Saturday, September 25, 2010

Zuckerberg the Philanthropist

I think it'd be very interesting to sit down and have lunch with this guy.

Zuckerberg the Philanthropist

The New Yorker

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“What makes Mark tick?” is the most common question coming from readers of my Profile of Facebook’s C.E.O, Mark Zuckerberg. After that, they ask, via e-mail, tweets, Facebook messages, and a live chat last week, versions of “What will Mark do with all that money?”

Apparently, Mark will give a lot of it away. Wednesday night, the New York Times broke the story that the Facebook co-founder, in his first public act of philanthropy, will donate $100 million to the Newark Public Schools—one-eighth of its annual operating budget.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/09/zuckerberg-the-philanthropist.html#ixzz10bkoTgLn

Also, check out The Face of Facebook, a really interesting profile about the man himself. Good read.

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