Nick Hanauer
Seattle-based venture capitalist and longtime advocate for higher minimum wages and anti-monopoly policy, known for his TED Talk warning fellow billionaires about inequality.
Circuit updated July 23, 2026
- Nick Hanauer says Bernie Sanders's 50 percent AI ownership plan is common sense, not socialism
“the whole valuation that AI is predicated on is job disruption, right? You can't you can't get to those numbers unless you're displacing lots of jobs.” 9:56
- Nick Hanauer Comes to Yell About Neoliberalism and He's Not Wrong
“Yeah, the rich people not the not the poor brown people who are Well, I mean” 1:30
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“if people are spending an hour a day on their phone doom scrolling, we're that that is a broadcast. You're broadcasting to our people, so therefore we've got a broadcast license.”
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“the whole valuation that AI is predicated on is job disruption, right? You can't you can't get to those numbers unless you're displacing lots of jobs.”
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“data is a common good and it is a common asset that has been um sequested illegitimately by these companies.”
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“Innovation is always combinatorial. In technology makes itself out of itself.”
Nick Hanauer · The Diary of a CEO -
“Yeah, the rich people not the not the poor brown people who are Well, I mean”
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“States used to have laws that expressly prohibited that.”
Nick Hanauer · The Diary of a CEO
Nick Hanauer says Bernie Sanders's 50 percent AI ownership plan is common sense, not socialism
On The Diary of a CEO, the venture capitalist made the capitalist case for grabbing a public slice of AI wealth before the layoff machine starts printing money.
Nick Hanauer Comes to Yell About Neoliberalism and He's Not Wrong
The venture capitalist and self-described 'pitchfork-avoider' spends an hour telling a table of entrepreneurs that everything they believe about small business is right, and everything they believe about how to get there is wrong.