jack hidary
jack hidary, independent candidate for nyc mayor. (hidaryfornyc. com) jack hidary, independent candidate for nyc mayor. (hidaryfornyc. com )
in wednesday’s eye on politics segment, wcbs 880’s steve scott spoke with independent candidate jack hidary .
tech multimillionaire jack hidary tells david freedlander he has a real chance of winning in new york .
jack was born in the ocean parkway sephardic community near coney island. jack’s great - grandparents came to ellis island as immigrants, living in the lower east side tenements. jack’s great - grandfather, moses hidary, worked as both a barber and teacher .
the foundation’s work on cancer will focus on the use of emerging tools such as genomic sequencing in the fight against cancer. this study with the mra will be supported by members of the hidary family including david and aimee hidary, jack hidary, murray hidary, richard and esther hidary, and michael and sarah hidary .
homecrest product and dot - com millionaire jack hidary is entering the crowded field of new york city' s mayoral race, and wagering some of the big bucks he earned through job seach site dice. com. (courtesy jack hidary )
jack hidary argues that bonuses should be structured to incentivize innovation, rather than just fulfilling day - to - day activities .
the primary aim of the jack d. hidary foundation is to catalyze scalable, self - sustaining programs in education and economic development .
in his current role, jack focuses on the marketplace scaling of x lab innovations .
jack d. hidary built his career as an entrepreneur and has been dedicated to public service in education, sustainable energy and economic growth .
jack’s father, david hidary, joined the family business and is a very active community member dedicated to education and social services. jack’s father was president of the local school for 20 years. jack’s mother is head of the orange dance program, a non - profit program for girls in memory of mariel hidary. the family shared a two - family home with their uncle and aunt upstairs before moving to their own house near ps 215 where jack’s father had attended school .
newer to the race is jack hidary, the tech tycoon behind career site urltoken and solar energy firm samba energy. hidary announced his candidacy in july on his own jobs and education party line .
jack is a regular guest on business and tech channels such as bloomberg, cnbc and cnn .
jack now serves as senior advisor to x labs, the advanced innovation lab of alphabet / google .
foxbusiness. com’s gabrielle karol interviews jack hidary, independent candidate for nyc mayor, on life as a serial entrepreneur and wanting to manage the big apple’s economy .
jack was born in the ocean parkway sephardic community near coney island. jack’s great - grandparents came to ellis island as immigrants, living in the lower east side tenements. jack’s great - grandfather, moses hidary, worked as both a barber and teacher. in the 1920’s and 30’s jack’s grandfather jack hidary was peddling tablecloths and together with his son moe founded the family business that is seventy years old and continues to thrive in the garment district. his grandfather moved the family to brooklyn and co - founded the community that continues to thrive there today. jack was born at brookdale hospital in brownsville and he and his parents spent his first year living in his grandmother’s house. the family then shared a two - family home with their uncle and aunt before moving to their own house near ps 215 where jack’s father had attended school. jack grew up with strong role models and small business owners in a community where everyone had an open door .
jack hidary at the 65th annual artists and writers celebrity softball game held in east hampton on saturday. (aug. 17, 2013) photo credit: randee daddona
one of tech industry multimillionaire jack hidary' s biggest hurdles in his quest to become mayor of new york city is playfully acknowledged on his campaign t - shirts .
tech mogul jack d. hidary “a kind of bloomberg 2. 0: socially progressive, fiscally reserved, and digitally savvy. ” and now that he’s ready to
in 1998, jack and his brother murray took their company public when jack was 30 years old. from the tenements of the lower east side to the floor of the stock exchange is only a few minutes away and yet connects ninety years of the hidary family history .
election eve, midnight - the world champ judah friedlander and jack hidary, taking it to the streets. thank you to curry in a hurry for hosting us! urltoken
the hidary family’s interest in acral melanoma was spurred by the discovery and successful treatment of the family’s patriarch, david j. hidary .
he may not be front - page news, but former tech entrepreneur jack hidary says he' s got a plan to make new york city the world' s leading tech center .
“jack hidary’s candidacy puts the leadership of the sephardic community in a bind, ” said one sephardic communal insider, who asked not to be identified to protect ongoing relationships. “while the sophisticated contingent of the leadership understands that endorsing jack hidary is a futile effort, some other powerful and influential community leaders… see a sephardic candidate as a possibly powerful representative of the community. ”
in 1995, established earthweb a company dedicated to the needs of tech professionals. jack co - founded the company with murray hidary and nova spivack. jack led the company from its inception through three rounds of investment and then its ipo. under jack’s leadership, earthweb acquired dice. com, a website that connects users with jobs, and other sites dedicated to the needs of it professionals. as chairman and ceo of the public company, jack continued to grow the company and engage with shareholders, customers and analysts. (nyse: dhx )
jack is the oldest of four brothers and a sister, mariel hidary, who was tragically killed at the age of 23 in a traffic accident in 2006. in jack’s community, it’s family first: the first - born is trained to be a leader and take care of the family. surrounded by strong role models, jack learned the importance of public service. he saw best practices and started bringing them to other communities .
a screenshot from jack hidary’s blog shows him with then - chancellor joel klein at east side community high school in 2010 during the kickoff of national lab day, a science program he launched. hidary is exploring the possibility of running for mayor as an independent .
jack hidary filed papers this week with the city’s campaign finance board signaling an intention to receive city matching funds in a political campaign. he has also formed a political action committee, hidary for nyc inc, and someone registered the url urltoken just days ago .
in 1995, jack followed in his family’s entrepreneurial footsteps and established earthweb a company dedicated to the needs of tech professionals. jack co - founded the company with his brother murray hidary and friend nova spivack. jack led the company from its inception through three rounds of investment and then its ipo on nasdaq. under jack’s leadership, earthweb acquired dice. com, a website that connects users with jobs, and other sites dedicated to the needs of it professionals. as chairman and ceo of the public company, jack continued to grow the company and engage with shareholders, customers and analysts. after running the public company for more than three years, jack handed off to a new ceo. the team later restructured the company, took it private and then took it public on the nyse as dice holdings .
jack hidary - on october 4, 2011, jack hidary, the well known energy entreprenaur spoke to our new york clean energy forum on' the gamechanger: china’s unstoppable clean energy exports'. combining his considerable expertise in finance, science, technology, jack' s speech focused on china' s master business plan every five years. that plan, coupled with the enormity of china’s population, landmass, and financial resources, puts a footprint on every country and every major business in this global economy .
in the 1920’s and 30’s jack’s grandfather jack hidary was peddling tablecloths and together with his son moe founded the family business that is seventy years old and continues to thrive in the garment district. his grandfather moved the family to brooklyn and co - founded the community that continues to thrive there today. jack was born at brookdale hospital in brownsville and he and his parents spent his first year living in his grandmother’s house. the family then shared a two - family home with their uncle and aunt before moving to their own house near ps 215 where jack’s father had attended school. jack grew up with strong role models and small business owners in a community where everyone had an open door .
jack hidary, a senior adviser at google x labs and also founder and chairman of us - based samba energy, speaking at emtech india 2016 in new delhi. photo: ramesh pathania / mint
jack hidary, a well - connected tech millionaire, thinks he has a shot at being elected mayor of new york city. but his dark horse quest may tear brooklyn’s syrian jewish community in two .
jack hidary built his career as an entrepreneur in the finance and technology sectors and is currently focused on clean energy technology and policy. he co - founded vista research in 2001 as an independent financial research company serving institutional investors. jack sold vista to the standard & poor' s division of mcgraw - hill in april of 2005 .
an unknown, dot - com millionaire is jumping into the already packed mayor' s race. homecrest native jack hidary is running as an independent, following a career path similar to his idol mike bloomberg .
running on his own ticket also puts hidary at a disadvantage, says miringoff .
performed by: ethel & murray hidary at the crest theater, los angeles .
loeser distanced himself from hidary today. “i’ve offered my ideas to several candidates running for mayor and several have taken me up on them, ” he said. “jack is a great person, but i am not working for him. ”
he is also a philanthropist. according to the website of his foundation, called the jack d. hidary foundation, begun in 2001, his philanthropy aims “to catalyze scalable, self - sustaining programs in clean energy and economic development. ”
ask members of new york city’s political class about what they think of jack hidary, and the response is usually an uncomfortable silence, followed by a bit of fumbling, as if they were getting hit with a pop quiz they hadn’t prepared for .
in 2001 hidary co - founded vista research with his brother jack hidary. the firm pioneered the field of expert network research providers, catering to top - tier investment funds. vista research provides hedge fund and asset managers with access to an extensive network of experts in industries including technology, media, telecommunications, energy, aerospace and healthcare .
on some issues facing the next mayor, hidary' s views are not fully formed .
hidary said his entrepreneurship has given him the opportunity to learn about job creation and education .
jack d. hidary, a wealthy and well - connected technology executive, has lingered around the edges of the new york city mayor’s race for weeks, quietly talking up the possibility of a bloomberg - style bid that seemed quixotic and half - baked .
mr. hidary is the executive vice president of earthweb, a business portal for the information and technology industries, which he co - founded in 1994 with his older brother, jack, who is chief executive officer. as a student at columbia university, jack hidary had developed a computer network, columbianet. later, when he was working at the national institutes of health, he talked with little brother murray about the rwandan refugees. they decided to use the internet to publicize the refugees’ plight and created reliefnet. newsweek wrote them up. “we realized this was the future, ” said murray hidary .
though he lives in manhattan and doesn’t attend synagogue regularly, hidary’s syrian roots run deep. his father, david hidary, is a powerful community leader who, with his brothers, runs m. hidary & co. inc. , a privately held apparel firm. a cousin runs hidrock realty, a real estate investment firm. hidary’s brother, rabbi richard hidary, was recently hired as the distinguished rabbinic fellow of congregation shearith israel, a prominent sephardic synagogue in manhattan .
hidary’s strategy for attracting investment in technology companies and growing businesses is to reduce taxes on investments .
the brooklyn - born hidary attended columbia university before launching a successful website for job - seekers .
“jack represents new ideas and new technology — these are the frontiers of the economy and what nyc needs to excel in to create jobs, improve education, and manage the city in a complex world, ” said nova spivack, a former business partner who has known hidary for nearly two decades. “jack also cares deeply about education, the environment and job growth. i think he has the right combination of innovation and concern for the little guy that nyc needs. where other candidates represent big money, jack is an independent who believes in the best ideas, regardless of whose ideas they are. ”
jack serves on several boards including bt global services and trickle up. a frequent keynote speaker, he has presented at venues including the business schools of yale and columbia .
the fast - talking hidary rattled off his accomplishments and ideas - - and asked questions, too. quinn said he was surprised that hidary wanted his advice on
how to attract younger voters .
hidary attended new york university (nyu) between 1989 and 1993 and majored in music and composition .
daily news: the mayor' s race is already overcrowded. what makes you stand out? jack hidary: i am the best candidate for the job. i am the only candidate who combines business experience, building companies and creating jobs along with 15 years of public service .
jack hidary is a very nice man who speaks in complete sentences and seems bright enough. he also has absolutely no qualifications whatsoever to be mayor of new york city. well, no qualifications other than the fact that he himself is very rich and also has lots of very rich friends .
murray hidary left the company in january 2001, but continued to serve on the board through april 2002 .
murray hidary and jack hidary founded iamplify in 2005. iamplify is a web - based content publisher and syndication network for professionals in a broad range of fields. the site features simple tools for use by specialists to distribute their media. users range from individuals to large corporations. iamplify has established prominent partnerships with bloomberg, david allen, yoga journal, marianne williamson, condé nast’s golf digest, and eckhart tolle .
both catsimatidis and hidary court comparisons to mayor bloomberg, generally praising the administration of the often - controversial politician .
hidary only announced his candidacy on wednesday but said he is well - known in some communities across the city .
if he wins, then, hidary’s will be the first mayoralty won on the strength of malian taxi drivers .
hidary, however, said that he sees his community’s insularity as more or less a thing of the past .
you are invited to attend a musical evening with murray hidary and the mindtravel orchestra with remarks by dr. dean ornish
in 2006 nyu awarded murray hidary the distinguished service award. the text of his commencement acceptance speech is available here .
hidary’s invisibility is partly by design, said joe trippi, the former howard dean consigliere who is advising the campaign .
in addition, the hidary foundation has funded robotics teams at various schools and have arranged for their participation in us first .
hidary did not respond to an emailed inquiry sent to a spokesman about his position on the nypd’s controversial muslim surveillance program .
the key distinguishing fact between our opponents on the republican side, though they do share similarities in the business world, is that they don' t have the nonprofit experience that jack does ,
joseph said .
some in the syrian community have given early support to hidary’s candidacy. a brunch fundraiser held in the syrian summer retreat in deal, n. j. , at a seaside bungalow of real estate investor joe cayre, raised $ 350, 000, according to hidary. that represents three - quarters of the $ 450, 000 hidary said that his campaign has brought in .
dn: you are a brooklyn boy from ocean parkway near avenue s. how have your roots helped to shape your mayoral goals? jh: growing up in a community with immigrants, the people around me all served as role models. my grandfather, jack hidary, would meet with people who are struggling and give them no - interest loans .
murray hidary (born august 30, 1971 in brooklyn, new york) is a composer, fine art photographer and entrepreneur .
hidary paints himself as a pro - business candidate, comparing himself to billionaire michael bloomberg, the incumbent mayor, whom he says he admires. in his campaign announcement media blitz, hidary has touted his ties to the tech community and his entrepreneurial experience .
“‘you never really achieve manhood until you’re successful in business’ is the hidary family motto, ” said mr. hidary. raised in what he described as a “very closed - off community” near coney island, in a large orthodox household, the hidary children are expected to have jewish spouses. but mr. hidary said that, for him, religion was not a priority. “mom, please look away, ” he joked. people call him daily to fix him up; he’s declared a moratorium on blind dates .
what: a night of wonderful music featuring murray hidary, the world - class mindtravel orchestra, and remarks by dr. dean ornish
hidary launched what is now urltoken in 1995 and it was at one point a publicly traded company, according to his official bio .
back home in brooklyn, however, the hidary family are leaders in one of new york’s most insular and politically conservative ethnic enclaves .
jack is the founder and chairman of samba energy, a leading marketplace for commercial solar projects and financing. samba’s marketplace has driven down the cost of commercial solar and thus increased the roi for companies using the market for their solar programs .
in 2009 murray hidary re - entered the expert network industry with his most recent endeavor: primary insight. the hidary group backed a management buyout of primary insight from jp morgan led by former colleagues, david derose and leighton thomas. jp morgan retains a minority interest .
washington - - (business wire) - - the melanoma research alliance (mra), the leading private funder of melanoma research, and the hidary foundation, the philanthropic arm of technology entrepreneur jack hidary and his family, today announced a new research program with researchers at five institutions comprising a groundbreaking study of the genetics of acral melanoma. two team science awards will fund new work at kaiser permanente research institute, memorial sloan - kettering cancer center, translational genomics research institute (tgen), university of california san francisco (ucsf) and vanderbilt university. the awards total $ 1 million and are jointly awarded by the mra and the hidary foundation .
“there is a clear message from the voters: they are not satisfied with the current set of choices, ” mr. hidary said .
hidary, like bloomberg in 2001, bills himself as an alternative to career politicians. he envisions his mayoralty as a sequel to bloomberg .
and so when he approaches some of the major issues facing the city, hidary can come across like bloomberg, with a few caveats .
in new york city, he was a leading proponent of switching over the taxi fleet to high mileage hybrids. jack serves as chairman of smarttransportation. org, a non - profit dedicated to promoting clean energy and transportation policy in the us .
one candidate who also might bring more technology discussion to the debates is technology entrepreneur jack hidary, an independent candidate. though he has run some online and tv ads, he wrote in an e - mail to supporters friday that
despite our requests, the polling firms have not included us in their polls. and without being in the polls, we cannot enter the debates .
jack is the co - founder and chairman of samba energy, a leading marketplace for commercial solar projects and financing. samba’s marketplace has driven down the cost of commercial solar and thus increased the roi for companies using the market for their solar programs .
the scf, however, has not backed the homegrown candidate. “jack hidary comes from a very well respected family whose work on behalf of our community is immeasurable and appreciated, ” executive director avi spitzer wrote in an emailed statement. “ [ w ] e have not yet taken a position in the mayor’s race. currently, we are holding off on any endorsements until early september. ”
jack advocated for the use of high - mileage vehicles as new york city taxicabs in 2005 with david yassky. david was a nyc council member at the time and today is the chairman of the tlc. jack and david successfully engaged drivers who are owner - operators who now save thousands of dollars each year driving high - mpg cars as well as leading fleet owners. today, the majority of the 13, 500 taxis are high - mpg vehicles in nyc helping these small businesses generate more income .
hidary is a member of several philanthropic boards. his continued love of music led him to ethel, a contemporary “postclassical” string quartet, for whom he now serves as chairman of the board. ethel has also performed original works by murray hidary including spinning still in 2006 and his piano quintet in 2015. additionally, hidary is a board member for four way books, a publisher of poetry and short fiction by both emerging and established writers .
the political strategist joe trippi, who oversaw howard dean’s democratic run for the white house, will be on mr. hidary' s campaign team .
“it makes it much more difficult for hidary to make his message, if you already have another prominent businessman in the race, ” he explains .
i like his green taxi initiative ,
quinn said. in 2005, hidary created an advocacy group to successfully lobby to allow hybrid taxicabs .
hidary made big bucks off his job - search website, dice. com, and now heads an eponymous foundation focused on educating kids about technology .
hidary’s work is also part of art pic’s collection of available pieces in los angeles, ca. through art pic, hidary’s photographs have been featured in movies and television including fox’s house, cbs’s numbers and nbc’s joey, and films such as my best friend’s girl and unhitched. hidary’s work also appeared in a revlon advertisement and a nikon television ad campaign featuring ashton kutcher, as well as the flagship ralph lauren store in new york, ny .
unlike all the democratic primary candidates, hidary said that he supports publicly funded vouchers to fund private religious school tuitions, a position popular with orthodox jews that is dismissed as impractical by most orthodox advocates. hidary said that any voucher system he backed would require that schools receiving voucher funds allow unionized teachers .
committed to community and philanthropic causes, jack has received several industry and community awards as well as being recognized as a global leader of tomorrow at the world economic forum, davos. he is also a member of the council on foreign relations and the clinton global initiative .
mr. hidary, who played piano and violin as a child, recounted a conversation with the jazz legend herbie hancock, whose support he is courting .
on tues. , sept. 3, my artsedtechnyc meetup group held its monthly gathering, hosted by the centre for social innovation in new york city. tech entrepreneur and independent nyc mayoral candidate jack hidary was the guest, and about 40 people representing the arts, education and technology sectors gathered to listen to an extensive, hourlong, up - close - and - personal conversation with hidary, moderated by yours truly. we covered, among other things, how the next mayor could fund the arts more effectively and, equally important, how to make our school system more fair and innovative .
he also took a shot at hidary heading to crowdfunding site crowdtilt to raise $ 50, 000 to open his campaign office (a goal he surpassed) .
hidary said his time is now .
we' re in it to win it, so i' ll just focus right now on this race .
hidary is a senior adviser at google x labs and also founder and chairman of us - based samba energy, a marketplace for commercial solar projects and financing .
“i said, ‘my commitment to you, herbie, is to bring jazz and music to every school in new york city, ’ ” mr. hidary recalled .
stu loeser, who resigned as bloomberg’s press secretary last year and now works as an independent consultant, has advised hidary about his bid, according to a source .
hidary also stands out as a longtime evangelist of high - tech. at columbia university, where he studied philosophy and neuroscience, hidary partnered with a dean to create columbianet, a campuswide intranet, years before the internet became a mass medium. he papered the campus with fliers that read ,
get email. it works .
murray hidary began his business career in 1994 at the age of 23 when he co - founded earthweb with his older brother, jack hidary, and nova spivack. while earthweb was one of the first internet consulting companies, it shifted focus in 1997 when tristan louis was brought in to turn the company into an it information portal called developer. com. earthweb' s initial public offering on november 11, 1998 closed at us $ 48. 69 per share, up 247. 8% from its opening price of $ 14. at the time, earthweb' s first - day return was among the largest in nasdaq history .
“we hit 1, 000 - donor mark very, very quickly – probably in record time, ” says hidary. “we have a tremendously broad base supporting us. ”
what i want to do is build on mike bloomberg' s success, but take it on a new direction, make it my own ,
hidary said .
on an august sunday, hidary marched in the dominican day parade and ran from curb to curb, chatting with revelers in the spanish he learned from his colombian mother .
hidary frequently cites his childhood in the ocean parkway section of brooklyn, near coney island, to emphasize his focus on creating jobs and small businesses in the four outer boroughs .
hidary recorded his first symphony in st. petersburg, russia in 2004. entitled motion, it was performed by the st. petersburg philharmonic and conducted by paul alan levi .
both he and hidary point to google as the brightest star in the growing new york tech space; the latter saying he intends to bring “the next 50 googles” to silicon alley .
hidary is, by all accounts, an underdog in this campaign. he entered the race late as an independent candidate, running against frontrunners like christine quinn and anthony weiner, who are regularly making national news (whether they mean to or not). but hidary insists he has one advantage no other candidate has: a background as a successful tech entrepreneur .
hidary voiced his opposition for an nypd inspector general, but said the city needs to do a better job of fostering strong relations between the police and communities all across the city .
through it all, hidary has largely kept out of sight. when the daily beast asked last week if the candidate was holding any public events, the answer was “no. ”
in jack hidary’s world, millionaires and technology and data and stuff can make these fundamental conflicts vanish in a cloud of techocratic awesomeness. “when i’m mayor, ” he said at a penthouse fundraiser, “everyone gets a pair of google glasses! ” his policy — especially on education — is a triumph of rich - people - and - technology - can - fix your problems - ism. no mention of anyone having to pay more or get less, just lots of talk about better management and technology .
“genetic sequencing has decreased significantly in cost and time and can now be used as a critical tool to investigate cancer, and based on our experiences in technology, we believe that whole exome and whole genome sequencing of larger sets of patients may be key to new breakthroughs in the fight against cancer, ” said jack hidary, chairman of the hidary foundation. “our partnership with the melanoma research alliance will advance this important work on melanoma. the key to genomic studies is not just sequencing, but the analysis of the data. these teams will focus on unraveling the genetic signature of this cancer, and this will extend their work to other cancers as we collectively build greater genomic capabilities. ”
i caught up with hidary after the event to talk more about his start - up days and why he believes entrepreneurship is such a crucial part of new york city' s future .
hidary partnered with co - founder robert etropolsky, who is the entrepreneur that built fashion brand nanushka. givme is a private, location - based, photo - sharing app for friends .
jack studied philosophy and neuroscience at columbia university and was then awarded a stanley fellowship in clinical neuroscience at the national institutes of health (nih). under the fellowship, he conducted research in functional neuroimaging using techniques such as positron emission tomography (pet) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) to study brain and disease states .
but the digital - friendly hidary, who keeps his own typepad blog and has written for the huffington post, says he turned to crowdfunding to demonstrate the “wide support” he’s received from voters .
hidary is financing his bid partly with his own fortune, whose size he would not disclose. he has collected enough donations to qualify for the city' s matching funds program, his team said. his most recent finance board filings showed $ 432, 118 in contributions, with donors ranging from homemakers and students to financiers. hidary' s large extended family also chipped in .
still, hidary’s passions for business development, education reform, and the technology sector would make him an attractive candidate for people who believe bloomberg has been a strong leader for new york city .
jack has been particularly involved in issues of energy and transportation. he is chairman and co - founder of the freedom prize foundation, which provides monetary prizes to cities, schools and other entities that can most reduce their petroleum use. the freedom prizes were mandated by congress in the energy policy act of 2005 (title x: 1008) .
as untrue as that message is, it’s present in other elements of our daily culture. for example: teach for america’s entire founding principle is that kids from elite colleges with five weeks training are de facto better teachers than people with years’ experience in difficult classrooms. the clinton global initiative is entirely based on the idea that rich western people can save poor people of color from themselves by throwing money at them and telling them how to fix their lives. jack hidary’s educational policy is that poor kids aren’t learning because they don’t have ipads .
with pressure on the publishing industry mounting hidary was one of the first to envision taking readers “beyond the book, ” and provide a platform for authors to forge a direct relationship with their audience .
“i’ve been speaking in every major [ syrian ] synagogue, ” hidary said. “the support has been great. the number of people across the board that have supported us has been tremendous. ”
jack studied philosophy and neuroscience at columbia university and was awarded a stanley fellowship in clinical neuroscience at the national institutes of health (nih) prior to his graduation. under the fellowship, he conducted research in functional neuroimaging using techniques such as positron emission tomography (pet) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) to study brain and disease states .
“this partnership with the hidary foundation underscores the need for further research into melanoma, and especially melanoma subtypes such as acral melanoma, in order to develop more effective treatment options for all melanoma patients. ”
with new york city facing an 8. 4% unemployment rate in july, both hidary and catsimatidis argue that their backgrounds in business make them the candidate most capable of bringing jobs to the big apple .
bloomberg spent $ 74 million for a 2001 victory as a republican. hidary is running on a ballot line he created, the jobs and education party, and his ad blitz will be far less extensive .
“i think that’s changing, ” hidary said. “the community now is really engaging in a very public way. ” he noted that syrian jews often cooperate with real estate industry publications like the real deal .
after reliefnet the hidary brothers started earthweb, which built web - sites for the metropolitan museum of art and other institutions eager to establish an on - line presence. mr. hidary describes earthnet as “the leading business - to - business portal for the it world”. the company does a lot of everything: providing content, hosting on - line community forums, e - commerce. in 1998 it went public .
hidary intends to run for mayor as an independent, according to three sources with knowledge of the bid. his entry would shake up a political race in which bloomberg’s staunchest supporters have found few inspiring candidates .
“well, for example, the community of malians in harlem, ” he said. “we engage with them because many of them are taxi drivers. we have a natural affinity because of my work on taxis. they recognize me and say, ‘jack, you are the one who helped us save $ 6, 000 a year, every year, since 2005. ”
campaign volunteer jesus salce, 55, of woodside, queens, said he doubted hidary could actually win in november ,
but for the future, it' s good for him to be out there .
“i haven’t had a steady girlfriend for a number of years, ” said mr. hidary “part of being a hopeless romantic makes it more difficult to find that. you’re always dreaming of that perfect person. ”
jack studied philosophy and neuroscience at columbia university and was awarded a stanley fellowship in clinical neuroscience at the national institutes of health (nih). under the fellowship, he conducted research on the use of neural networks to model and analyze the data in functional neuroimaging using techniques such as positron emission tomography (pet) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) to study brain states .
afterward, he sought out potential supporters outside a temple of tech, the fifth avenue apple store. hidary made a lengthy pitch to frederick quinn, 23, of the upper east side, a recent college graduate .
“there’s been a focus by the administration on a few corridors in manhattan and downtown brooklyn. coming from the outer part of the outer borough, bringing opportunity platforms out to the outer boroughs is core, ” says hidary .
that single - mindedness came through when hidary, a bachelor, was asked if he is in a relationship .
right now, my relationship is with this campaign and the people of new york ,
he replied .
hidary often reaches into his business and tech background for problem - solving ideas. at a mayoral forum on cultural sensitivity, he touted equal entrepreneurship opportunity as a way to curb tensions among the city' s diverse communities .
high - tech evangelist republicans joe lhota, the former mta chairman, and john catsimatidis, a billionaire businessman, have also embraced much of the bloomberg legacy. but hidary' s camp says his background sets him apart .
their influence goes beyond the syrian community. david hidary was on the board of uja - federation of new york, and other family members have served on the board of yeshivah of flatbush, both ashkenazi - dominated institutions .
the way to help communities that have less access to power and resources is to deploy fewer power and resources to the people who have lots. a political scheme that wants to lift people out of poverty must also deliver a structural account of power. that’s hard to do, and hard to talk about. it’s easy to say nice puffy things about technology. it’s easy to pose smiling in front of an attractive multiracial crowd. it’s easy to raise lots of money from rich people by telling them that they’re doing the good thing by giving money. jack hidary is an excellent representation of this insidious bullplop in action .
but as he prepares to officially unveil his candidacy on wednesday, a quest that once seemed fanciful has evolved into an unexpectedly serious operation, guided by a group of political heavyweights and underwritten by mr. hidary’s sizable bank account .
hidary, for his part, has no doubts about his run. “i’m the best - qualified person for the job, ” he told the forward. “i am not a career politician. the others are career politicians. they’ve
mr. hidary insists that he can draw on his ties to jewish voters, especially the sephardic community in outer brooklyn where he grew up, and to the city’s new army of technology workers to drum up enough votes in november .
in an interview, mr. trippi, the campaign adviser, returned again and again to the idea that new yorkers were unimpressed by their choices for mayor this year, and would be willing to give mr. hidary a chance .
citation: rumala bb, hidary j, ewool l, emdin c, scovell t (2011) tailoring science outreach through e - matching using a community - based participatory approach. plos biol 9 (3): e1001026. urltoken
still, when hidary blew into a flatiron district le pain quotidien on tuesday where the waiters know his name, he was cresting on a bit of good news. bill de blasio, the city’s public advocate and the most unapologetic liberal among the democratic frontrunners, had vaulted into the lead, according to a new poll. the prospect of de blasio or someone like him winning the democratic nomination is the best chance that hidary (or someone like him) has to win .
tucking in to an iced green tea and what he called “one of those chai pudding things, ” hidary explained that the rise of de blasio meant the voting public was dissatisfied with what they have seen so far of the existing field .
and hidary wants to be their candidate. to be another bloomberg, but without bloombergism. that is, not to carry the flag for party machine politics but not to finger - wag over large sodas or e - cigarettes, either .
yet hidary’s candidacy has annoyed members of the syrian establishment. major players in the low - key community have backed him. more pragmatic activists, however, had been looking forward to endorsing a candidate who has a better chance of winning .
as the mayoral season in new york city shifts into high gear — the primaries for the republican and democratic nominations is set for next tues. , sept. 10 — hidary spoke about the “circus” that the race has become. he also cited his intentional and maybe unusual under - the - radar campaign strategy. i was impressed with how fast hidary took a question and ran with it, making my job as moderator fairly easy. this guy has a lot of energy !
hidary’s internet profile is rudimentary at this point, including a lightly designed and irregularly updated blog and a website for his foundation. one entry on his typepad blog dated july 10, 2012, is titled “ disrupting the education system. ”
while both catsimatidis and hidary say voters are looking for a candidate with a strong business background, kevin brennan, the senior analyst at national journal’s hotline, says both contenders are currently an extra - long shot to become the city’s next mayor .
hidary, whose tech - jobs career site urltoken was acquired by private equity firms general atlantic and quadrangle group in 2005 for an estimated $ 200 million, also praises bloomberg’s economic leadership, citing his guidance through the financial crisis and superstorm sandy .
“i have unique among all the candidates…the combination of both business experience – building companies in the growth sector of our economy, but also the public service – the focus on education and helping other people start their own businesses, ” hidary told scott .
hidary, who comes from brooklyn’s wealthy sephardic jewish community, has a biography that bears several similarities to bloomberg’s. a serial entrepreneur, his first major venture was the technology company earthweb / dice, which offers job postings for the information technology industry .
outside of hidary’s business and artistic pursuits, he travels extensively. he has also trained for and completed three marathons: new york city 2007, new york city 2008, and london 2007. he has a passion for the environment and supports alternative energy .
while hidary has said repeatedly that he’s the only candidate in the crowded field with the background to attract companies in a growth economy, given his technology experience, catsimatidis argues his higher profile and 40 + years running major companies puts him ahead of the pack .
with no runaway favorites and a campaign season dominated by anthony weiner’s sexting scandals, hidary says he decided to enter the race late in the game due to a lack of viable candidates. but political experts say his late entry is a high hurdle to overcome .
in a new york times article published saturday, hidary says that
what' s fascinating about this election right now is that there' s really a vacuum in terms of core, concrete ideas. that' s the vacuum we intend to fill .
“we decided that now was the time to come into the race because people now understand what their choice is. they’ve seen what’s out there, there are no more candidates coming in. now we’re coming in today to offer people a choice, ” said hidary .
hidary, who announced his candidacy in a respectfully reported new york times story on july 16, is a scion of one of new york’s most powerful syrian jewish clans. he has already raised more than $ 300, 000 from syrian jews for his mayoral campaign .
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in 1995, hidary and his brother murray launched earthweb, a company that provided tutorials and resource directories to the tech community. in 1999, a year after going public, earthweb acquired dice. com, now one of the country' s leading tech career sites .
hidary, who volunteered for the obama campaign in florida and pennsylvania in 2008, said he believes that with advances in technology he will be able to micro - target his voters and won’t need to carpet - bomb airwaves and mailboxes in the same way that bloomberg did .
“he was right at that time, ” hidary said. “this is a different year. this year you have a group of candidates who are a throwback to machine politics. and you really didn’t have that kind of bevy of candidates when mike bloomberg was running. ”
the hidary foundation catalyzes positive change in several sectors. the foundation has a focus on promoting innovative k - 12 educational programs, particularly those that focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) and those that use project - based learning approaches. the foundation has also supported the promotion of entrepreneurship both through programs that support microfinance focusing on low - income individuals who wish to start companies as well as youth entrepreneurship. the members of the hidary family are all entrepreneurs in fields ranging from technology and clean energy to real estate, fashion and education .
reaching out to voters
we' re going to be the word - of - mouth campaign ,
hidary said. trippi said in an interview that tv ads will be supplemented with databased targeting of likely voters through hulu, which streams movies and tv shows, and google .
hidary is setting himself up as an alternative to a crowded field, assembling heavy hitters to get his message across: howard dean campaign manager joe trippi, bloomberg finance lawyer kenneth a. gross, clinton media strategist richard strauss, and chris christie adviser campaigngrid have all signed on. since he’s running as an independent, hidary figures he has until the primaries in september before people really start following the race in earnest. so until then the plan is to raise funds and support, build his team, and (presumably) keep encouraging the “bloomberg 2. 0” image in the
hidary told the forward that he had been under the impression that the scf would not be making an endorsement in the mayoral race. the scf is a 501 (c) (4), a not - for - profit category under the federal tax code that allows it to make endorsements .
“with all the attention being paid to anthony weiner and his scandals, it’s going to be hard for hidary to gain traction, because there’s so much coverage on the other candidates who have been running for months and have been in the public eye in new york city for years, ” says brennan .
as an independent, the comparisons continue. hidary, who founded the tech career site urltoken and now runs samba energy “is offering himself up as a bloomberg for the post - bloomberg era, with a dose of personal charisma and charm the current mayor lacked when he entered politics in 2001, ” the
jack hidary is a technology and financial entrepreneur who lives in new york city . he is the chairman of samba energy and was the co-founder of earthweb/dice , inc. and vista research . he also co-founded the auto x prize and was one of the architects for the cash for clunkers program . hidary was a 2013 new york city mayoral candidate running as an independent . 
jack hidary is a technology and financial entrepreneur who lives in new york city. he is the chairman of samba energy and was the co-founder of earthweb/dice, inc. and vista research. he also co-founded the auto x prize and was one of the architects for the cash for clunkers program. hidary was a 2013 new york city mayoral candidate running as an independent.
jack hidary is a technology and financial entrepreneur who lives in new york city. he is the chairman of samba energy and was the co-founder of earthweb/dice, inc. and vista research. he also co-founded the auto x prize and was one of the architects for the cash for clunkers program. hidary was a 2013 new york city mayoral candidate running as an independent.