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I am sick of tired of people hating on Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and almost every famous techie person around the globe. All you haters who talk spank about famous Techie people. Have you ever donated any money to people who are in need of help? Do you know how much donations does #BillGates, #JeffBezos, #MarkZuckerberg, #ElonMusk, and all other famous techie people give? and on top of that, do you know how many jobs have been generated because of these famous techie people? You don’t! So stop hating and start learning and loving 🙂
REMEMBER THEY DON’T HAVE TO SHARE OR DONATE ANY MONEY TO ANYONE OR ANY CHARITY OR ANY ORGANIZATION.
Even if they donated 0.001% of their wealth, we should thank them because nobody putting a gun over their heads to donate their wealth.
Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has donated roughly $5.7 billion worth of Tesla shares to charity in November, a new SEC filing shows.
According to the filing, Musk donated a total of 5,044,000 Tesla shares between Nov. 19 and 29, 2021.
The name of the charity isn’t revealed in the filing, but the donation could have something to do with this Twitter thread and the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP).
If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2021
Bill Gates
Net worth: $90 billion
Amount donated: $41 billion
How he made his billions: Gates co-founded Microsoft and was once the company’s largest shareholder.
Along with his wife, Gates established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private charitable foundation in the world, which has a focus on global health and poverty. The Gates family has donated more than $36 billion since the foundation launched in 2000, and Bill Gates has also donated billions-worth of Microsoft stock to the organization. The Gates family, along with Warren Buffett, launched the Giving Pledge together in 2010.
Michael Dell
net worth: $22.7 billion
Amount donated: $2.02 billion
How he made his billions: Dell is the chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies. He also runs the investment firm MSD Capital.
Donations made: With this wife, Dell established in 1999 the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, which focuses on children living in poverty. Dell pledged $36 million in 2016 to help rebuild Houston following extensive flooding and damage caused by Hurricane Harvey.
Sergey Brin
Net worth: $47.5 billion
Amount donated: $2.20 billion
How he made his billions: Brin co-founded Google with Larry Page, and now serves as president of Alphabet.
Donations made: Brin has donated to charities focusing on Parkinson’s research, including the Michael J. Fox Foundation. He also donated $1 million in 2009 to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish organization that helped Brin’s family immigrate to the U.S. almost 40 years ago.
Ma Huateng
net worth: $45.3 billion
Amount donated: $2.01 billion
How he made his billions: Ma is the founder and CEO of Tencent, the most valuable company in Asia. Tencent’s subsidiaries include the messaging platforms WeChat and QQ, as well as several successful video game brands.
Donations made: Ma donated 100 million of his personal shares of Tencent — worth more than $2 billion — to the Ma Huateng Global Foundation to support “medical, educational, and environmental causes in China,” Reuters reported.
Larry Page
Net worth: $48.8 billion
Amount donated: $1.50 billion
How he made his billions: Page co-founded Google with Sergey Brin in 1998, and now serves as CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent company.
Donations made: Page founded the Carl Victor Page Memorial Foundation, named after his father, in 2006. He’s donated hundreds of thousands of Google shares to the charity. Through both the foundation and Google, Page pledged $25 million in 2014 to fight Ebola. Page also sits on the board of trustees for XPRIZE, which holds competitions to “crowdsource solutions to the world’s grand challenges.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Net worth: $71 billion
Amount donated: $1.72 billion
How he made his billions: Zuckerberg is the co-founder and CEO of Facebook.
Donations made: Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have donated more than $1 billion toward education and medical research, including a multi-million-dollar donation to a San Francisco hospital later named after Zuckerberg. The couple created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2015 to focus on “personalized learning, curing diseases, and connecting people.” When they announced their organization’s launch, Zuckerberg and Chan also pledged they would give away 99% of their Facebook shares to charity during their lifetimes.
Zuckerberg and Chan were some of the first to sign the “Giving Pledge” back in 2010.
Larry Ellison
Net worth: $58.5 billion
Amount donated: $1.20 billion
How he made his billions: Ellison is the co-founder and chief technology officer at Oracle. He was also named to Tesla’s board of directors in December 2018.
Donations made: Through the Lawrence Ellison Foundation, he’s donated millions to educational and healthcare causes. Notable donations include $200 million toward a USC cancer research center, and $100 million to help eliminate polio. Ellison is one of the billionaires on this list who has signed the “Giving Pledge,” which asks those who agree to promise to donate a majority of their wealth to charity either while alive or in their will.
Jeff Bezos
Net worth: $112 billion
Amount donated: $2.14 billion
How he made his billions: Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon, the eCommerce giant that’s helped him earn the title of world’s wealthiest person. Bezos also runs an aerospace company called Blue Origin, and he purchased the Washington Post in 2013.
Donations made: Bezos announced in September 2018 that he was launching the Bezos Day One Fund, a $2 billion initiative to support homeless families and build “full-scholarship, Montessori-inspired preschools.”
Powell Jobs
Net worth: $18.8 billion
Amount donated: $150 million
How she made her billions: Powell Jobs inherited billions of dollars worth of stakes in Apple and Disney from her late husband, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, when he died in 2011. She founded a social impact firm called Emerson Collective in 2004 and bought a majority share in The Atlantic in 2017.
Donations made: Powell Jobs founded a nonprofit called College Track that helps prepare low-income students for college through tutoring and mentoring. Through Emerson Collective, Powell Jobs pledged $50 million to fund XQ: The Super School Project, an educational reform venture trying to revamp high school curricula. She also serves on the boards for nonprofits like Teach for America and Conservation International.
Conclusion
I want to express my gratitude to all of the well-known techies I mentioned above as well as those I missed. Thank you very much for creating jobs and distributing as much wealth as you can; I really appreciate it. Every bit helps, I know you have to run a business. Every penny matters to us.
