Sandra Thompson Marilou and Mark Hamill The Kresge Foundation Biden Victory Fund, meanwhile, took in $620,600 each from tech entrepreneur Jeff Lawson and his wife, Erica, along with a group of other influential left-leaning donors. Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), The Boeing Company* Marc Merrill, co-founder of Riot Games, which was acquired by China's Tencent in 2011, has contributed over $1 million to Unite America, a group that supports congressional candidates in both parties. Besides Gates and Buffett, that includes Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and the entrepreneur and politician Michael Bloomberg. Susan and Jay Mall Paula and Edward Hughes Vinton Cerf and Sigrid Cerf Hagerty Altenbernd Family Charitable Fund* Service Station Foundation Leaders should create an environment where it's okay to experiment and fail, he said. Brett J. Hart and Dontrey Britt-Hart* Gerica | Shipping Wiki | Fandom Fundraising at the Obama Foundation - Obama Foundation 'Mommy was in an accident': A family tries to heal after a fatal Twilio.org has also supported places like OpenGov Foundation, Lesbians Who Tech, and Crisis Text Line. Exelon Corporation* The Anne Wojcicki Foundation, The Addy Foundation Since 2009, Rawson [] As the COVID-19 pandemics economic toll increases, many billionaires and their foundations are making very public efforts to pitch in. Kathleen and Dan Toney Jeff Lawson is the CEO of Twilio, a cloud communications platform that adds messaging, voice and video to web and mobile apps. The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. This week we speak to Jeff Lawson, co-founder and chief executive of US technology company Twilio. Jeff Lawson was all set to secure investment in his new start-up Twilio when suddenly people thought the world might be collapsing.