What is Andrew Yang’s net worth? Who is Andrew Yang’s wife?

Introduction

Entrepreneur and politician based in the US, Andrew Yang, has worked for and founded numerous startups and nonprofits.

Most recently, Andrew became known for his surprising 2020 campaign as a candidate for the Democratic presidential primaries.

Most notable is his advocacy and popularization of a universal basic income (UBI) that serves as compensation for job displacement by automation.

In 2021, he also campaigned for the NYC Democratic mayoral primary but receded after ranking fourth in the initial voting.

Though lately primarily perceived as such by the public, a closer look at Yang’s CV reveals him to be more than a politician but also an innovative polymath.

The Origin Story

Born in 1975 to his Taiwanese immigrant parents, Andrew grew up a county boy in the state of New York and spent most of his educational periods there, except for an excursion to New Hampshire for boarding school.

Though often bullied as a grade-skipping Asian kid in public school, it did not stop him from competing for the world championship as a member of the 1992 national debate team when he was at the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy.

With his father holding a physics PhD, his mother a statistics Master’s degree, it’s unsurprising that Andrew himself went on to earn his Bachelor’s in economics and political sciences from Brown, then a JD from Columbia Law.

But the élite path, which culminated in a six-figure corporate attorney job at Davis Polk & Wardwell in NYC, was not meant for Andrew.