Tech titans’ desire to reshape philanthropy is nothing new. Everyone knows the transition that Melinda Gates made from Microsoft to the Gates Foundation to Pivotal Ventures, a hybrid approach to investing in women-led startups and leveraging philanthropic grant-making to drive advocacy and social progress. Founder of craigslist, Craig Newmark, started Craig Newmark Philanthropies to give back and fight disinformation, protect democracy, and support women in tech, while Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Google, co-founded The Schmidt Family Foundation to support organizations and initiatives to work toward a healthier and more just world.
But it isn’t just the tech luminaries making these shifts. A growing number of tech leaders
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