Nick Hanauer Podcast Bio Wiki Age Wife Book and Net Worth
Nick Hanauer (Full Name: Nicolas Joseph Hanauer) is a popular American a Seattle-based serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and activist with a knack for identifying and building transformative business models. As of now, Hanauer works as the host of the Pitchfork Economics podcast.
Following earning a philosophy degree from the University of Washington, Hanauer started to work at a family-owned Pacific Coast Feather Company, where he worked as co-chair and CEO. During the 1980s, Hanauer co-founded Museum Quality Framing Company, a large West Coast franchise.
During the 1990s, he was an early investor in Amazon.com, where Hanauer worked as an adviser until 2000. Hanauer founded gear.com, which finally merged with Overstock.com, and Avenue A Media, which became acquired by Microsoft in 2007 (under the name aQuantive) for $6.4 billion.
Hanauer has managed, founded, or financed over 30 companies across a broad range of industries such as manufacturing, retailing, e-commerce, digital media and advertising, software, aerospace, health care, and finance, including Insitu Group (purchased by Boeing for $400 million), and Market Leader (purchased by Trulia in 2013 for $350 million). In 2000, he co-formed the Seattle-based venture capital company, Second Avenue Partners which “looks to invest in promising teams and transformational ideas in a wide range of areas such as internet, consumer and social media, software, and clean energy.”
Hanauer was born onSeptember 2, 1959, in New York City, New York, in theUnited States. He is63 years old.Hanauer celebrates his birthday on September 2, every year.
He is a man of above-average stature. Hanauer stands at a height of5 ft 10 in(Approx. 1.75 m).
He was born to a secular Jewish family in New York City and brought up in Bellevue, Washington. Hanauer’s brother isAdrian Hanauer, the majority owner of Seattle Sounders FC and a minority owner of the Seattle Kraken. His brother Adrian is also a retired minority owner of Reign FC, a team in the National Women’s Soccer League now known as OL Reign.
Hanauer is married to his wifeLeslie Hanauera liberal political activist and philanthropist and the codirector of their foundation, the Nick and Leslie Hanauer Foundation. The pair has two children includingDiesel Hanauer.The family resides in Seattle.
After completing his primary and high school education, Hanauer attended the University of Washington. Later on, Hanauer graduated earning a philosophy degree.
He is the host of the Pitchfork Economics podcast alongside some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, that everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if they don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.
In May 2012, many online news outlets announced that Hanauer’s March 1, 2012, TED talk on inequality had not been posted online by TED Talks. Over that short presentation, Hanauer criticized what he also called “an article of faith for Republicans”, namely the assertion that “if taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down”, saying:
Businesses and the rich do not create jobs. Jobs are created by a feedback loop between customers and businesses that is set in motion by consumers increasing their demand.
On November 8, 2011, Hanauer and Eric Lie authored a published a book titled The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government. This book also is a much-needed call to action for citizens to embrace their roles in a democratic society.
He works as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist and is the host of the Pitchfork Economics podcast. Therefore, Hanauer has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Hanauer’s estimated net worth is$821,342.
Hanauer is a 63-year-old who was born on September 2, 1959, in New York City, in the United States.
He works as a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and activist. As of now, Hanauer works as the host of the Pitchfork Economics podcast.
