Giving away shares?
The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have just had a baby and, as is the way of babies, she seems to have changed their lives. They’ve just announced that they’ll be giving away 99% of their Facebook stock – which is precisely the sort of thing one does when crazed with sleep deprivation and hormones – to a charitable foundation aimed at saving the world through technology.
This sudden urge to do your bit for humanity, to create a better world for other people’s children too, is one of the nicer surprises of parenthood. Perhaps the most moving exposition of it this week came from Emma and Andrew Lee, whose daughter Hope has became Britain’s youngest organ donor. Born with a fatal brain condition, she lived for only just over an hour after her birth, but her parents ensured that her liver cells and kidneys live on in others. It helped to know that in her few minutes on Earth, they said, she had “achieved more than some people do in a lifetime”.
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