Benjamin Michael "Ben" Rattray (born June 16, 1980) is the founder and CEO of Change.org online petition website, which he founded in 2007. Rattray is included in 2012 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world, listed as one of Fortune's 40 under 40 young business leaders who rose in 2012, and awarded the 21st Century Visionary Award from the Commonwealth Club of California in 2014.
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Personal life
Rattray was born in 1980 in Santa Barbara, California, son of Judy (nÃÆ' Â © e McCaffrey), a regional sales manager at First American Title, and Michael Rattray, CEO of Boys & Santa Barbara County Women's Club. He has one older sibling, Zack, and three younger siblings, Lindsay, Nick, and Tyler.
At Dos Pueblos High School, Rattray is "sporty and handsome" and "a king of homecoming". He wants to grow up to be an investment banker, then retire at age 35 and into politics.
Rattray attended Stanford University during a technology boom in the early 2000s, studying political science and economics. He changed the career path to focus on "the effective pursuit of collective action" after comments made by one of his brothers when it revealed his homosexuality. He then attended the London School of Economics.
Rattray lives in San Francisco.
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Change.org
Rattray launched Change.org from his home in 2007. The site has undergone several repetitions, started as a social network for social activism, transformed into a blogging platform based on, then transitioned to the petition platform in 2011.
The purpose of Change.org, according to Rattray, is to "alter the balance of power between individuals and large organizations."
"Its power is not locked when people have the capacity to more quickly and effectively manage with others unprecedented in human history", Rattray wrote in an email to staff member Change.org. "But what it takes for this to be truly transformational is the solution that transforms the power of man from the power embodied episodically into something that is firmly entrenched in our political and social life - something that keeps human power pervasive and enduring."
In February 2012, Rattray stated that Change.org "grows more every month than the total we have in the first four years", with more than 10,000 petitions commencing each month on the site, and that in 2011 the company's employees have grown from 20 to 100.
Change.org announced a $ 15 million investment led by Omidyar Network in May 2013 and said its staff has grown to 170 in 18 countries.
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