Zuckerberg donates to competitor
by Mike, posted on May 28, 2010
In the business world, a business isn’t too likely to donate to its competitor, but that’s exactly what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did when he donated to Diaspora, a startup company that plans to have a website similar in function to Facebook.
Although some may argue that he did it to try to repair his tarnished public image, Zuckerberg claims that he donated because “a little of myself in” the people starting the company, which aims to give a user complete and total control over their content, which they may not always have with Facebook, at least with current privacy controls.
Zuckerberg’s motives are known only to him, but it’s rather interesting to see any CEO donate money to a company that may one day be more successful than his.
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