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Nick Hanauer
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Basic facts
Organization:Second Avenue Partners
Role:Co-founder and parter
Location:Seattle, Wash.
Education:•University of Washington (B.A., philosophy, 1981)
Website:Official website



Nicolas "Nick" Hanauer is a venture capitalist and political activist living in Seattle, Wash. He has worked with over 30 companies as a founder, manager or financier since 1982 and serves on the boards of many public and private institutions. Active in Washington and national politics, Hanauer serves as a director of the Democracy Alliance and founded Civic Ventures, a progressive think tank, in 2015.[1]

Career

Nick Hanauer earned his B.A. in philosophy at the University of Washington in 1981. He became co-chairman of the Pacific Coast Feather Company in 1982, where he continues to serve. In addition to his position at Pacific Coast Feather Company, Hanauer co-founded Museum Quality Framing Company in 1988, which has since grown to 60 stores and crafts custom frames for unframed art.[2] Hanauer became a founding investor and board advisor for Amazon.com from 1995 to 2000.[3]

In 1997, Hanauer founded the advertising firm aQuantive. He served as chairman of the board until Microsoft purchased the company for over $6 billion in 2007. Hanauer founded Gear.com, an online sporting goods retailer, in 1998 and worked there until 2000.[3][1][4]

In 2000, Hanauer co-founded Second Avenue Partners, a Seattle-based venture capital firm, where he serves as a partner. In October 2007, Hanauer became the vice chairman of the board of directors for Marchex, a Seattle-based mobile advertising analytics company that aims to connect online behavior with activity in the real world.[1][5]

Hanauer serves on the boards of several organizations:[3]

  • Cascade Land Conservancy
  • The University of Washington
  • The Seattle Alliance for Education
  • The University of Arizona's MT Lemmon Science Center
  • The University of Arizona's Biosphere 2
  • House Values.com
  • Insitu Group
  • Newsvine

Political activity

Nick Hanauer has been active in politics since co-founding the League of Education Voters (LEV), a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that aims to improve public education, in 2000. Hanauer serves as the co-president of the LEV. Hanauer and his wife, Leslie, also co-manage the Nick and Leslie Hanauer Foundation, a private foundation that supports local and national progressive causes with a focus on education and the environment.[3][6][7]

Hanauer serves as director of the Democracy Alliance, a network of progressive donors that aims to achieve progressive reforms in public policy. He also serves as a board adviser to the progressive policy journal Democracy. [1][8]

Hanauer has co-authored two books alongside Eric Liu. In 2007, the duo published The True Patriot, which aims to challenge "progressives to reclaim patriotism." In 2010, the pair published The Gardens of Democracy, which argues that "fundamental American assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating for the 21st century."[3][9][10]

Hanauer has appeared in two documentary films about income inequality. He was interviewed for American Winter, a 2013 HBO documentary about poverty in the United States. That same year, Hanauer appeared in a documentary called Inequality for All, which followed former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich as he discussed income inequality.[1][11][12]

In January 2013, Hanauer founded the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that aims to reduce gun violence.[1][13]

In 2015, Hanauer founded Civic Ventures, a Seattle-based progressive think tank that aims to challenge the traditional political framework and motivate the development of innovative public policies in Seattle, Washington, and across the country.[1][14]

Hanauer regularly writes opinion pieces that have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, POLITICO and The Atlantic.[1][15][16][17]

Political contributions

Ballot measure activity

The following table details Hanauer's ballot measure contributions available on Ballotpedia:

Ballot measure contributions for Nicolas Hanauer
Ballot measure Position Result
Maine Background Checks for Gun Sales, Question 3 (2016) Supported[18]  DefeateddDefeated
Nevada Background Checks for Gun Purchases, Question 1 (2016) Supported[19]  ApprovedaApproved
Washington Minimum Wage Increase, Initiative 1433 (2016) Supported[20]  ApprovedaApproved
Washington Animal Trafficking, Initiative 1401 (2015) Supported[21] Green check mark transparent.png Approved
Washington Universal Background Checks for Gun Purchases, Initiative 594 (2014) Supported[22] Green check mark transparent.png Approved
Washington Income Tax, Initiative 1098 (2010) Supported[23][24] Defeatedd Defeated
Washington Education Trust Fund Sales Tax Increase, Initiative 884 (2004) Supported[25] Defeatedd Defeated

Candidates

The following table details Hanauer's contributions to political candidates available on Ballotpedia:

Candidate contributions for Nicolas Hanauer
Year Candidate Party Office Amount
2013 Suzanne Dale Estey Nonpartisan Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors $900[26]

TED talk

Nick Hanauer's 2012 TED talk about income inequality.

In March 2012, Hanauer gave a TED talk about income inequality, which TED declined to post on its homepage. Ted curator Chris Anderson wrote on his blog that Ted concluded the talk was "explicitly partisan" and "included a number of arguments that were unconvincing, even to those of us who supported his overall stance". The video was disseminated widely after TED posted it on YouTube, though fans accused TED of censoring Hanauer. In 2014, TED invited Hanauer to speak about income inequality again and posted the talk on its homepage.[1][27][28]

Top influencers by state

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In 2015, Ballotpedia identified Nicolas Hanauer as a top influencer by state. We identified top influencers across the country through several means, including the following:

  • Local knowledge of our professional staff
  • Surveys of activists, thought leaders and journalists from across the country and political spectrum
  • Outreach to political journalists in each state who helped refine our lists

Recent news

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See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Nick Hanauer, "Biography," accessed October 20, 2015
  2. ↑ Museum Quality Framing Company, "Why Museum Quality Framing," accessed October 21, 2015
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Linkedin, "Nick Hanauer," accessed October 20, 2015
  4. ↑ Puget Sound Business Journal, "Nick Hanauer's 2007--a ride on the tech wave," March 5, 2008
  5. ↑ Marchex, "About Us," accessed October 21, 2015
  6. ↑ League of Education Voters, "Mission," accessed October 21, 2015
  7. ↑ Friends of Waterfront Seattle, "Board & Leadership," accessed October 21, 2015
  8. ↑ Democracy Alliance, "Home," accessed October 21, 2015
  9. ↑ Amazon, "The True Patriot," accessed October 20, 2015
  10. ↑ Amazon, "The Gardens of Democracy," accessed October 21, 2015
  11. ↑ American Winter, "Home," accessed October 21, 2015
  12. ↑ IMDB, "Inequality for All," accessed October 21, 2015
  13. ↑ Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, "About," accessed October 21, 2015
  14. ↑ Civic Ventures, "Who We Are," accessed October 21, 2015
  15. ↑ New York Times, "Well-paid Workers Strengthen Local Economies," June 5, 2014
  16. ↑ POLITICO, "The Pitchforks Are Coming...For Us Plutocrats," accessed October 21, 2015
  17. ↑ The Atlantic, "Nick Hanauer," accessed October 21, 2015
  18. ↑ Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics & Election Practices, "Maine Ethics Commission Public Disclosure Site," accessed June 21, 2016
  19. ↑ Public Disclosure Commission, "Raise Up WA," accessed July 28, 2016
  20. ↑ Nevada Secretary of State, "Nevadans for Background Checks," accessed June 18, 2016
  21. ↑ Washington Public Disclosure Commission, "Cash Contributions for: Save Animals Facing Extinction," accessed June 21, 2016
  22. ↑ Washington Public Disclosure Commission, "Cash Contributions for: WA Alliance For Gun Responsibility," accessed June 18, 2016
  23. ↑ Washington Public Disclosure Commission, "Cash Contributions for: Washingtonians for Education Health & Tax Relief," accessed June 18, 2016
  24. ↑ NPR.org, "Surprising Voices On Both Sides of Wash. Income Tax Measure," October 2, 2010
  25. ↑ Follow the Money, "Initiative 884," accessed June 18, 2016
  26. ↑ Washington Public Disclosure Commission, "Cash Contributions for:: Dale-Estey Suzanne E," accessed June 21, 2016
  27. ↑ TEDChris: The untweetable, "TED and inequality: The real story," May 17, 2012
  28. ↑ TED Blog, "How did Nick Hanauer get onto TED's home page?!" August 12, 2014
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