Tech Pioneer Taps Marine Roots With Millions for Veterans Causes
- GoDaddy founder looks for groups that struggle for funds
- Parsons’s goal is to ‘donate a million bucks every other week’
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Bob Parsons is bucking the tech-bro stereotype in the industry that helped make him a billionaire. From an impoverished childhood in Baltimore, Parsons became a US Marine and then founded web-hosting pioneer GoDaddy Inc.
He’s eschewing pursuits like AI startups and space endeavors to focus on veterans causes.