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Teddy Schleifer

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2 years

This from Trevor Noah on taxing billionaires is … pretty perceptive!

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Bill Gates implanting himself with a micro-chip to monitor where Bill Gates is at all times

Bill Gates

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3 years

One of the benefits of being 65 is that I’m eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. I got my first dose this week, and I feel great. Thank you to all of the scientists, trial participants, regulators, and frontline healthcare workers who got us to this point.

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Bill Gates on a wealth tax: "I've paid over $10 billion in taxes. I've paid more than anyone in taxes. If I had to pay $20 billion, it's fine." "But when you say I should pay $100 billion, then I'm starting to do a little math over what I have left over."

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Sorkin: "Do you have any interest in space?" Bill Gates: "No." Sorkin: "Your neigbor in Seattle likes space." Gates: "He can have it." Billionaires joking who can "have" space.

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3 years

WOW, Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon — will become executive chair.

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9 months

the Zuck-Elon fight ain’t happening.

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4 years

Here are some photos of the Buttigieg fundraiser in Napa -- with the famous wine cave and the chandelier with 1,500 Swarovski crystals -- that @BrianSlodysko wrote about.

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Gates on whether he'd meet with Elizabeth Warren: "I'm not sure how open minded she is -- or that she'd even be willing to sit down with somebody who has large amounts of money."

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Beto O'Rourke is endorsing Joe Biden.

Joe Biden Accepts Endorsements at Dallas Rally the Night Before Super Tuesday (Published 2020)

www.nytimes.com

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lmao The lawyer who is cross-examining Elon Musk accidentally just called him "Mr. Tweet" instead of "Mr. Musk." Elon says "Mr. Tweet" is all good "That's probably an accurate description."

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7 years

Am baffled why Trump keeps saying he's spent over $100 million on this campaign, which is: a) Easily checkable b) Indisputably false

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Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban: “We love all 23 candidates," Haim says, then pauses. "No, minus one. I profoundly dislike Bernie Sanders, and you can write it.”

How to Give Away $420 Million: Cheryl and Haim Saban on Hollywood Philanthropy, Israel and 2020...

Haim and Cheryl Saban, who have given away $420 million of their $3.2? billion fortune, reveal how they select causes like women’s empowerment, Israel and that $50 million gift to the Academy Museum.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Bill Gates, should we abolish billionaires? "Maybe I'm just too biased to think that if you create a company that's super valuable, that at least some part of that you should be able to have -- a little bit for consumption, and the balance to do philanthropic things."

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Gates is asked who he'd vote for in a Trump vs. Warren election. He doesn't directly say. He says he'd vote for whoever has the "more professional approach" to the presidency, even if he disagrees with them. "I hope the more professional candidate is an electable candidate."

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5 months

I was in the room when these five minutes happened and still can’t believe these five minutes happened.

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1 year

🚨 JUST IN — The entire team behind the FTX Future Fund, the Sam Bankman-Fried philanthropy, has resigned. A holy-shit moment in the world of effective altruism.

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Scoop — Bill Gates is exploring ways to convince other billionaires to donate more for coronavirus. Ideas that Gates has considered include launching a new COVID fund for billionaires who signed the Giving Pledge, per sources.

Bill Gates has an idea for how to get billionaires to donate more for coronavirus

The small messages that Gates sends the signers of the Giving Pledge could have big effects.

www.vox.com

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Judy Woodruff: Do you draw any lessons from the mistakes you made with Jeffrey Epstein? Bill Gates: “Well, he’s dead, so...”

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2 years

Early results are the San Francisco school board is going to be recalled and it’s not going to be close.

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Wow, EMILY's List says that it will be "unable to endorse" Kyrsten Sinema moving forward because of her position on voting rights.

EMILYs List

@emilyslist

2 years

An update from our President @LaphonzaB on voting rights

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9 months

🚨🚨Huge money-in-politics news. The Southern District of New York is dropping its federal prosecution of Sam Bankman-Fried on campaign-finance charges, per new letter from prosecutors. “The Government does not intend to proceed to trial on the campaign contributions count.”…

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Bill Gates on his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein: "I made a mistake in judgment that I thought that those discussions would lead, literally, to billions of dollars to global health." "And I gave him some benefit by the association. So I made a doubly wrong mistake there."

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Peter Thiel, kicking things off at Stanford's Academic Freedom conference, says the "antonym of diversity" is "university."

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Bill Gates on why he doesn't spend his billions on U.S. elections: "I choose not to participate in large political donations. There are times it might feel tempting to do so. And there are other people who choose to do so. But I just don't want to grab that gigantic mega-phone."

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New memo just released from the Koch network with DeSantis dropping out. “Despite what some media outlets report, our polling consistently shows Donald Trump loses to Joe Biden in the states that will decide the election in November.”

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A Silicon Valley wealth manager to me on the phone just now, reflecting on the mega-rich: "If they put as much effort into philanthropy as they did into tax avoidance, the world would be a much better place."

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I don’t remember who said this earlier today — and so I am stealing their point — but Elon’s view of politics is the POV anyone would have if you only consumed political discourse through … Twitter.

Elon Musk

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@waitbutwhy I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists

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News: MacKenzie Bezos, one of the wealthiest women in the world, has signed The Giving Pledge. Her ex-husband, the richest person in the world, has conspicuously and repeatedly declined to do the same.

MacKenzie Bezos signed the philanthropic commitment her ex-husband spurned

Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, has long been criticized for not signing the Giving Pledge.

www.vox.com

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Ted Cruz at Gridiron: “Lindsey Graham told me just the other day that if I was murdered on the Senate Floor, still no one would vote to convict the assailant, but at least Jeff Flake would tweet that he felt bad about it.”

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“The former El Paso Congressman will make the announcement on Thursday morning, but he confirmed via text to KTSM Wednesday afternoon that he is seeking the Democratic nomination.“

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4 years

Bill Gates says he's open to taxing philanthropic gifts to private foundations.

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Bill Gates says "targeting should not be allowed" on political ads. But he also says that corporations should not be fact-checking political ads. "No private company can or should make those judgments."

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SCOOP — The LATEST in the political fallout from Sam Bankman-Fried's implosion. Sean McElwee is leaving Data for Progress after his staff confronted him in a no-confidence vote in a conference call ten days ago. McElwee to exit by end of year.

An S.B.F. Ally in the Barrel

Sean McElwee, the ur-connected political operative, is the latest to get singed by the FTX scandal following a no-confidence vote at Data for Progress. His exit speaks volumes, not only about Sam...

puck.news

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I wrote earlier today that there's a huge question over whether SBF will be able to continue funding media going forward. Grants have gone to: — ProPublica — Vox — The Intercept — Semafor — The Law and Justice Journalism Project — A podcast

The S.B.F. Pandemic

The Bankman-Fried industrial complex is imploding, with massive turmoil brewing for the donor who was seen as the Democratic Party’s next great hope. Does all of that money just disappear?

puck.news

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1 year

New: Grants from Sam Bankman-Fried's foundation to ProPublica are on hold. Here's the email from ProPublica president Robin Sparkman to staff this afternoon.

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Gates says it's "tricky" to recruit billionaires to sign The Giving Pledge -- especially so overseas -- because need to vet them. "I feel bad: We probably will at some point accept someone into the Giving Pledge and it will turn out that their fortune is a disreputable fortune."

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4 years

Gates is joking here, he says. Worth nothing that he is far more willing than most billionaires to say the pay should pay more taxes. He's for a higher estate tax and says more tax revenue needed. But he calls for a "middle ground" and says he worries about ~~too~~ high taxes.

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3 years

This is obviously a sad and personal story. But given that Bill and Melinda Gates co-run one of the — if not THE — world’s most powerful and most venerated philanthropies, this is a massive story with enormous implications for the public at large.

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5 months

“Go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself.” Elon Musk to advertisers threatening to boycott. Just now. “G-F-Y.”

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4 years

Bill Gates says he's working on a book about climate change due out next summer.

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Behold, a real job posting for an executive assistant position at a VC firm.

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🚨🚨🚨 Jack Dorsey is committing one BILLION dollars to coronavirus efforts.

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I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here:

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NEWS — Eric Levine, a prominent GOP fundraiser in New York for Nikki Haley who pledged to never vote for Trump after Jan. 6, just sent an email to his network that I have seen. "Due to a dramatic change in circumstances ... I have decided I will vote for Trump in November."…

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2 years

Behold, here is the $125 million donation from George Soros to his super PAC.

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8 years

Best part of the Trump interview, hands down: O'Reilly: "You gain currency coming on here." Trump: "I do?"

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5 years

Stacey Abrams on her #SOTU response: “I’m going to hydrate first. That’s very important.”

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3 years

Reporters don't usually cover divorces. It's a private matter. But the fact is that this is an earthquake moment for the nonprofit sector. Bill and Melinda Gates spend $5 billion a year around the world. What happens to that warchest is a public matter in the public interest.

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I was in the courtroom when Sam Bankman-Fried was just ordered to jail. The reaction was downright funereal. Approached by three U.S. Marshalls, Sam took off his jacket, tie, shoes and emptied his pockets. His mom broke down in tears. Press were escorted out before the cuffs.

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Ted Cruz now has five former 2016 rivals backing his campaign: Carly Fiorina Jeb Bush Lindsey Graham Rick Perry Scott Walker

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To recap the last few days: — Jeff Bezos suggested Elon Musk is a pawn of Communist China — Bill Gates texted Elon Musk for philanthropic money and Elon ghosted him — Elon Musk said Bill Gates can get rid of your boner

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Bill Gates: "You really want the incentive system to be there, and you can go a long ways without threatening that."

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Exclusive — Tech billionaire ERIC SCHMIDT has applied to become a citizen of CYPRUS. The former Google CEO, one of America’s richest people, is taking advantage of one of the world’s most controversial “passport-for-sale” programs. We have the details.

Exclusive: The former CEO of Google has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

Eric Schmidt is effectively buying a passport that he can use to enter the European Union.

www.vox.com

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I made this point on @brianstelter earlier today, but the billionaire space race story is the same story as the ProPublica tax returns story. To cover the amazing feats of the uber-wealthy while ignoring the system that creates the uber-wealthy misses the forest for the trees.

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Beto O’Rourke is just confirming his presidential run by texting local TV?

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Not Bill Gates's finest television performance on a question he's been asked multiple times before.

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A bunch of Hollywood types are throwing a fundraiser next month for @BetoORourke in Los Angeles. Rob Reiner, Ted Boutros, and host @JamesCostos . Tickets from $2,500 to $25,000. #TxGov

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Here’s Bill Gates on: — Meeting with Elizabeth Warren — Meeting with Jeffrey Epstein — Taxing billionaire philanthropy — Wealth taxes

Bill Gates doubts whether Elizabeth Warren is "open-minded" enough to meet with him

Gates tried to split the difference in the conversation around Big Philanthropy and Big Government.

www.vox.com

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Who should handle Russia investigation? Special prosecutor: 65% Congress: 32% Even 43% of Republicans want one.

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spotted at a Walgreens in SF

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NEW — Last week, one of Mark Zuckerberg’s engineers asked him to resign as Facebook CEO. But the engineer didn't even work for Facebook. They work for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, his philanthropy. We go deep on the unrest at Zuckerberg’s charity.

Working for Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy isn’t always easy since it means working for Mark...

Inside the unrest at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

www.vox.com

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New: @JoeBiden is attending a virtual fundraiser on April 16 hosted by Silicon Valley venture capitalist @JedKatz , per new invitation. Costs $2,800 a person to attend. Those who raise $25,000 get to attend a "pre-event VIP Clutch."

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Ted Cruz is debating Bernie Sanders next Tuesday on CNN on Obamacare.

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3 years

This website is broken. First tweet that sent Twitter into overdrive — 5,000 RTs Second tweet with massive clarification “update” — 54 RTs

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New — Here are the two big donors to the super PAC behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: 1. Timothy Mellon, the GOP mega-donor and Gilded Age scion, who put $5 million in 2. Gavin De Becker, the security consultant whose most famous client is Jeff Bezos, who donated $4.5 million

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Holy shit, Silicon Valley's Karla Jurvetson gave $14.6 million to Elizabeth Warren's super PAC last month. That's an enormous amount of money.

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7 years

"The actions would amount to the strongest American response ever taken to a state-sponsored cyberattack."

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3 years

seeing a lot of this on the hometown TL

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Jeff Bezos until like a year ago was a very careful commentator on politics and culture. He basically didn’t do it. Now he’s weighing in on tons of stuff all the time. Just a dude tweeting his opinions on the daily.

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The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet, or maybe they need to form a new Non Sequitur Board instead. Raising corp taxes is fine to discuss. Taming inflation is critical to discuss. Mushing them together is just misdirection.

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Good morning -- I've spent the last few weeks diving into the world of shady foreign money in Silicon Valley. "You thought you’re in business. You’re actually in politics.” Startups and VCs can no longer plead ignorance. Here is what we've learned:

Silicon Valley is awash in Chinese and Saudi cash — and no one is paying attention (except Trump)

A tough, new enforcement regime is becoming a geopolitical minefield for venture capitalists and startups.

www.vox.com

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3 years

the details didn't come next week

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Details next week

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JFC, I swear to God … the news in the SBF case only happens when I’m on vacation and I have to break my no-tweeting rule. Anyway, Switzerland is cool.

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4 years

Huh! Facebook’s former Chief Marketing Officer, Gary Briggs, has joined Michael Bloomberg’s campaign as Digital Director.

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Only 15% of Ron DeSantis’s second-quarter fundraising is from small donors. 🚩🚩

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NEW FEC F3P DESANTIS, RON (REP) #POTUS RCPT $20,111,729 EXPN $7,872,301 COH $12,239,428

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NEWS — Silicon Valley megadonors like Dustin Moskovitz have quietly unleashed a $100 million anti-Trump TV campaign. It's a massive, last-minute play that is totally under the radar. The super PAC has raised $65 million in 45 days. Exclusive here —>

Silicon Valley megadonors are unleashing a last-minute, $100 million barrage of ads against Trump

Facebook billionaire co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has put more than $20 million into a little-known Democratic super PAC that is spending big.

www.vox.com

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@BrianSlodysko Worth noting that for the Buttigieg campaign's stated commitment to transparency, "co-host dinners" like this are not open to the pool reporter assigned to cover the fundraiser. Reporters only get to see "the entirety of Pete’s remarks and Q&A at the event."

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Bernie fundraising email: "Can you help Bernie match Pete's wine cave fundraiser?" "We do need your help to fight back against the wine cave money flooding into this race to stop us." Big Wine Cave.

Adam Kelsey

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. @BernieSanders is now fundraising off of the @PeteButtigieg “wine cave” fundraiser.

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This presumably means Haim Saban is comfortable with Elizabeth Warren, who similarly at times demagogues billionaires.

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8 years

Don't look now but Clinton is within the margin of error in the perennial battleground of Texas.

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This is a very bad look for ACRONYM — the Democratic super PAC that launched Shadow. That super PAC is very popular in...Silicon Valley.

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Three different sources say a firm called "Shadow" developed the Iowa Dem caucus app. They haven't responded to comment, neither has Iowa Dem Party. The firm was paid by both Nevada & Iowa Democratic Party, disclosures show. Also by Mayor Pete's campaign.

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SCOOP — @RepGallagher has told people that he is planning to take a job at Palantir, I'm told by two sources. The Wisconsin GOP anti-China hawk announced today that he is leaving Congress next month. May not be 100% done, but that's what he has told people he is doing next.

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@BrianSlodysko @Princeton Bernie campaign manager on these Buttigieg fundraiser photos —>

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Not $18 dollar donors?

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Jeff Bezos said on Instagram this February that he’d “begin issuing grants this summer” from the $10 billion he set aside to tackle climate change. We haven’t heard of any grants yet — really, zero details about this at all — and the last day of summer is technically Tuesday.

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Trump: "This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."

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I found Bill Gates' connection between Jeffrey Epstein and future billionaires that he could legitimize to be very...strange?

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gonna go out on a real limb here but maybe just maybe your philanthropy shouldn't insulate you from criticism about your impact on democracy

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Mark Zuckerberg has pledged 99 percent of his worth to charity and still is widely disliked. Think about that. He might have the worst PR team in history.

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alright which one of you is this

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Mike Moritz, the Sequoia billionaire who donated $25 million and helped broker the summer school arrangement, told Recode that he was trying to help local schoolchildren “and nothing beyond that.”

How a $25 million donation to help students got ensnared in politics

San Francisco is once again fighting over billionaires’ philanthropic power.

www.vox.com

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This is an amazing leak ... but also not terribly surprising? 1. Billionaires don’t make their money off of income. 2. Billionaires have access to the world’s savviest accountants and lawyers. I primarily want to know how ProPublica got the data!

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Bill Gates: "It really is tragic that the economic effects of this is really dramatic. Nothing like this has ever happened to the economy in our lifetimes" But "that's more of a reversible thing than bringing people back to life."

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🚀 🚀 Friends, time for Some Personal News: After four wonderful years at Recode, I am pumped to help launch a new media company later this year. Money in politics. Philanthropy. Billionaires. More to come, but for now — smash that subscribe button:

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Can't believe they chose @garrytan , the founder of Palantir and a tech bro with a net worth of $400 billion, to be the new head of YC.

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4 years

Why is it harder for Bill Gates to assess the corruption of billionaires who make their money overseas than it is of those who make their money in the USA? And who is to say that some of the current, American singers of the Giving Pledge aren’t corrupt?

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Teddy Schleifer

@teddyschleifer

10 months

New frontiers in campaign fundraising — People supporting Vivek Ramaswamy can take a 10% cut on the money they raise for his campaign!

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Teddy Schleifer

@teddyschleifer

6 years

This is how a speaker at an upcoming conference is described

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Teddy Schleifer

@teddyschleifer

1 year

Strange Bedfellows Alert — @DavidSacks is doing a fundraising dinner for @RoKhanna later this month, per invite. Tickets from $3,300 to $13,200.

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Teddy Schleifer

@teddyschleifer

2 years

Uh, holy shit, J.B. Pritzker put a staggering $24 million of his own money into the Democratic Governors Association last quarter, per their 527 filing. The group raised $52 million total in Q2. So almost half of that came from Pritzker. #ILGOV

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Teddy Schleifer

@teddyschleifer

4 months

Awful, and a troubling sign for independent journalism about powerful people.

Alexandra Bruell

@alexbruell

4 months

Axel Springer said it's conducting a review of the "motivation and the process leading up to the reporting" around Business Insider stories alleging plagiarism by Bill Ackman's wife Neri Oxman, following backlash from Ackman and others.

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Teddy Schleifer

@teddyschleifer

8 years

Ted Cruz: "If a Republican cannot carry the state of Utah, which Donald Trump cannot, you are looking at a Mondale-level bloodbath."

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Teddy Schleifer

@teddyschleifer

4 years

Bernie Sanders comes out swinging on Apple’s housing announcement. “Apple is the latest tech industry tax evader that has portrayed its entry into the housing business as an act of philanthropic altruism.”

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Teddy Schleifer

@teddyschleifer

4 years

NEW — Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan have responded to the 270+ scientists at the @ChanZuckerberg Initiative who called on Zuckerberg to curb misinformation. Zuckerberg says he and Chan are "deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump’s divisive and incendiary rhetoric."

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Teddy Schleifer

@teddyschleifer

8 years

Paul Ryan when told of Trump's comments on Sadaam Hussein tonight: "He was one of the 20th century’s most evil people."

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