Twitter CEO Donates $1 Billion To Help Fight COVID-19.

Founder of social media application – Twitter, Jack Dorsey has donated $1bn of Square shares to a charitable fund, called Start Small, to “fund global COVID-19 relief”. He said the donation was equivalent to about 28% of his wealth.

He noted that after the coronavirus pandemic is over, he would focus more on providing good health and education systems for the girl-child. Below is a tweet of his statement:

I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: https://t.co/hVkUczDQmz

— jack (@jack) April 7, 2020