
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Nicole Shanahan has repeatedly criticized in vitro fertilization and championed unconventional research that she believes might allow women to have children into their 50s.
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In 2022, Nicole Shanahan gave $70 million to Blue Meridian Partners, which makes grants to nonprofits that aim to help the impoverished.
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Nicole Shanahan co-hosted a fundraiser for Buttigieg in December 2019, along with other wealthy Silicon Valley figures.
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Nicole Shanahan separately donated half a million dollars to a different super PAC supporting Kennedy's campaign.
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In March 2024, Kennedy's campaign manager and daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, confirmed that Nicole Shanahan was on the candidate's "short list" of potential running mates.
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Nicole Shanahan left the Democratic Party when she joined the ticket.
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Nicole Shanahan was the richest candidate for vice president in at least 50 years, with a net worth possibly in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Nicole Shanahan was among the top self-funded candidates of the 2024 election cycle.
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Nicole Shanahan rarely appeared at campaign events and infrequently gave interviews to mainstream outlets.
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Nicole Shanahan's first solo appearance on the campaign trail was a month and a half after Kennedy named her as his running mate.
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Nicole Shanahan suggested that the campaign had no realistic prospect of winning the general election; that "we draw votes from Trump"; and that if Kennedy remained in the race, it would "run the risk of" aiding Kamala Harris.
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Kennedy and Nicole Shanahan suspended their campaign two days later and endorsed Trump.
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Nicole Shanahan specifically stated that she is not a Harris Democrat or a Trump Republican.
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In October 2024, The Washington Post reported that Nicole Shanahan attempted to bribe a journalist from the same newspaper with US$500,000 to reveal the sources of a profile story on her.
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In interviews in 2024, Nicole Shanahan said she is "not an anti-vaxxer" but expressed support for Kennedy's anti-vaccine advocacy and questioned the scientific consensus on their safety and efficacy.
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Nicole Shanahan criticized the Biden administration for lending military aid to Ukraine.
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Nicole Shanahan named the libertarian Republican US Representative Thomas Massie as one of her "favorite" members of Congress.
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On January 28,2025, Shanahan released a video on X where she threatened political retribution against any senator, Democrat or Republican, who didn't vote to confirm her former presidential running mate Robert F Kennedy Jr.
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Nicole Shanahan specifically called out Republican senators Mitch McConnell and Lisa Murkowski as well as Democratic senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia as well as independent senator Bernie Sanders.
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Nicole Shanahan has spread misinformation related to the chemtrails conspiracy theory.
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In 2014, Nicole Shanahan married Jeremy Asher Kranz, a San Francisco Bay Area investor and finance executive.
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Nicole Shanahan had met Brin at a yoga festival in Lake Tahoe in 2014; they married in 2018.
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Brin and Nicole Shanahan maintained an estate at Point Dume in Malibu, California, purchased in 2020.
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In 2022, Nicole Shanahan sought the advice of Dr Jack Kruse, a neurosurgeon turned paleo-diet advocate and wellness guru.
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Nicole Shanahan took his advice and modified her home to limit non-sun light, as well as Wi-Fi and cellular signals.
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Forbes reported that Nicole Shanahan likely received around 2.6 million Alphabet Class B shares from Brin, worth $390 million in March 2024, and possibly an additional, equal amount of Class C shares.
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The New York Times, citing three people with knowledge of Nicole Shanahan's finances, reported she has a net worth over $1 billion, mainly as a result of her marriage to Brin.
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In 2023, Nicole Shanahan held a "love ceremony" of commitment with Jacob Strumwasser, an advisor at Lightning Labs, a Bitcoin software company.
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Nicole Shanahan described the event as a handfasting ceremony influenced by Druidic tradition.
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In 2025, Nicole Shanahan announced her conversion from Judaism to Christianity.
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Nicole Shanahan converted to Judaism in 2014 while she was engaged to Jeremy Kranz, her first husband.