Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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| Born |
Laura Arrillaga Palo Alto, California |
| Education | BA, MA in Art History, Stanford University MA in Education, Stanford School of Education MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
| Occupation | Philanthropist, educator, entrepreneur, author |
| Spouse(s) | Marc Andreessen (m. 2006) |
| Children | John |
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is an American philanthropist, philanthropy educator, entrepreneur, author, and wife of Silicon Valley venture capitalist/internet entrepreneur Marc Andreessen.
She is the founder and president of the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation (LAAF), a private operating foundation that serves as a philanthropic "innovation lab", and is the author of Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World. Arrillaga-Andreessen also founded the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2), a venture philanthropy fund. She is the founder and chairman of Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). Arrillaga-Andreessen also serves as president of the Marc and Laura Andreessen Foundation and teaches four philanthropy courses at Stanford University.
Arrillaga-Andreessen advises Silicon Valley technology leaders, such as Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, on their philanthropic efforts. She advised Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in their $100 million gift to education in Newark, New Jersey, in 2010. Arrillaga-Andreessen helped Zuckerberg and Chan "create a framework of how to evaluate different opportunities and how to choose the ones that were actually meaningful to us", Chan said. Arrillaga-Andreessen persuaded Andreessen Horowitz's six partners to donate 50 percent of their income to charity, which could cumulatively be in the billions of dollars.
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and people in their 40s and younger are becoming more involved in philanthropy.
Arrillaga-Andreessen is the one persuading this new generation of tech tycoons to give their riches away. Look behind several of the most meaningful philanthropic gestures of recent years and you'll find her pulling the strings. (Vogue)
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