The two had their first-ever joint interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning.
The two announced, during their joint interview that they will steer 99% of their wealth (mostly in the form of Facebook stock) to charity through their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI).
The letter announcing the initiative came out a few days after the couple welcomed their first daughter, Max. Zuckerberg admitted to working on while his wife was in labour and he said “in retrospect” it was “not my best thing”.
They shared that through their foundation, they will award millions of dollars that will go to eliminating all disease and improving equity in education.
Zuckerberg said: “There are a lot of philanthropies that try to bring capital, right? And help fund important work. But there aren’t that many that have the capability to build tools to empower different folks who are on the front lines”.
“Teachers, doctors, scientists — we don’t have the right tools to do that. And Mark has such incredible experience of building tools,” Chan added.
Replying Gayle’s question on how they plan to “eliminate all disease,” Zuckerberg replied:
“Well, we’re not going to do that ourselves, but… we do think that it will be possible to cure, prevent, or be able to manage all diseases by the end of this century”.
