Редактирование: Andrew Yang (раздел)

== Career ==
In 1999, after graduating from Columbia Law School, Yang began his career as a corporate attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He left the firm in 2000 to launch Stargiving.com, a startup that worked to support celebrity-affiliated philanthropy.<ref>[https://www.inc.com/articles/201107/andrew-yang-venture-for-america.html Venture for America: The 'Teach for America' for Entrepreneurs]</ref> Stargiving.com raised capital from investors but later folded in 2001. Afterward, Yang joined a healthcare software startup, MMF Systems, Inc., as its Vice President and third hire.

=== Manhattan Prep ===
After working in the healthcare industry for four years, Yang left MMF Systems to join friend Zeke Vanderhoek at a small test preparation company, Manhattan Prep. In 2006, Vanderhoek asked Yang to take over as CEO. While he was CEO of Manhattan Prep, the company primarily provided Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) test preparation. The company expanded from five to 69 locations and was eventually acquired by Kaplan, Inc., in December 2009. Yang served as the company's president through 2011.<ref>[http://stevecheney.com/the-evolution-of-education-kaplan-acquires-ma  The Evolution of Education – Kaplan acquires Manhattan GMAT]</ref>

=== Venture for America (VFA) ===
Following the acquisition of Manhattan Prep, Yang began to conceive his new company, [[Venture for America]], a nonprofit he founded in 2011<ref name=":1" /> with the mission "to create economic opportunity in American cities by mobilizing the next generation of entrepreneurs and equipping them with the skills and resources they need to create jobs."<ref>[https://ventureforamerica.org/about-us/our-mission-approach/|title=Our Mission & Approach - Venture for America]</ref>

The company's strategy was to recruit the nation's top college graduates into a two-year fellowship program in which they would work for and apprentice at promising startups in developing cities across the United States. Yang's book ''Smart People Should Build Things'' argues that the top universities in the country cherry-pick the smartest kids out of small towns and funnel them into the same corporate jobs in the same big cities.<ref>[https://tech.co/book-5-minutes-smart-people-build-things-2014-09 A Book in 5 Minutes: Smart People Should Build Things]</ref> Venture for America's goal is to help distribute that talent around the country and incentivize entrepreneurship for economic growth. ''Generation Startup'', a documentary about Venture for America co-directed by Academy Award winner Cynthia Wade and Cheryl Miller Houser, was released in 2016.<ref>[http://www.generationstartupthefilm.com/ GENERATION STARTUP]</ref>

In the summer of 2017, Andrew Yang stepped down as CEO of the company.