Bahagia karena Istri Melahirkan, Pendiri dan CEO Facebook Lepas 99 Saham

JAKARTA, BANGSAONLINE.com - Pendiri sekaligus CEO Facerbook Mark Zuckerberg beserta istrinya, Priscillia, tengah berbahagia. Mereka kini mendapatkan apa yang selama ini ia idamkan. Ya, istri Mark baru saja melahirkan anak perempuan diberi nama Max.

Saking girangnya dengan kehadiran bayi mungil ini, Mark pun membuat sebuah pernyataan mengejutkan nan mulia. Ia berjanji melepas 99% saham miliknya di Facebook yang total bernilai USD 45 miliar demi kepentingan amal. Pelepasan saham akan dilakukan bertahap sepanjang masa hidupnya.

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Pasangan Mark-Priscillia ini mengikuti jejak yang telah dilakukan Bill Gates bersama istrinya Melinda dengan membuat sebuah yayasan. Oleh Mark, yayasan ini diberi nama Chan Zuckerberg Initiatives. Yayasan ini pula yang akan jadi tempat dari Zuckerberg menghabiskan uangnya demi inisiatif program kemanusiaan.

Berikut kutipan lengkap dari pernyataan Mark Zuckerberg dalam surat terbuka di akun Facebook miliknya pasca kelahiran sang putri yang diberi nama lengkap Maxima Chan Zuckerberg, seperti detikINET kutip Business Insider, Rabu (2/12/2015):

Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook’s CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.

As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.
We will give 99% of our Facebook shares — currently about $45 billion — during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.