Mark Zuckerberg says most people in Silicon Valley have one of two reactions to his $3 billion pledge to end disease

pulse 18:27 - 13 September 2018

In 2016, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pledged to donate $3 billion to "cure all disease." In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Zuckerberg said the reception he's received is one of two things, and neither is positive. But that hasn't deterred him.

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In 2016, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan made a significant step toward humankind: Announcing that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) will donate $3 billion to fund a plan to "cure all disease."

According to Chan, a the goal is not for no one to ever get sick, but to drastically reduce the frequency and severity of global disease.

In the two years since, Zuckerberg has soaked up a range of criticism and response to this ambitious objective. In a recent in-depth interview with the The New Yorker, Zuckerberg said people in Silicon Valley react in one of two ways: