Steve Hilton is an entrepreneur, a bestselling author, and the Republican candidate for governor of California. The son of Hungarian refugees who fled communism, he grew up in a working-class home in London, earned his way to Oxford University, and served as director of strategy to British Prime Minister David Cameron. After moving to Silicon Valley in 2012, he taught at Stanford University, co-founded the start-up Crowdpac, and hosted The Next Revolution on Fox News. In 2023 he co-founded Golden Together, a bipartisan nonprofit tackling California’s toughest problems. He and his wife, Rachel Whetstone, have two children and live in California.