Building a state-of-the-art Emergency Room for Silicon Valley
Today I'm extremely excited to tell you about a philanthropic gift that my wife Laura and I are making:
We are giving $27.5 million to Stanford Hospital, for two purposes:
First, to significantly enhance and upgrade Stanford Hospital's current Emergency Department.
And second, to fund the creation of a new state-of-the-art emergency facility in the new hospital that Stanford will build -- assuming it is approved by the city of Palo Alto -- over the next several years.
As you can imagine, Laura and I are unbelievably excited by the opportunity to make this gift. In fact, we are so excited that I am going to tell you all about it at some length in this blog post!
For us, this gift is a great fit between a clear immediate need, and the prospect of helping to change the way the system that serves the need operates.
And we think the impact on Silicon Valley can be tremendous.
Read more at Marc Andreessen's blog.
Marc Andreessen is the cofounder Netscape Communications Corp. and Ning, a consumer Internet company. 
