Google’s luckiest guy in the world
That’s how Larry Brilliant describes himself in The Daily Telegraph video interview below. Why? Brilliant is the guy given the task of deciding how to spend the approximately $1.9 billion (”around one percent of the company’s equity plus one percent of annual profits… as well as employee time”) that Google’s founders are donating to philanthropy, according to the British newspaper.
A related article is here (”Larry Brilliant, of Google.org: Internet ‘is pandemic early warning system’” by Roger Highfield, Science Editor, Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 30, 2008).
According to a Google press release (2006), Brilliant holds a Masters in Public Health (MPH) and an MD. , and he is founder and director of The Seva Foundation. He also is a Policy Advisory Council Member at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, and a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of Kleiner-Perkin’s Pandemic and Bio-Defense Fund.
In both the article and the video, Brilliant discusses in detail some of the philanthropic projects Google.org is now funding.
