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Venture capitalist

Nick Hanauer is a renowned venture capitalist, born in 1959. He has over 30 years of experience in Silicon Valley and has founded several successful technology companies. Hanauer is known for his unique perspective and forward-thinking in the investment field, and he is also an active social activist and writer.

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“You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you." And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, "I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it that way."”

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“I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.”

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“Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.”

“Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.”

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“Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.”

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“The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.”

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“Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.”

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About the Author

Born: 1959
Known for: Venture capitalist
Quotes: 21

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