The yin to his yang: Priscilla Chan opens up about Mark Zuckerberg – husband, non-profit partner and Facebook founder – and why she hated Harvard
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My interview with Priscilla Chan comes in yet another bad week for her husband’s company. Facebook, the social network Mark Zuckerberg founded when he and Chan were students at Harvard together, has been headline news, and not in a good way.
I keep expecting Chan to cancel, but she doesn’t. Instead, her office asks me to avoid asking questions about Facebook, because she cannot answer on behalf of her husband’s business.
I’m meeting Chan in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, not far from the couple’s home in Palo Alto, in the shiny new Redwood City headquarters of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Through CZI, Chan and her husband plan to give away 99 per cent of their wealth. Given they are the largest shareholders in a trillion-dollar company, that is a lot of money.

Decorated with brightly coloured murals, paintings by local artists and screens flashing up stories of inspiring women, the offices are reminiscent of a well-funded primary school.
