Arena.run (the Arena 527 and the Arena Political Action Committee (PAC)) was founded in 2017 to provide training and support to Democratic Party campaign staff. Arena 527 raises funding, and Arena PAC provides a set of pre-planned campaign tutorials and templates to help Democratic campaigns with left-of-center messaging, voter targeting, staff hiring, and plans for Get out the Vote (GOTV) efforts. 10 Notable contributors included:
- Wicklow Capital president Daniel V. Tierney contributed $640,333
- LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman gave $625,000
- Stephen G Schuler, a Wicklow director, gave $309,668
- Arena’s Swati Mylavarapu gave $295,000
- Former Google engineer Matt Rogers gave $295,000
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Ravi Gupta is the co-Founder and managing partner of Arena PAC. He controls the full-time staff, manages the organization’s resources, and runs the Arena Summit training and Arena community projects. Ravi was a speechwriter to Obama administration U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, and helped with fundraising and voter turnout operations for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. 0){
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