Jared Polis net worth
Jared Polis Net Worth and Salary: Jared Polis is an American politician, philanthropist and entrepreneur with a net worth of $400 million. Jared is one of the richest politicians in America. He was born on May 12, 1927 in Boulder, Colorado. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Political Science. Jared made his first big fortune as the co-founder of online greeting card company bluemountainarts.com.
His co-founders are his parents. Jared and his parents Old Blue Mountains Art in 1999 [email protected] for $780 million Paid in cash at the height of the dot-com bubble. Polis was also the founder of ProFlowers.com, which he eventually sold to Liberty Media for $500 million. He launched a political career in 2000 when he was elected to the Colorado State Board of Education. An impressive 1.6 million votes were cast in the election. He ended up winning by 90 votes. That same year, he founded the Jared Polis Foundation. The foundation works to improve teacher resource support in terms of technology and community engagement. He was elected to the House of Representatives for Colorado in 2008, and re-elected in 2010. He is one of only a handful of openly gay politicians in Washington. He is also the only gay parent in Congress. In addition to focusing on education, he is also actively involved in online piracy legislation. He is an avid philanthropist and has received many awards for his work. On November 6, 2018, Jared was elected Governor of Colorado. He was the first openly gay man to be elected governor of the United States.
