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Andrew Yang, one of the candidates who made an early entry in the 2020 field, might not have much name recognition now, but his popularity and presence have netted increased prominence among the crowded bench -- due in part to his unconventional proposals to resolve income disparity and warnings of a robot takeover of America's job sector. "I’m a capitalist," he told the New York Times in the interview that launched his campaign, "and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue." (MORE: Who is running for president in 2020?) At the National Action Network conference in New York in April, the tech industry veteran underscored the importance of addressing the needs of the future -- as motivations for his candidacy. Technology and capital are "about to come and verge in historical ways," he said Wednesday, which he added will cause many jobs to disappear. (MORE: How Andrew Yang Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary) "I was stunned when I saw the disparities between Detroit and San Francisco or Cleveland and Manhattan. Despite his under-the-radar campaign, Yang announced this month that his campaign raised $1.7 million in less than two months across February and March. 3) Yang's fundraising haul came from over 80,000 donors and followed his announcement in March that he cleared the grassroots fundraising threshold of 65,000 donors to qualify for the first Democratic primary debate. He and his brother grew up "pretty nerdy," according to Yang's campaign website. What he used to do: Yang worked a "brief stint" as a corporate lawyer before founding a failed tech startup.