From Founder to Philanthropist with David Goldberg
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How a Near-death Experience Launched a $53M Venture Fund
This week I talked to David Goldberg, who shifted his focus to making a global impact after achieving financial success as a founder. As the founder of Founders Pledge, he has deployed over $1.3B toward impactful causes, making it one of the most innovative nonprofit organizations for founders, and launched a venture fund following a scary moment.
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ABOUT DAVID GOLDBERG
David Goldberg is the co-founder and CEO of Founders Pledge, a global nonprofit that empowers entrepreneurs to commit a portion of their exits to high-impact philanthropy. Under his leadership, the organization has grown to over 2,000 members across 40 countries, with nearly $11 billion pledged and $1.3 billion deployed to transformative causes. Driven by a mission to simplify and amplify meaningful change, David transitioned from a diverse commercial background to the nonprofit sector, blending his expertise in finance, startups, and academia.
Before Founders Pledge, David gained experience as a mortgage and investment banker and launched the secondary marketing department at Mortgage Capital Associates. A serial entrepreneur, he founded a boutique real estate firm in Germany and managed Urban Motion. He is a graduate of UCLA and the University of Cambridge, where he deepened his understanding of systems driving impactful change. Inspired by the desire to make philanthropy accessible, David has built a community where founders can harness their success to improve the world.
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