Mark Zuckerberg announced to the world that a father and that will make one of the largest donations ever – delivering 99% of its shares in Facebook to a foundation he created with his wife, Priscilla Chan. Reactions have multiplied after the publication of a Post in your own social network and, in the last 24 hours, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook has become “the” philanthropist not only of Silicon Valley but the world. Still no details on how it will proceed to the donation, the initiative shook social networks, between praise but also some sarcasm.
About 45 billion dollars (42.500 million euros). The number, which represents the value of 99% of the shares at current price, impressive. It is probably one of the largest ever made donations, although not made at once. A “small contribution”, as ranked Zuckerberg, will be donated initially in installments of about 1000 million (EUR 945 million) in each of the next three years.
That would make part Daughter heritage of Zuckerberg and Chan couple will continue between “family” as the mega-fortune will be destined to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative foundation, to improve the human potential and promoting equality among all children in the next generation.
The philanthropic act put the Facebook CEO at the top of the Silicon Valley generous, alongside names like Bill Gates, who has donated much of his fortune to projects related to combating malaria or protecting the environment.
donation to the reactions come in the form of comments to Post Zuckerberg that sharing the letter he wrote to his daughter to talk about the world we want this grow. With over a million “likes”, 185,000 shares and over 78 thousand comments, the 13h of Wednesday, the Post received a comment from Melinda Gates, Bill Gates’s wife. “Wow,” he wrote, to comment on the “generosity” and “deep commitment” to Zuckerberg couple. “The example set today is an inspiration to us and to the world,” he added. “Max and all children who are born now will grow up in a world that is better than the one we know,” considered Melinda Gates, stressing that the work of the co-founder of Facebook “will bear fruit for many decades yet to come.”
Also the director of operations of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, congratulated the couple for this “new chapter” in their lives. In Post then shared in your account, Sandberg stressed the “generosity and attentiveness” featuring Zuckerberg and Chan. Public figures like singer Shakira, founder and president of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, or journalist Maria Shiver also underlined the “bounty” that is the announced donation, and the potential that the application of these funds have in making a difference in education or the fight against diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Outside of Facebook, Bono, the lead singer of U2, left a message to think about the future of Zuckerberg and Chan options. “Can not wait to see what will achieve, not only with his fortune, but by his example and by his ingenuity, creativity and vision applied to some of the biggest challenges – and opportunities – of our time”
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former mayor in New York and also he a billionaire, Michael R. Bloomberg, applauded Tuesday’s announcement and said it shares with Zuckerberg’s interest in education and innovation. Left, quoted by New York Times , however, a challenge:. “How many of your peers in Silicon Valley and beyond will join him”
addition to the public figures, thousands of users of Facebook and Twitter have left praise for the couple, between congratulations and many baby photos that were born the same day as Max. Among the comments there are those who ask Zuckerberg because they donated 100% of the shares or how will manage the sales of shares to donate to his own foundation. Still others play and make puns on social networks with Zuckerberg and Chan ad.
In 2,200 words, Mark Zuckerberg Gives his baby her first lecture -we are using your inheritance to save the world https://t.co/ErHe5JrtnB
- michellequinn (michellequinn) December 1, 2015
One day I hope to give away 99% of my things and still have $ 450 million
– Jesse Lehrich (JesseLehrich) 1 December 2015
On Twitter a user wrote that the usual reported that the co-founder of Facebook publishes your account will now be fully replaced by baby photos, while another shoots that “Mark Zuckerberg will donate 99% of our personal information to charity.” A user adds on his part that the US “gave the first lesson to your baby – we will use your inheritance to save the world.” Other tweets are but sarcastic – “Selfish Mark Zuckerberg that will keep 1% of its Facebook shares to its own enrichment” or “Someday I hope to give 99% of my stuff and still be left with 450 millions of dollars “.
The recently announced grant is the largest ever made by Zuckerberg, but not the first. At 26, signed the Giving Pledge , a document released by Bill Gates and tycoon Warren Buffett in which some of the richest families and individuals in the world have pledged to give over half of their fortunes to causes philanthropy or charity during his lifetime or in your will. Names like David Rockefeller, the investment fund manager Bill Ackman and his wife, Karen, the owner of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, and film producer Steve Bing agreed to donate half of their fortunes to philanthropy as Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of the late CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, or Dustin Moskovitz, who Zuckerberg founded Facebook.
The co-founder of Facebook has donated in partnership with the woman 120 million to implement a fund for five years for the education of disadvantaged population of the Bay Area; 75 million were delivered to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; 52 million to the Center for Control and Prevention Disease to fight the Ebola; and 100 million to Newark public education system. In 2013, the publication The Chronicle of Philanthropy named Zuckerberg double as the greatest philanthropists in the United States, after both donated company shares worth 970 million (EUR 915 million) to an institution in Silicon Valley, California, which receives and manages donations and apply for projects in the region.
Still in 2013, the CEO of Facebook now has an annual salary of one dollar, following the Like several top managers that have symbolic orderly and that one of the best known examples was Steve Jobs.
Zuckerberg’s announcement comes a day after, next to Bill Gates, announced that Breakthrough Energy Coalition joined a group of billionaires who are committed to invest in clean energy technologies on behalf of the environment.
The billionaire also has shown generous with employees of Facebook. A few days after announcing that it will take two months’ paternity leave after the birth of her daughter, moved that paternity leave will be extended to four months, full time, for the company’s employees outside the United States, like the that was already the case with workers in the country. About a year ago, Facebook also announced that women working at the company in the US, and want to postpone motherhood and continue to invest in career can opt for cryopreservation of oocytes for free. The company decided to pay the costs associated with egg freezing.
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