Education
University of Washington.
University of Washington.
Hanauer"s family owns Pacific Coast Feather Company, a down pillow, feather bed, and high-end bedding products manufacturer that was originally founded in 1884 in Germany, but currently headquartered in Seattle. While Hanauer never held an executive position within the company, he began working at the company at 13. Hanauer founded Museum Quality Framing, which is a chain of custom frame stores in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, in 1988.
Hanauer is also the owner of a chain of pizza stores called Mad Pizza.
As an early investor in aQuantive, an online based advertising company, Hanauer turned a substantial profit when the company went public in 2000 and again when Microsoft purchased the company in 2007. Hanauer also began working on getting a Major League Soccer team in Seattle.
The league passed over Seattle in 2004, choosing instead to expand to better prepared Salt Lake City. Hanauer invested $250,000 for a 15 percent stake in an English soccer team, Cambridge United Football Club, in May 2007.
Following the Master of Library Science All Star game in July 2007, Hanauer was introduced to Hollywood executive, director, and film producer Joe Roth by Master of Library Science director Don Garber.
The two men hit it off and over the next few weeks, Roth made several visits to Seattle to take in a few Sounders games and get to know Hanauer better. In 2005, Hanauer founded business incubator and venture capital company Curious Office Partners. The company invests in small internet startup companies and offers them office space in Pioneer Square and invests between United States$10,000 and $250,000 in the startups.
Hanauer"s interest in soccer began at the age of 3, he saw his first NASL Sounders game at the age of 8, and was one of only two freshmen to make the soccer team for Mercer Island High School.
While Hanauer did not make the team as a sophomore, he continued to play soccer, first on an intramural team while attending University of Washington and currently on two teams in the Greater Seattle Soccer League.