philanthropy

It's not a company doing other things that tried its hand at philanthropy and died in short order.

It's worthy of note that Rockefeller, who was the worlds first billionaire, donated $550 million through his philanthropy by 1918.

The number two limiting factor on philanthropy is that, despite good intentions, people just don't actually get around to it.

The guy's only 67 and actively involved in growing new businesses and philanthropy.

He discussed the values of teaching children, being an inclusive community, and philanthropy.

We think an essential role of philanthropy is to make bets on promising solutions that governments and businesses cant afford to make.

Odds are you'll make far more money working at McDonalds than you ever will as any kind of artist. And, a bit of philanthropy notwithstanding, the rest of society reflects this monetary bias.

I work for Palantir, a really great company that's growing extremely rapidly and working on some pretty cool projects across a variety of spaces: government, healthcare, local law enforcement, finance to name a few. We've also done some kickass philanthropy efforts, such as our work with Hurricane Sandy: [2].

In many ways, philanthropy such as the Gates Foundation helps mitigate the first, but I've yet to see anything other than war with a technologically-equal enemy push forward the second.

If you buy that argument, I ask you to think less of him because he spent fewer of the limited number of hours of his lifetime on philanthropy than some of the people who inherited a fortune and spend their lives on charitable causes.

The sort of person that faced with ownership of Facebook would say he would just retire and travel and dabble in philanthropy is also the sort of person who would sell out of a Facebook for $500m a few years earlier, $100m a year or two before that, $50m months before that...

Unless the litter he removed is really worth more than two people's lives to him, he's erring even according to his own value system....and the same is true if his philanthropy leads him to work full-time at a nonprofit instead of going to law school to become a lawyer who makes $1,000 / hour in the first place.

Sure, but Jobs himself says this and invites comparisons in the very article that this HN post points to:>Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think hes more comfortable now in philanthropy than technologyThat does seem like a cheap dig to me against someone that is doing very important work in the third world.