https://minutesof.com/on/philanthropy/ Everyone on the record about philanthropy: 15 verbatim quotes from 3 people, December 2020 to September 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and… en Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:41:18 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/1d0c0814-b227-4196-8429-5f1dcc06875a/ https://minutesof.com/q/1d0c0814-b227-4196-8429-5f1dcc06875a/ “The interesting thing that's gonna happen post the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs is if you think about the amount of charitable giving or DAFs that are going to be funded by both of these two IPOs, it's going to be north of $500,000,000,000 between the two companies, and it could be even more than that.” — Chamath Palihapitiya, All-In Podcast Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:10:00 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/fe4b403e-f197-416c-a938-03fd2deeb92c/ https://minutesof.com/q/fe4b403e-f197-416c-a938-03fd2deeb92c/ “Gwen Shotwell's gift this morning, an extraordinary gift. 2,000,000 shares of SpaceX to 2,000,000 kids that they'll hold in their accounts over the course of the the next ten to to twenty years.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:55:46 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/2a1deb84-0bc5-45f3-a928-b6861e293c85/ https://minutesof.com/q/2a1deb84-0bc5-45f3-a928-b6861e293c85/ “The Trump administration has not done this. I hope they don't go down this path. I don't think they're going to go down this path.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:07:21 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/a74bd47c-3765-46ee-a57b-61df08791001/ https://minutesof.com/q/a74bd47c-3765-46ee-a57b-61df08791001/ “Now imagine that instead he could just give a share of Berkshire Hathaway to every child in America and let that compound for the last twenty years.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:07:21 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/b8adfca0-cd37-4f15-b377-8f8e9e8b3b18/ https://minutesof.com/q/b8adfca0-cd37-4f15-b377-8f8e9e8b3b18/ “Of course, everybody's familiar with the $6,250,000,000 gift from the Dells, but we have Ray Dalio in Connecticut, me in Indiana, Harold Hammond in Oklahoma.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:07:21 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/4aa7b82e-1b1e-435d-a3f9-4bc41a933646/ https://minutesof.com/q/4aa7b82e-1b1e-435d-a3f9-4bc41a933646/ “And the momentum we have around this is totally extraordinary. Every company that is signing up to add money to the accounts of of of the kids, of their employees, companies like Micron, Sanjay announced this week, $250,000,000 going to a million kids in the communities they serve.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:07:21 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/f062d42e-198a-4b50-8295-eca601350242/ https://minutesof.com/q/f062d42e-198a-4b50-8295-eca601350242/ “Think about the transformational effect of that. So we now have the ability to have large scale direct philanthropy, no middleman in the middle taking a rake of those proceeds” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:39:39 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/a254884b-f762-480c-b560-1ab6a0814fc0/ https://minutesof.com/q/a254884b-f762-480c-b560-1ab6a0814fc0/ “Think about the transformational effect of that. So we now have the ability to have large scale direct philanthropy,” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:39:39 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/fc83b8a7-09fb-4d7f-8d51-79820bbdb09e/ https://minutesof.com/q/fc83b8a7-09fb-4d7f-8d51-79820bbdb09e/ “And I can tell you, I have billions and billions of announcements in queue for the kids. This is bonus dollars” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:39:39 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/5f34e446-d057-4b98-a104-f0e9ec69d552/ https://minutesof.com/q/5f34e446-d057-4b98-a104-f0e9ec69d552/ “Companies like Micron, Sanjay announced this week, $250,000,000 going to a million kids in the communities they serve. Of course, everybody's familiar with the $6,250,000,000 gift from the Dells,” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:39:39 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/870ce984-d066-4d59-85ee-865df607acad/ https://minutesof.com/q/870ce984-d066-4d59-85ee-865df607acad/ “Michael's contribution is for the ZIP codes where the median income is a $150,000 or less. So I think this is gonna be plenty progressive.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:01:23 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/2b858ff2-4727-4f45-b591-a5e8d4bfa311/ https://minutesof.com/q/2b858ff2-4727-4f45-b591-a5e8d4bfa311/ “A key component of their announcement, Ed, was that their 6,250,000,000 is only going to families that live in zip codes where the average income is less than $150,000” — Brad Gerstner, Prof G Markets Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:00:48 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/ebba19ce-1d3d-477f-8bce-fa3e603a5954/ https://minutesof.com/q/ebba19ce-1d3d-477f-8bce-fa3e603a5954/ “They would invest it in a drawdown trust. They would match every kid in the state of Texas whose family earns under $200,000 for the lifetime of that account.” — Brad Gerstner, Milken Institute Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:55:21 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/37b54c29-0cb5-4239-be9b-39603847d7ee/ https://minutesof.com/q/37b54c29-0cb5-4239-be9b-39603847d7ee/ “I've heard from several of these folks who have upwards of a $100,000,000,000 that they could take $10,000,000,000, put it in a drawdown trust in their state, for example, invest in the S and P 500, and match for all the kids of the families who earn, let's call it, under a $150,000.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:11:58 +0000 philanthropy https://minutesof.com/q/34bfe8f1-6be3-4561-be53-2f82d95ffa8d/ https://minutesof.com/q/34bfe8f1-6be3-4561-be53-2f82d95ffa8d/ “UJA has allocated more than $55,000,000 in response to the pandemic, feeding families, helping people find employment, sustaining the Jewish community's core institutions, providing dignified Jewish burials and so much more.” — Marc Rowan, The LionTree Podcast Tue, 01 Dec 2020 19:23:32 +0000 philanthropy