Honey's Brinker Beehive--Not a Fan Club: Re: Are Brinker & Gates honest?? KGO Charity

» Kirk - Re: Are Brinker & Gates honest?? KGO Charity

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In response to Is Brinker a Philanthropist? posted by pete2214:

pete2214: Gates honest?? I don't know if you know the history of DOS and windows (aka mac)?

Hi Pete. Oh yeah, I'm aware!

I believe everyone at Google considers themselves in mortal combat with the evil empire from the North. Many of the VCs and smaller software companies in the Silicon Valley think Microsoft was worse than the Robber Barons who founded Leland Stanford University out of guilt and remorse and Rockefeller of Standard Oil fame all put together.

Some of us find it quite ironic that the only companies hated more in the Silicon Valley than Brinker’s only good stock pick in fifteen years are the tobacco companies!

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allancoleman: i am giving bob brinker credit for part of the $13.5M that KGO has raised and i'm sure the radio station would too

I am in full agreement.

I read he had 1,000 people donate $50 to hear him speak. If we assume the hotel donated the room he used to speak, then Brinker HELPED raise $50,000 of the $13.5M KGO raised.

I heard Len Tillan, the lawyer with a very entertaining show that follows Brinker's show, auctioned off lunches much like Warren Buffett auctions off a luncheon with him for charity. It was amazing how much people were paying to have lunch with Len. I Heard Len got some $100,000 from listeners to eat with him so he donated more time to try and break that record. I don't recall the details, but it was simply amazing. There are some very generous people in San Francisco that really got behind the effort.

-- posted by Kirk