Zuckerberg was father and announced that it will donate US $ 45,000 million – Clarín.com

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, joined the trend of billionaires arising from his fortune to help the world and announced yesterday that he and his wife donated “alive” 99% of its shares the company to charity. There are coins precisely, the figure is 45,000 million dollars

The promise was made in an open letter he wrote to his daughter Max, born only a week ago, and was broadcast by the network. next to a photo of them with the baby. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, announced that they formed a new organization called Chan Zuckerberg Initiative that will be responsible for handling money. “The initial focus will be on personalized learning, cure diseases, connect people and build stronger communities,” they wrote.
Zuckerberg said Facebook will continue to drive “for many, many years” and that in the coming months will be more details about this decision. The idea, expressed in the letter, it is to “advance human potential and promote equality of human beings” so that her daughter can “live in a better world.” They also seek “fight for a better world for future generations”.

The 31-year entrepreneur who always wears a simple gray shirt to avoid wasting time and effort in deciding what to wear in the morning, has estimated at about 46,800 million dollars, according to Forbes magazine, is ranked 16th in the world ranking of the richest.

fortune five years ago, the American billionaire Warren Buffet and Bill joined Melinda Gates in a campaign to convince their peers to donate most of his wealth to charity, in life or in their wills. They then launched “The Giving Pledge” (The commitment to) that has had great success because today more than 130 couples and people in 14 countries have joined the initiative, rather than a binding legal contract is a moral commitment to inspire . other

Most US tycoons chose to participate, including Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison; former New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg; investor Carl Icahn; Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and the founder of Tesla, Elon Musk. Zuckerberg himself had joined this group.

Zuckerberg and Chan, who announced the pregnancy in August, had already made other donations. In October they founded a free private school for disadvantaged children near where they live in California. The school called East Palo Alto, will teach 700 children. Years ago, the couple had donated $ 100 million to the state of New Jersey school system.