Young tech titans of today are changing the vehicles for their giving as well. Mackenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, has dished out over $14 billion since 2019. She hired consulting firms to crunch the numbers and pick worthy recipients.
Charitable giving is being disrupted by the same youthful tech folk who got rich disrupting other sectors: these days it is fast, data-driven and bureaucracy-light. We meet a new class of investors who trade shares from behind bars. And reflecting on the life of Maya Widmaier-Picasso, who spent her childhood painting alongside her father, becoming an expert on his work.
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