Mark Zuckerberg is without a doubt one of the most well-known Silicon Valley CEO’s, who is the creator and current head of Facebook, the giant social networking site. Well, today he made headlines around the world when he announced a spectacular news. He is donating 99% of his Facebook shares or in other words $45 billion to charity!
Mark announced this news on his Facebook profile on the occasion of the birth of his daughter, Max. In a letter to Max, Mark mentioned very interesting details on what he would like the future world to be in which most diseases or if not all diseases in the world are cured.
You can read the entire letter embedded below.
Priscilla and I are so happy to welcome our daughter Max into this world!For her birth, we wrote a letter to her about…
Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, 1 December 2015
To make a world a better place, Mark is donating $45 billion of his net worth or 99% of his Facebook shares, which as you can imagine is staggering!
The money will go to solving major world problems such as improving education and curing diseases. Therefore as you can guess, this is by far one of the best news coming out of the Silicon Valley this year.
We wish Mark the best of luck.
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