Daniel Lubetzky (born 1968) was a Mexican-American billionaire businessman, philanthropist, author, founder, and executive chairman of the snack company Kind LLC.
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Daniel Lubetzky was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1968, the son of a Latvian-born Lithuanian-Jewish Holocaust survivor. His family moved to the United States while he was a teenager, and he briefly worked as a lawyer after college before founding KIND Snacks in 2003 to provide a healthy and appetizing alternative to unhealthy snacks amid an obesity epidemic. His company became the fastest-growing snack company in the USA, and, by June 2020, he had a net worth of $1.2 billion. Lubetzky was a generous philanthropist, an advocate of a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a self-described moderate who endorsed the Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election because of his belief that Biden was a staunch moderate who could build a strong economy, and because of his opponent Donald Trump's nativist rhetoric, his polarization, and his "disregard for constitutional norms." Lubetzky also served on Biden's Small Business Advisory Council.