Nick Hanauer
Nick Hanauer
Nick Hanaueris an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist living in Shoreline, Washington...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
capitalist class growth investing middle source thriving
A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.
customers love
The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
air expensive family private travel
The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.
creates
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
Prosperity isn't something that squirts out of rich people.
drive few great matter middle national thriving wealthy
No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.
against anybody best strategic
I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.
trying
I have, oddly, two ski houses - trying to sell one.
I come from generations of progressive, atheist Jews.
gets humans mostly power
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
innovative valuable
Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.
amazon destroyed million
Amazon didn't create any jobs. Amazon probably destroyed a million jobs in our economy.
act boy car generation insanity kids last learns seems
I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity when you know what you know about 15-year-old boy behavior. But in 2018, we'll have self-driving cars, and it will be so much better. My son may be the last generation of kids who learns to drive.
highly society unequal
You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.