Nick Hanauer is a rich guy with a conscience. Over the last few years, he’s become the poster boy for plutocratic guilt, urging his fellow 1 percenters to get serious about surging inequality. In ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Austin Williams on Oct 16, 2014 at 1 ...

Seattle billionaire Nick Hanauer knows that his city's experiment with a $15 minimum wage has been a success. In fact, he knew it before the law had even been passed. Economists of all political ...

Nick Hanauer has gone public with another stage of his plan for the US economy. Essentially, raise wages for everyone and she'll be fine. The problem with this is that Hanauer is simply factually ...

The pushback against shareholder value maximization, the idea that public companies primarily exist to serve shareholders, has been part of the business world for years. But for Nick Hanauer, an ...

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer — an early investor in Amazon.com and aQuantive — certainly has strong opinions on economics and politics. And that’s one of the reasons why he was invited to ...

In many ways, Nick Hanauer's family story captures the American Dream. His grandfather and great-uncle fled Nazi Germany and made it to the United States, where they bought a bankrupted pillow factory ...

When venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and political provocateur Nick Hanauer was coming of age in Seattle, he wanted a sports car. His father, however, wouldn’t let him get one. It wasn’t because the ...

The National Journal reports today that TED is refusing to publish a recent talk from megarich venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, which argued that rich people actually don't create jobs, and that ...