Jared Weinstein is a former government official. He served as the special assistant and personal aide to U.S. President George W. Bush from 2006 - 2009. Prior to this post, he served as an aide to White House Chiefs of Staff

Andy Card Andrew Hill Card Jr. (born May 10, 1947) is an American politician and academic administrator who was White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006, as well as head of Bush's White House Iraq Group. Card served as U ...

and

Josh Bolten Joshua Brewster Bolten (born August 16, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician. Bolten served as the White House Chief of Staff to U.S. President George W. Bush, replacing Andrew Card on April 14, 2006. Previously, he served as the Director o ...

. After President Bush left office, Weinstein served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Office of George W. Bush in Dallas, Texas. In 2011, Weinstein joined Palantir Technologies in a business development and advisory role and also co-founded venture capital firm

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as a general partner and where he serves as COO. Weinstein stepped down from his role at Palantir in 2015.

Biography

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he is the son of Brenda and Steve Weinstein, members of Birmingham's Jewish community. Weinstein attended Mountain Brook High School. Weinstein graduated from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

with a BA in Public Policy in 2002, where he received a grant to help fund the

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inner-city baseball league. In 2011 he graduated with an MBA from the

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