He may be one of the worlds youngest billionaires and has just recently became a father but Mark Zuckerberg along with his wife Priscilla Chan have revealed that they will be putting 99% of their Facebook shares in to charity.
It us believed that happy new parents wrote a letter to their daughter Max, that they would be pumping 99% of their shares in the social media giant (believed to be worth about $45billion) into the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Zuckerberg released a brief statement explaining his and his wife’s decision to give away their hefty fortune saying: “The aim of the initiative is advancing human potential and promoting equality, by providing money for researchers who are studying how to prevent disease, those working at eliminating poverty and hunger, building welcoming and inclusive communities” and “empowering underrepresented minorities.”