and move over, propecia, the exclusive danish hair clinic setting up shop in beverly hills.ll that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ david: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i am david gura. in this week's features section, the profile of stephen spinner. he was in charge of the controversial solyndra investment, but now he has created software crucial to politicians getting elected. i spoke to reporter josh green. josh: i first met steve spinner when i went out to silicon valley to do a story on the up-and-coming candidacy of barack obama, who had just challenged hillary clinton and had surprised the political establishment by managing to raise enormous amounts of money, raising more money than clinton did. one of the ways he did that was by tapping into silicon valley guys like spinner, who at the time were interested in social networks. spinner, who is an ordinary middle-class guy for silicon valley, not a billionaire by any stretch, wound up being one of his top 10 fundraisers. david: joining the ranks of well-known celebrities. you write about how he weaponiz

and move over, propecia, the exclusive danish hair clinic setting up shop in beverly hills.ll that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ david: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i am david gura. in this week's features section, the profile of stephen spinner. he was in charge of the controversial solyndra investment, but now he has created software crucial to politicians getting elected. i spoke to reporter josh green. josh: i first met steve spinner when i went out to silicon valley to do a story on the up-and-coming candidacy of barack obama, who had just challenged hillary clinton and had surprised the political establishment by managing to raise enormous amounts of money, raising more money than clinton did. one of the ways he did that was by tapping into silicon valley guys like spinner, who at the time were interested in social networks. spinner, who is an ordinary middle-class guy for silicon valley, not a billionaire by any stretch, wound up being one of his top 10 fundraisers. david: joining the ranks of well-known celebrities. you write about how he weaponiz

and move over, propecia, the exclusive danish hair clinic setting up shop in beverly hills.ll that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ david: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i am david gura. in this week's features section, the profile of stephen spinner. he was in charge of the controversial solyndra investment, but now he has created software crucial to politicians getting elected. i spoke to reporter josh green. josh: i first met steve spinner when i went out to silicon valley to do a story on the up-and-coming candidacy of barack obama, who had just challenged hillary clinton and had surprised the political establishment by managing to raise enormous amounts of money, raising more money than clinton did. one of the ways he did that was by tapping into silicon valley guys like spinner, who at the time were interested in social networks. spinner, who is an ordinary middle-class guy for silicon valley, not a billionaire by any stretch, wound up being one of his top 10 fundraisers. david: joining the ranks of well-known celebrities. you write about how he weapon

propecia, the exclusive danish hair clinic setting up shop in beverly hills.on valley to do a story on the up and coming candidacy of barack obama, who had just challenged hillary clinton and surprised the political establishment i raising enormous amounts of money, raising more money than clinton did. one of the ways he did that was by tapping into silicon valley guys like spinner, who at the time were interested in social networks. spinner, who is an ordinary middle-class guy for silicon valley, not a billionaire by any stretch. david: you write about how he weaponize the algorithm. what has he done? josh: after he left the obama administration, he is an entrepreneur and got to thinking about what company can i start, what problem can i solve? the one he knew best was fund-raising. spinner essentially wanted to hadd his software, what he higher neared in obama's first campaign, and the idea that instead of manually going out and calling everybody in your social network and trying to figure out whether they were republican or democrat, passing off a lot of pe

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