This turnaround, described as “Very difficult” By the couple, underlines the risks of depending on the rich private donors, as is the case of this Californian establishment.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) refused to communicate on the reasons for the abandonment of the project. According to the Washington Post, the philanthropic company withdraws from initiatives relating to social and political issues. As for Chan, she would have “Disturbed from school in recent years”.
But who is this philanthropic pediatrician of Sino-Vietnamese origin? Here are some elements of portrait of the one that has accompanied the tech giant since its beginnings.
They have been sharing their lives for over 20 years. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan meet during a party in Harvard, in 2003. There is no question of a love at first sight worthy of a romantic film, since Priscilla will tell the New Yorker in 2010 about their meeting: “He was a bit cheeky, a bit apart“But the young woman still exceeds her first impressions and agrees to see Mark again, before falling in love.
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Different paths …
It must be said that everything opposes the two lovebirds. He is the son of a dentist and a psychiatrist, while she came from a family of Sino-Vietnamese refugees who will accumulate odd jobs after arriving in the United States by boat in 1978. Priscilla is the first of his family to join university.
In 2004, Mark Lance Thefacebook, the first version of the famous social network with a blue and white logo. For his part, Priscilla first studies biology at Harvard before turning to medicine at the University of California. In 2012, then aged 26, she officially became a pediatrician.
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… Before a common future
On May 19 of the same year, the couple organized their surprise wedding in front of a hundred guests, pretending to be a party for the young woman’s diploma, who landed then … in a white dress.
Three years later, in 2015, the couple are still united but this time in the world of entrepreneurship. The Zuckerberg-Chan thus create Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), whose “objective is, among other things, to eradicate all diseases by the end of the century”, explains Le Figaro. As happiness never arrives alone, Mark and Priscilla welcome their first child, Maxima, the same year, followed by a second girl named August in 2017 and Aurelia in 2023.
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