On Thursday (March 4), San Francisco State University’s business school announced that it had received from Ripple Co-Founder Chris Larsen, his wife, and Rippleworks one of the largest crypto donations ever made to a U.S. university: $25 million in XRP.
According to an announcement by SFSU, on Thursday evening, at a celebration held in San Francisco's Masonic Center, Universiy President Leslie E. Wong told the 400 "civic, community and University leaders" attending the event that SFSU's College of Business had received a $25 million gift from "Chris Larsen (B.S., ’84, Alum of the Year ’04), his wife Lyna Lam and Rippleworks, a nonprofit foundation launched in 2015 by Larsen and Doug Galen which supports high-growth social ventures around the world."
