Joe Sanberg Biography – Joe Sanberg Wiki
Joe Sanberg is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is co-founder of Aspiration, Inc., an online banking and investment firm, and an early investor in the meal delivery service Blue Apron. He is also the founder of CalEITC4Me, a California outreach program that helps low-income families claim state and federal earned income tax credits.
He has described that, after college, he went to work on Wall Street and earned enough to feel monetarily secure. However, he has said he was uneasy working in an industry that he said “totally divorced service from profit,” and shifted to investing in start-ups, including the meal delivery outfit Blue Apron and Aspiration.com. He co-founded Aspiration, Inc., an online financial company, with Andrei Cherny in 2013. Aspiration enables customers to choose their own fee levels on checking and investment accounts and offers managed funds that are 100% fossil-fuel-free. Sanberg is a founding investor in Blue Apron, a home meal delivery service, and IVY.com, a “social university”. Sanberg serves on the Board of Governors at the Jefferson Awards Foundation, an organization that engages over a million youth in volunteer programs and public service annually.
He was called “the spark” for his leadership in 2015 toward California launching an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). To support the California EITC, he founded a statewide outreach program called CalEITC4Me that is administered by the Golden State Opportunity Foundation, which conducts research, analysis, public information, and education programs with the aim of creating economic security for Californians. CalEITC4Me helps working families claim the state and federal earned income tax credits (EITC) and helps families get free tax preparation services.
It was reported in 2018 that Sanberg was considering a run for president in 2020 on an anti-poverty platform. He stated that he would support whoever the Democratic nominee is if he did not run. He started traveling to Ohio in April 2019 to test the possibility of a presidential run. Ultimately, on June 1, 2019, at the California Democrats State Convention, Sanberg announced that he would not campaign for the presidency.
With the possibility rising of a 2021 recall election to remove Governor Gavin Newsom, Sanberg attacked the recall as “anti-democratic” but prompted speculation that he might run in such an election. Sanberg is leading an initiative in the 2022 California elections to raise the minimum wage to $18/hour, and organizers have purportedly received more than 1 million signatures. He has said that the idea is “wildly popular,” with over 60% support.
Joe Sanberg Age
His birth name is Joseph N. Sanberg. He was born and brought up in Southern California, United States on July 12, 1979.
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He is a resident of Los Angeles with his fiancée Nicole Lapin, an author, and former CNBC anchor. In 2021, they publicly discussed experiencing a miscarriage in an effort to encourage companies to offer paid early pregnancy loss leave.
Joe Sanberg Parents
He is the son of Soni Rice, his mother.
Joe Sanberg Instagram
His Instagram handle is @joesanberg.
