“As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation”.
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And it is an accolade few would grudge after the social media site’s owner Mark Zuckerburg announced the birth of his baby daughterMax alongside the news he is to give away 99% of his shares in the company. For her birth, we wrote a letter to her about the world we hope she grows up in.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he will give away 99% of his shares to charity. Zuckerberg said he and Priscilla are committing to spending their lives doing their small part to help solve these challenges.
“Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. The example you’re setting today is an inspiration to us and the world”.
As for the man on the street, there are two camps emerging regarding this – one camp are “It’s an wonderful thing to do, he will make a world a better place”, while others are stating “Meh, it’s a nice thing to do, but you don’t have to tell the world about it, just do it”. Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. In 2014, Forbes rated Bill and Melinda Gates as the most philanthropic couple in America, having donated $2,65 billion in 2013 toward fighting disease and reforming education, among other initiatives around the globe. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramatically better than ours today.
The pledge is remarkable given Zuckerberg’s relative youth – he’s 31 – and because he’s still at the apex of his career running Facebook, a prosperous tech giant that powers the world’s most popular social network and boasts a $300 billion market cap.
“But together we can succeed and create a more equal world”.
“We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us”. “It’s incredibly impressive and an enormous commitment that really eclipses anything that we’ve seen in terms of size”, said Phil Buchanan, president of the nonprofit Center for Effective Philanthropy.
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He signed off “Love, Mom and Dad”.
