Adam Pritzker

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Adam Nicholas Pritzker
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Born (1984-07-17) July 17, 1984 (age 37)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Alma materColumbia University
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forCo-Founder, General Assembly and Assembled Brands
FamilyPritzker family

Adam Pritzker (born July 17, 1984) is an American entrepreneur. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Assembled Brands, a holding company of consumer brands,[1] and was co-founder and chairman of General Assembly, a private school for professional development.[2][3] In 2018, General Assembly was sold to The Adecco Group for over $400 million.[4][5]

Education[]

Pritzker attended Columbia University and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology.[6][7][8] He studied with Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia, and went on to work for him at The Earth Institute.[9]

Career[]

Pritzker co-founded General Assembly in January 2011 with Jake Schwartz, Brad Hargreaves, and Matt Brimer.[10] Pritzker and his partners started the company as a New York coworking space that offered practical classes on technology, design and entrepreneurship.[2] The 20,000 square foot space was modeled after a college campus, according to Pritzker.[2] He served as the chief creative officer, and helped its expansion to eight other locations globally.[11] He was named to the Inc. (magazine) 30 under 30 list,[12] and the Forbes magazine 30 under 30 list[11] for his work at General Assembly. He left his day-to-day job at the business in 2013 but remained chairman until its sale to The Adecco Group.[6][13]

In 2021, he was named a trustee of Columbia University.[14]

Political action[]

In October 2017, Pritzker partnered with Jeffrey Sachs, a development economist at Columbia University, and Daniel Squadron, a former New York state senator, to found Future Now.[15][16] The new group's mission is to promote a set of national policy priorities it terms "America's Goals 2030", and to do so by funding state-level political candidates who are committed to working toward those goals.[16] Based on the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals  – a global list of priorities approved in 2015 by the 193 U.N. members[16] – the organization's policy agenda encompasses seven priorities: good jobs; affordable health care; investing in children; empowering people over special interests; equal opportunity; sustainable infrastructure; and clean air, water, and energy.[15][8]

Personal[]

Pritzker married Sophie McNally in 2016.[17] He is a fourth-generation member of the Pritzker family, son of John Pritzker and grandson of Jay Pritzker.[9][18] His uncle, Thomas Pritzker, is the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, and his aunt, Gigi Pritzker, is a film producer.

References[]

  1. ^ Friedman, Vanessa (June 8, 2016). "Can America Build Its Own LVMH?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Wortham, Jenna (January 24, 2011). "General Assembly Aims to Gather New York Techies". Bits Blog. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  3. ^ Alejandro Cremades (May 26, 2019). "Adam Pritzker On Selling His First Business For $400M And Reinventing How Brands Are Built". Alejandro Cremades. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  4. ^ "Adecco buys General Assembly in $412.5 million deal to boost growth". Reuters. April 16, 2018. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  5. ^ Cremades, Alejandro. "He Sold His First Business For More Than $400 Million And Is Now Reinventing How Brands Are Built". Forbes. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  6. ^ a b Shontell, Alyson (April 25, 2013). "General Assembly Co-Founder Is Leaving To Start A New Company". Business Insider. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  7. ^ "Adam Pritzker '08CC, along with Daniel Squadron and Jeffrey Sachs, Have a New Plan to Fix Our Broken Politics". Columbia Entrepreneurship. October 11, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  8. ^ a b Squadron, Daniel; Pritzker, Adam; Sachs, Jeffrey D. (October 9, 2017). "An Academic, an Entrepreneur, and a Former Politician's New Plan to Fix Our Broken Politics" (opinion). The Daily Beast. thedailybeast.com. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  9. ^ a b Gelles, David (November 5, 2014). "A Pritzker Sets Out With Ideas of Empire". DealBook. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  10. ^ Lloyd, Tim (January 12, 2013). "General Assembly aims to match education to market demands". VentureBeat. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  11. ^ a b Casserly, Meghan. "Adam Pritzker, 28, Cofounder and Chief Creative Officer, General Assembly - pg.23". Forbes. Archived from the original on December 31, 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  12. ^ Fenn, Donna (July 2, 2012). "Where Entrepreneurs Teach & Students Learn Skills". Inc.com. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  13. ^ Hempel, Jessi (October 10, 2013). "The prince of sales". Fortune. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  14. ^ "Adam Pritzker | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
  15. ^ a b Cramer, Ruby (October 8, 2017). "New Group Promises Real Money for Local Candidates Who Commit to Sweeping National Progressive Goals". BuzzFeed. buzzfeed.com. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  16. ^ a b c Wulfhorst, Ellen (October 9, 2017). "New group launched in US to set nation's own long-term goals to fix ills". Thomas Reuters Foundation. reuters.com. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  17. ^ McNally, Anne (October 2016). "Anne McNally's Social-Circuit Diary: October 2016 and More". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  18. ^ "How the next-gen Pritzkers are spending the family fortune". Crain's Chicago Business. June 29, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
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