Jack Dorsey vows to donate $1 billion to fight the #coronavirus. #TheNewYorkTimes

1179
Wednesday, 08 April, 2020, 14:05
Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of Twitter and Square, said on Tuesday that he planned to donate $1 billion, or just under a third of his total wealth, to relief programs related to the coronavirus, in one of the more significant efforts by a tech billionaire to fight the pandemic.Mr. Dorsey said he would put 28 percent of his wealth, in the form of shares in his mobile payments company Square, into a limited liability company that he had created, called Start Small. Start Small would make grants to beneficiaries, he said, with the expenditures to be recorded in a publicly accessible Google document.

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production in Texas next year to ramp Cybercab, Musk says
21418:00
36 Russian ballistic missiles slam Kyiv, damage Northern Bridge, injure at least 6 people
500Yesterday, 13:06
Statement by Veronika Zonabend on the Humanitarian Visit to Baku
68606.11.2026, 16:49
France reports 448 arrests as 53 police officers injured in protests (video)
74306.11.2026, 10:18
Professor Vahakn N. Dadrian Digital Archive to Make Lifetime of Scholarship Available to the World
53405.11.2026, 22:49
Bomb threats affect flights across Europe again
70705.11.2026, 16:36
After months lost at sea on a small boat, 5 people are rescued in the island nation of Kiribati (photo)
80104.11.2026, 21:37
American high school student discovers 3,300-year-old amulet in Israel (photo)
81704.11.2026, 19:36