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Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang (born January 13, 1975) is a U.S. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, entrepreneur, attorney, philanthropist, and founder of Venture for America (VFA). He worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive from 2000 to 2009. After he founded VFA, the Obama administration selected him in 2012 as a "Champion of Change" and in 2015 as a "Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship". In November 2017 Yang launched his campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. His signature policy is what he calls the "Freedom Dividend", a form of Universal Basic Income (UBI) for every American adult over 18. Yang believes UBI is a necessary response to the rapid development of automation, which is increasingly leading to workforce challenges. The other two central elements of his platform are Medicare for All and "human-centered capitalism." Over 100 policy proposals are listed on his campaign website. Early life and education Yang was born in Schenectady, New York, to immigrant...

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April 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM

The AI Bet Just Got Bigger

View this post on the web at [link removed] Last week, Oracle laid off about 30,000 workers, approximately 18% of its global workforce. Simultaneously, Oracle is planning to invest $50 billion in AI infrastructure development this year alone. This is tectonic. Those 30,000 workers cost about $8 …
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April 1, 2026 at 12:01 PM

We Only Look at the Winners

View this post on the web at [link removed] I’m a big Mets fan and am excited for the upcoming season. I think we’re going to have a contending team despite/because of all of the changes. I attended Opening Day. Yes, this feels frivolous. There’s some part of me that is like, “Man, AI is going t…
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March 30, 2026 at 12:03 PM

The Social Media Reckoning

View this post on the web at [link removed] Two landmark legal rulings came out last week, both of which will have massive ramifications for years to come. Last Thursday, a Los Angeles jury ruled that Meta and YouTube were negligent for designing addictive features such as infinite scrolling, au…
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March 23, 2026 at 12:03 PM

What Jobs Are Safe?

View this post on the web at [link removed] Last year, Evelyn bought me 10 sessions with a personal trainer. “Huh, I guess I should take the hint.” I thought, and dutifully reported to get my butt whipped into shape by Aaron, a very pleasant 31-year-old with a degree in physical therapy. During …
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March 16, 2026 at 12:03 PM

Tax the Bots

View this post on the web at [link removed] I was on CNBC last week talking about AI and jobs. I painted a foreboding picture of corporate layoffs that have just kicked off. Indeed, Oracle and Amazon just announced that they would likely cut more than 30,000 workers between them. One of the ancho…
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March 9, 2026 at 12:02 PM

Matt Mahan

View this post on the web at [link removed] “If you have dozens of priorities, you have none. When I took office, I saw this laundry list of things that we said were priorities, none of which we were excelling at. That’s why, when I became mayor, I said we would focus on only a few things: public…
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March 4, 2026 at 1:03 PM

Notes from the Tour

View this post on the web at [link removed] I’m writing this on the plane, in true author fashion, on the way back cross country. It was wonderful seeing so many familiar faces and meeting new people on the book tour. Thank you to Rikki Schlott, Nancy Scola, Rainn Wilson, Kristen Sze, and Jon Spo…
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March 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM

War with Iran

View this post on the web at [link removed] On Saturday, the US and Israel mounted full-scale military strikes on Iran. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of his top military leaders were killed; a meeting of top staff may have been the catalyst for the timing of the strikes. The response ha…
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February 23, 2026 at 1:02 PM

Is College (Still) Worth It?

View this post on the web at [link removed] A friend recently told me that she and her husband sold their house to pay for their daughter attending a private university. I said, “Really?” in a tone that made it seem that I didn’t necessarily agree with the decision. “It was her dream school,” sh…
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February 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM

The End of the Office

View this post on the web at [link removed] I write this filled with sadness. Last week, I wrote about how AI is now replacing white-collar workers in earnest as Claude’s Co-work released plug-ins for legal, financial and marketing functions. Social media is filled with accounts from long-time…
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February 12, 2026 at 2:09 AM

Marie and Andrew Yang talk politics and action around affordability

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  Andrew Yang · [email protected]
February 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM

The AI Meltdown

View this post on the web at [link removed] 12 days ago, one of the biggest stories in tech and business unfolded that will affect us all. On January 30th, the AI Company Anthropic released open-source plugins for its workplace AI offering - Cowork - for legal, finance, sales and marketing. The…
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February 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM

Starting the Campaign

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello! As you may know, I wrote a book called “Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks?” that comes out tomorrow. It’s a more personal and humorous account of my rise and fall and rise again to become Supreme Leader. To get you to want to buy the book, here…
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February 2, 2026 at 1:06 PM

What the Market Wants (or, The Worth of a Person)

View this post on the web at [link removed] I had dinner with a friend recently. He’s a social media influencer – he has tens of thousands of followers on Instagram and a similar number on YouTube. “Man, I need to reinvent myself,” he shared. “My videos aren’t performing as well as they used to.…
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January 27, 2026 at 4:37 PM

The Blowback Begins

View this post on the web at [link removed] You could feel the prevailing public sentiment turn in real time. Outrage over the killing of Alex Pretti reached athletes and influencers that ordinarily might try to steer away from politics. Dissections of the video were everywhere on cable news. Th…
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January 25, 2026 at 3:10 AM

Alex Pretti

View this post on the web at [link removed] Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old American citizen, was shot and killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Alex was an Intensive Care Unit nurse who worked with military veterans in the VA. He was wrestled to the ground by multiple agents and was shot m…
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January 19, 2026 at 1:03 PM

MLK the Futurist

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello, I hope that you’re having a wonderful holiday weekend! It was my birthday last week so I had a nice celebration. This weekend we celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday and legacy. In 2020, I had the privilege of visiting the King Center in Atla…
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January 17, 2026 at 3:07 PM

The Verizon Outage

View this post on the web at [link removed] I hope that your week has been great. I had a wonderful week celebrating my birthday with family and friends. Millions of people lost their Verizon service this week on Wednesday. Why did this happen? “A software issue.” Verizon issued an apology but s…
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January 14, 2026 at 1:02 PM

Swinging and Missing

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello! As you may know, I wrote a book called “Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks?” that comes out February 10th. It’s a more personal and humorous account of my rise and fall and rise again to become the emperor. To get you to want to buy the book, he…
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January 12, 2026 at 1:03 PM

The People of Iran

View this post on the web at [link removed] The most important story in the world right now is the popular uprising in Iran. This past week, tens of thousands of Iranians have begun marching against Iran’s brutally repressive regime. The current theocracy has been in place since 1979, when it de…
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January 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM

Renee Nicole Good

View this post on the web at [link removed] ICE shot and killed a 37-year-old American citizen, Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Renee was in her SUV at an ICE enforcement action and was approached by several armed agents who told her to get out of her car. One agent tried to acces…
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January 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM

10 Predictions for 2026

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello and Happy New Year! This is going to be a big year. I expect 365 whole days. What can we expect in 2026? For the past few years, I’ve been looking into the Yangstradamus crystal ball, and this is no exception. Here are some of the things I see co…
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January 5, 2026 at 1:04 PM

Maduro

View this post on the web at [link removed] Well, Trump decided to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in the dark of night over the weekend. One reason to celebrate is that Maduro’s extraction happened so dramatically with apparently no American casualties. That’s a phenome…
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December 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM

What Matters

View this post on the web at [link removed] Happy New Year’s Eve! Next week I’m going to have predictions for ’26, but right now it’s a bit of reflection on the year that was. 2025 was… a year. For me, it was very good. Everyone stayed healthy. We launched Noble Mobile [ [link removed] ], which …
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December 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Happy Holidays!

View this post on the web at [link removed] Happy Holidays! I hope that you are revved up for a wonderful holiday season with friends and family. I remember as a kid growing up in the ‘burbs getting super excited the first time I spotted holiday lights up at my neighbor’s house. We would trim a …
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December 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM

The Healthcare Debacle

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello, hope that your holiday season is going well. Do you get your health insurance through the ACA Exchanges, otherwise known as Obamacare? If so, there’s a pretty high chance that your premiums are going to surge starting in January. In some extre…
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December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM

Ever True to Brown

View this post on the web at [link removed] My heart was sunken all weekend with the news of the mass shooting at Brown University. 2 students were killed and 9 wounded. I went to Brown, graduating in ’96. I went to class in the Barus and Holley Engineering building where the shooting occurred. …
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December 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM

How It Started

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello! As you may know, I wrote a book called “Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks?” that comes out February 3rd. It’s a more personal and humorous account of my rise and fall and rise again to become the emperor. To get you to want to buy the book, her…
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December 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Netflix Wins the Streaming War

View this post on the web at [link removed] Well, the streaming wars are over, and Netflix won. The announcement came out on Friday that Netflix would be buying Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and content assets, including HBO Max, for a staggering $83 billion. Netflix beat out Paramount Skydanc…
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December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM

The Trump Accounts

View this post on the web at [link removed] Last month, I ran into Michael Dell at a social event in Texas. Someone came up to him and congratulated him on his upcoming huge philanthropic commitment. I asked after Michael left the convo, “What’s he doing?” “Oh, he’s giving billions away to mill…
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December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Pyramids to Columns

View this post on the web at [link removed] Some stats have come out recently that have made me feel terrible for recent college graduates. According to Fortune [ [link removed] ], only 12% of current college seniors secure a full-time job by graduation, versus 40% for earlier generations. Americ…
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November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Happy Thanksgiving!

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! I hope that you are all set to have a wonderful holiday. My mom went to heroic lengths to host Thanksgiving for us every year growing up. Perhaps because we were immigrants, she took extra steps to commemo…
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November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Meta’s Shame

View this post on the web at [link removed] In a huge revelation this week, a federal court unsealed a brief filed by plaintiffs in a major lawsuit against social media companies, most prominently Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads. The details [ [link removed] ] of this filing wer…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Trump on the Wane

View this post on the web at [link removed] Well, Trump’s hold on the Republican Party loosened a lot last week, as hundreds of congressmen voted to release the Epstein Files over his objections. It wasn’t just that vote. The November elections were a bad look for Republicans, signaling that th…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM

Party Magic

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello, hope that you are doing great! Last week, Offline [ [link removed] ] went to Brooklyn, Chicago, SF and Los Angeles. We were throwing phone-free afterparties for the Pivot Podcast Tour with Scott Galloway; yes, I traipsed around the country hosti…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM

“Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks?”

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello, I’ve got a medium-sized announcement! I have a new book coming out on February 3rd called, “Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks? And Other True Stories of Staggering Depth.” Yes, for real. It’s a humorous inside account of my personal journey, st…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM

The End of the Shutdown

View this post on the web at [link removed] Well the shutdown is substantially over as 8 Democratic Senators voted to reopen the government on Sunday. They were promised a vote on Obamacare subsidies and that all fired federal workers would be rehired with back pay. Just about every Democrat has…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM

The Upgrade Cycle

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello, I hope the fall is going well for you. I have a question: have you bought an iPhone 17? I haven’t, despite seeing the deluge of advertising like everyone else and being able to afford it (not a given). There’s a giant Apple billboard near my ap…
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November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM

Mayor Mamdani

View this post on the web at [link removed] Zohran Mamdani won the Mayor’s race last night and is now the Mayor-Elect of New York City. Despite his historic win, the hard part in all likelihood lies ahead. I wrote this when he won the primary this summer: Last week, Zohran Mamdani posted a resou…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM

The Shutdown

View this post on the web at [link removed] Thanks for reading this newsletter. I ordinarily write about what’s on my mind with an eye toward what’s happening out there. So what’s happening out there? Well, there’s a federal shutdown on that is cutting off food stamps to tens of millions of Amer…
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October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM

The Noble Round

View this post on the web at [link removed] “You guys should totally do a community investment round for Noble Mobile.” This text came from Jonny Price, President of Wefunder and a good friend, a few weeks back. I read it and thought, “Gosh, he’s right.” It wasn’t appealing back when we were pr…
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October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM

The Ultimate Game of Chicken

View this post on the web at [link removed] How will the shutdown end? The federal government shutdown is now entering its 4th week. It started on October 1st and as of this writing there’s little optimism. The record for a shutdown – set during the first Trump administration – is 35 days, which…
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October 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM

So . . . is AI a Bubble?

View this post on the web at [link removed] Is AI a bubble? I’ve been seeing that question a lot lately. From Andrew Ross Sorkin to Derek Thompson to Hank Green, everyone seems to be engaging on this topic. Sorkin is likening this period to that before the crash of 1929, which is the subject of h…
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October 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM

The Science of Smartphones

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello, I hope that you’re doing great. As you know, I’m on social media a lot, which means I’m also on my phone [ [link removed] ] a lot. I’ve noticed that it’s not great for my mental health or attention; after a while I feel distracted and have a har…
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October 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM

The Depletion of Hollywood

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello, I hope the Fall is good on your end. I grew up in the 80s as a big aficionado of American culture and movies. I remember seeing “Return of the Jedi” with my father in theatres, and the first “Karate Kid” is emblazoned in my mind right down to th…
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October 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM

Back on the Grind

View this post on the web at [link removed] It’s been 22 days since Noble Mobile [ [link removed] ] was announced to the world, and the reception has been awesome. People love the idea of logging off a little bit and getting paid for it. It’s been a while since I was a startup CEO. It feels good…
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October 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM

Passion and Money

View this post on the web at [link removed] “Non-profits run on two things: passion and money.” A friend said that to me years ago, when I was the CEO of Venture for America, an entrepreneurship training org. I was continuously fundraising, which is perhaps your main job when you start and run a…
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October 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM

The 2025 Shutdown

View this post on the web at [link removed] Well, the federal government is now shutting down because Congress couldn’t come to a deal to extend funding. How long this will last is anyone’s guess. The last shutdown in 2018 lasted a record 35 days and cost the economy at least $3 billion. Several …
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September 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM

How to Do Lots of Good

View this post on the web at [link removed] Last week, I wrote [ [link removed] ] about how being nice and generous to the people around you might be the best thing you can do in the face of depressing headlines. It keeps you positive. “Okay, that’s all well and good Yang. But I want to solve BI…
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September 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM

What You Can Do

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hello and hope the Fall is off to a great start for you and yours. Here’s what I hear from friends just about every day: “Hey Yang, I’m despondent about the state of things. What can I do to make things better?” These are folks who are often saddened …
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