New — a big $25 million gift from Slack founder @stewart and Away CEO @jennifer to UNICEF for Covid work.

The billionaire couple recently created a new charitable foundation to fund their philanthropic work.
Butterfield here specifically challenges the tech industry to raise another $100 million for the cause.

Look at the stock market, he says. Tech folks can afford it.

https://t.co/HVsFgiLLYb
Pretty rare for tech industry leaders to explicitly acknowledge how the pandemic has made them richer.

Smart of @stewart to play to that and pitch it as a “karmic opportunity.”
$100mm from the tech industry is actually a pretty low bar.

Just take these ten folks. They have accured enormous gains over the last decade, and even over just the last four months.

And that's to say nothing of the billions they've already set aside in foundations or DAFs. Image

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27 Mar
New this weekend —

San Francisco is once again fighting over billionaires’ philanthropic power.

Here’s the story of how a $25 million donation to help students got ensnared in local politics. It’s a doozy.

vox.com/recode/2021/3/…
In December, San Francisco condemned the naming of a hospital after Mark Zuckerberg, who gave it $75 million.

Now, one San Francisco lawmaker has temporarily derailed a proposal that includes a $25 million donation to bring summer school to 20,000 kids.

vox.com/recode/2021/3/…
Mike Moritz, the Sequoia billionaire who donated $25 million and helped broker the summer school arrangement, told Recode that he was trying to help local schoolchildren “and nothing beyond that.”

vox.com/recode/2021/3/…
Read 9 tweets
26 Mar
New —

75 Silicon Valley leaders have signed a letter pushing back on the Gavin Newsom recall effort.

The effort is spearheaded by @RonConway.

Signers include @LaurenePowell Jobs, @ReidHoffman, @markpinc, @EricSchmidt, @jgebbia, @ev, @mikeyk, @jeremys and @jeffiel.
"All California leaders should be 100% focused on COVID19 recovery efforts. I oppose the effort to recall the California Governor in 2021."

Left unsaid here is that these 75 people can put enormous amounts of money behind Newsom, who can raise unlimited amounts for the recall.
Read 4 tweets
23 Feb
NEWS —

The latest in the information wars.

A top Democratic strategist is quietly raising $65 million for a new progressive media play.

"Traditional media is failing. Disinformation is flourishing. It’s time for a new kind of media."

The first look —>

vox.com/recode/2229652…
The details:

Democratic strategist Tara McGowan is trying to raise $65 million to back media outlets. It's called the Project for Good Information.

$35 million to invest in media companies, including Courier News.

$25 million for grants to nonprofits.

vox.com/recode/2229652…
>@CourierNewsroom, a portfolio of eight different progressive news sites backed largely by @anotheracronym, is about to get bigger.

Courier will receive an investment from Good Information, Inc. — the for-profit arm of the Project for Good Information.

vox.com/recode/2229652…
Read 6 tweets
2 Feb
WOW, Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon — will become executive chair.
pretty amazing this didn't leak at all?
In his letter to Amazon employees, Jeff Bezos says he will Pivot to Philanthropy.

I will "have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions."

Full letter here.
Read 6 tweets
2 Feb
I wrote about Elon Musk, Chamath and GameStop.

And about how a pair of tech billionaires somehow became the heroes of America's anti-billionaire moment.

vox.com/recode/2021/2/…
A little news in here:

Chamath Palihapitiya last week donated $100,000 to the group organizing the recall of Gavin Newsom.

It's one of the biggest checks to date to the Rescue California committee.

vox.com/recode/2021/2/…
The debate on Wall Street Bets about billionaires in society is fun.

vox.com/recode/2021/2/…
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23 Jan
The Lincoln Project is promising a campaign "aimed" at Microsoft's board of directors.

On Microsoft's board of directors is ... Reid Hoffman, one of the Lincoln Project's most prominent supporters.
We'll see what @SteveSchmidtSES has planned, but it's a reminder of how complicated things can be when you're a billionaire mega-donor.

Your corporate and political investments can conflict with one another.
New: Microsoft has taken the unusual step of now releasing a full transcript of president Brad Smith's leaked comments about why its PAC makes political donations.
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