Silicon Valley Scion Aims to 'Reboot' Tech-Sector Giving - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Silicon Valley Scion Aims to 'Reboot' Tech-Sector Giving - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Silicon Valley Scion Aims to ‘Reboot’ Tech-Sector Giving

December 19, 2011, 10:24 am

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, a child of Silicon Valley who married one of its most successful entrepreneurs, is leading efforts to reshape the high-tech sector as a major philanthropic force, The New York Times writes in a profile

The wife of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and the daughter of John Arrillaga Sr., the property developer credited with transforming a patch of California farmland into the world’s technology hub, Ms. Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches a class in strategic philanthropy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has advised Facebook founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz and Hewlett-Packard chief Meg Whitman on giving.