Jeff Skoll Featured in New York Times Article About Philanthropy
December 19, 2011 by Sally Farhat KassabSunday’s New York Times featured two stories about philanthropy in Silicon Valley. Both mentioned the Skoll Foundation, and one included an interview with Jeff Skoll. Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, who we wrote about recently, was the focus of the print article. An excerpt from the New York Times:
“The newest generation of entrepreneurs is more philanthropic while they are young, thanks largely to Ms. Arrillaga-Andreessen’s work, said Jeff Skoll, eBay’s first president and the founder of the Skoll Foundation. ‘The old thinking that you work, then you retire, then you start your foundation was still very much in effect,’ Mr. Skoll said of the last tech boom. ‘I think the concept of younger people giving while living has come a lot more to fruition in recent years.’”
Read the rest: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/could-silicon-valley-rethink-philanthropy/