Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios View Post
As I understand it, the gift consists of two chunks of $500M in shares in FaceBook. We're talking funny money here.

Still I suppose the charity can afford to employ someone who is sufficiently familiar with that sort of thing to convert it into actual cash flow.
It's not funny money. Where does it say that FaceBook is not easily traded on the stock exchange and liquidated into cash?