This 2-minute clip is spreading like wildfire tonight for one simple reason: it’s the clearest “pattern recognized in real time” moment about modern philanthropy most people have ever heard. Nicole Shanahan (RFK Jr’s 2024 running mate + ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin) sat down with Allie Beth Stuckey and laid out, step by step, how well-meaning Silicon Valley megadonors accidentally built a system that often rewards NGOs for never actually solving the problems they were funded to fix. In her own words from inside the room where it happened: - Hundreds of millions flow in - Stunning offices open → staff triples → titles multiply - The nonprofit becomes a roaring success - The community it serves… barely budges Because once the machine exists, its new primary mission is raising the next check. Fully solved problems don’t trigger emergency fundraising campaigns. “It runs on the exact same business model as teachers’ unions,” she says. “The persistence of the problem is the product.” She even walks through the exact second donors realize they’ve “created a monster,” decide to pivot away, and watch those same organizations immediately pivot to the next donor with a fresh sob story: “They abandoned us. We’re collapsing without you.” This isn’t ideology. This is a former top-tier Democratic megadonor describing her own grants, her own boards, her own money. Watch these 2 minutes and see if you can ever look at another “we’re so close, just one more push” appeal the same way again.