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Incredible human. Gates + Buffett credit him with helping come up with The Giving Pledge they so famously established. Such humility. Was honestly a sad mome

Incredible human. Gates + Buffett credit him with helping come up with The Giving Pledge they so famously established. Such humility. Was honestly a sad moment when he was outed (1997, Time Magazine if memory serves me right) - felt like he deserved to give in private if he wanted to. Gives more than others but always lets someone else put their name on it (eg: Benioff Children's Hospital in SF - he was the largest single benefactor). Only other similar philanthropy I've ever seen - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-08/three-mysterious-philanthropists-fund-fourth-largest-u-dot-s-dot-charity https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-08/three-mys....

justaguyhere 9y ago
"To continue reading this article you must be a Bloomberg Professional Service Subscriber" :(
- adamw2k 9y ago
  Ugh - Bloomberg buys Businessweek and then throws all of the content behind a paywall. Here's a better link: https://web.archive.org/web/20140514054305/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-08/three-mysterious-philanthropists-fund-fourth-largest-u-dot-s-dot-charity#p1 https://web.archive.org/web/20140514054305/http://www.busine...
  - toomuchtodo 9y ago
    You could always have bought the content, and given it away for free. People need to eat and pay the rent yo. I am fully supportive of anyone who wants to Kickstart content corpus purchases and then give that to the Internet Archive for WayBack inclusion.
  - ProAm 9y ago
    People complain about ads on a website and how they have to use an ad-blocker and then the complain when they put stuff behind a paywall. Can't have it both ways, people deserve to be paid for good journalism.
    - JoeAltmaier 9y ago
      Popup ad blocking is not the problem. There's no need for popup ads at all - its a scummy practice.
      - ProAm 9y ago
        I didnt mention pop up ads, just ads.
        JoeAltmaier 9y ago
        Do ad blockers block non-popup ads?
        ProAm 9y ago
        Yes
    - zerr 9y ago
      To be honest, those who use ad blockers most likely are not the target audience for an ad payer.
wilsonfiifi 9y ago
Seems he outed himself in a New York Times article [0] according to Wikipedia. That's if you're referring to that incident [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney#Duty-Free_Shoppers

justaguyhere 9y ago

"To continue reading this article you must be a Bloomberg Professional Service Subscriber" :(

adamw2k 9y ago
Ugh - Bloomberg buys Businessweek and then throws all of the content behind a paywall. Here's a better link: https://web.archive.org/web/20140514054305/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-08/three-mysterious-philanthropists-fund-fourth-largest-u-dot-s-dot-charity#p1 https://web.archive.org/web/20140514054305/http://www.busine...
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  You could always have bought the content, and given it away for free. People need to eat and pay the rent yo. I am fully supportive of anyone who wants to Kickstart content corpus purchases and then give that to the Internet Archive for WayBack inclusion.
- ProAm 9y ago
  People complain about ads on a website and how they have to use an ad-blocker and then the complain when they put stuff behind a paywall. Can't have it both ways, people deserve to be paid for good journalism.
  - JoeAltmaier 9y ago
    Popup ad blocking is not the problem. There's no need for popup ads at all - its a scummy practice.
    - ProAm 9y ago
      I didnt mention pop up ads, just ads.
      - JoeAltmaier 9y ago
        Do ad blockers block non-popup ads?
        ProAm 9y ago
        Yes
  - zerr 9y ago
    To be honest, those who use ad blockers most likely are not the target audience for an ad payer.

wilsonfiifi 9y ago

Seems he outed himself in a New York Times article [0] according to Wikipedia. That's if you're referring to that incident [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney#Duty-Free_Shoppers