Charities are trying to lure the Silicon Valley cash. They need to talk about bigger, buzzier ideas when they're trying to get donations from the tech bros. Sometimes it's easier to give a hundred million if you're one of these tech bros than one million. It's also helpful for a charity just to be comfortable with tech culture.
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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