List of Technology Bosses Who Spent Funds Help Fight Corona Virus
The founders of technology companies in the world helped fight the corona virus (COVID-19). They provide assistance to victims of the corona virus as well as vaccine research.
Not only that, some of them also donated corona virus kits to masks for countries with an increasing number of cases of corona virus. The following is a list of technology bosses who have spent funds to help fight the corona virus.
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma donated masks, corona virus test kits and protective clothing to several countries in Southeast Asia. These countries are Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. The number of masks reached 2 million and 150 thousand COVID-19 test kits.
Donations were channeled through the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation. Previously, Jack Ma has also donated one million masks to the United States (US) and 500 thousand corona virus test kits (COVID-19).
Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey promised $ 1 Billion or approximately shares in Square Inc. to donate the corona virus. He revealed that his steps were expected to be able to inspire others to do the same.
However to make the transfer of money requires quite a long time. According to a spokesman for Square Inc., it can take several quarters or even years.
So far, USD100 thousand has been spent to help distribute food for people affected by the corona virus (COVID-19) through the America's Food Fund.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates contributed donations of USD100 million for the corona virus.
The donation was poured to accelerate the treatment of corona virus. Such as research, treatment, and search for vaccines from the corona virus.
This contribution from Microsoft's founder is part of a funding budget organized by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO itself is targeting a figure of USD675 million in combating the spread of the disease.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg helped Bill Gates find the corona virus vaccine. Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated USD25 million to accelerate the development of vaccines and COVID-19 treatments and to collaborate with the Gates Foundation.
Mark Zuckerberg said, the use of drugs that have been there for a while, is the most effective way to fight Covid-19. Of course, coupled with efforts to find a more effective vaccine.
Amazon's founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, provided assistance of around $ 100 million to fight the corona virus. The assistance was channeled through Feeding America, a national food bank non-profit organization in the United States.
The agency was having difficulty obtaining excess restaurant food leftovers during the COVID-19 pandemic because many restaurants in the United States were closed.
Although I believe that all these donations hide much more than good faith, they are a method of uniting unity among so many conflicts and shedding light on the many problems we have in the world. I just wish that it was not necessary that there were such serious problems for them to donate, but that they were common and normal acts.