“In Silicon Valley, people get very rich, very fast, often when they are very young. As a result, they are often criticized for not giving away enough of that money,” Claire Cain Miller reports for The New York Times. “But many in tech are still in their 20s, and say they are working long days running companies and trying to improve the world with their products, and will be able to focus on philanthropy later in life.”
“There is another story line, though, one brought to light by the tale of Laurene Powell Jobs,” Miller reports. “She is the widow of Steve Jobs, one of the tech titans who received the most criticism for a lack of philanthropy. Yet for more than two decades, his family has been giving away money — anonymously.”
Miller reports, “‘We’re really careful about amplifying the great work of others in every way that we can, and we don’t like attaching our names to things,’ Ms. Powell Jobs said in an interview for a profile that Peter Lattman and I wrote in The New York Times last week.”
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MacDailyNews Take: What was that we said way back when? Oh, yeah:
“The way in which people approach charity, how much money people give or don’t give to charity, and which charities they may or may not support is none of Leander Kahney’s or anybody else’s damn business. Our advice to Kahney is to… go read Jobs’ 2005 Commencement Address to Stanford University, and take Jobs’ advice to heart, ‘Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.'” – MacDailyNews Take, is response to Wired News’ Leander Kahney’s questioning of Steve Jobs’ charitable giving, January 25, 2006
“People who question whether others are giving to charity are uncouth and classless. Charity does’t have to come with a press release and a photo op. Mind your own business, Mr. Sorkin.” – MacDailyNews Take, is response to The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin’s questioning of Steve Jobs’ charitable giving, August 30, 2011
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