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Jeff Skoll, as the first full-time employee and first President of eBay, Jeff developed the company’s inaugural business plan and led its successful initial public offering. eBay has since become the world’s largest on-line marketplace, giving hundreds of millions of buyers and sellers the oppor- tunity to connect and become successful online entrepreneurs. Others to sign their names to the pledge are; Charles Bronfman and Edgar Bronfman, both Bronfmans held various positions in Seagrams. Margaret and Sylvan Adams, since 1992 Sylvan Adams has served as president and CEO of Iberville Developments, one of Canada’s largest real estate development companies. The firm was founded by his father, Marcel Adams, a Romanian-born Holocaust survivor who immi- grated to Canada in 1951. Some notable Canadians missing from the list are, media giant, David Thompson,who istherichestCanadianwith$26.4billionfollowedbygrocery giant GalenWeston, the owner of Loblaws, at $9.3 billion andGarrett Camp, cofounder and chairman of Uber Technologies Inc. at $6.2 billion. The spirit of The Giving Pledge is best proclaimed in a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt. In his 1937 inaugural address he said “the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
Just as investors have long paid close attention to how Buffett invests his money, donors today ought to mimic how he gives it away as well.
If you would like more information on The Giving Pledge or to learn more about those who have signed the pledge, go to http://givingpledge.org.
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