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Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood says he'll give away more than half his wealth — starting with $8 million in charitable donations — within the next five years.

Atwood, the co-founder of computer programing platform Stack Overflow — which was acquired by global investment group Prosus for $1.8 billion in 2021 — plans to give away more than half his wealth within the next five years, he wrote in a blog post last week. The Stack Overflow co-founder's pledge differs largely in its timeline: By contrast, Buffett has stated his intention to task his three children with gradually distributing 99.5% of his wealth philanthropically upon his death. "MacKenzie Scott is the most exemplary philanthropist in the country now," Benjamin Soskis, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, told CNBC Make It in 2022.

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