In December of that year, economist Arthur Laffer began advising Polis and joined ProFlowers as a Director. In February 1998, Polis founded ProFlowers, an online florist, in La Jolla, California. In 1996, he co-founded a free electronic greeting card website,, which was sold to in 1999 for $430 million in stock and $350 million in cash. AIS was an internet access provider and was sold in 1998. Polis co-founded American Information Systems (AIS), Inc., while still in college. In 2000, he legally changed his surname to his mother's to raise awareness for a fundraiser and because he simply "liked it better". While at Princeton, Polis served as communications director of the undergraduate student government and was involved in other campus organizations, such as Model Congress and the Princeton Juggling Club. in politics in 1996, writing a 157-page senior thesis, "Paradigm Shift: Politics in the Information Age", under the supervision of Carol M. He graduated from Princeton University with a B.A.
He lived in San Diego, California, as a high school student, graduating from La Jolla Country Day School in three years with multiple honors. He was born at Boulder Community Hospital in Boulder, Colorado, in 1975.
Polis is the son of Stephen Schutz and Susan Polis Schutz, founders of greeting card and book publisher Blue Mountain Arts. governor in a same-sex marriage to be reelected. In 2022, he became the first openly gay man and the first U.S. He is also the first Jewish person elected governor of Colorado. In 2018, he became the first openly gay man and second openly LGBT person (after Kate Brown) elected governor of a U.S. He became the first non-incumbent openly gay man elected to Congress in 2008, and the first openly gay parent in Congress in 2011.
As an openly gay man, Polis has made history several times through his electoral success. He was elected governor of Colorado in 2018 and reelected in a landslide in 2022. A libertarian Democrat, he was the only Democratic member of the Liberty Caucus. Polis served one term on the Colorado State Board of Education from 2001 to 2007, and five terms as the United States representative from Colorado's 2nd congressional district from 2009 to 2019. Jared Schutz Polis ( / ˈ p oʊ l ɪ s/ born May 12, 1975) is an American politician, entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist serving as the 43rd governor of Colorado since 2019.
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