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The Referendum: Melanie Perkins Asked the World to Help Decide How to Give Away Her Fortune
Codie Sanchez spent her authority building a curriculum. Alex Hormozi's got walled off from his own company. Whitney Wolfe Herd is spending hers tearing down Bumble's defining features. Melanie Perkins is spending hers on something stranger: asking strangers how she should give away a fortune denominated in a stock her own backers just wrote down by billions.
— By Authority Daily · OCT 08, 2026 · 8 MIN —
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