Faculty News
Professor Anindya Ghose explains how the sale of Oculus to Facebook has impacted the future of crowdfunding
—
![CrowdFund Beat logo CrowdFund Beat logo](/sites/default/files/styles/480w/public/assets/images/crowdfundbeat%20192%20x%20144.jpg?itok=gR6AOElI)
Excerpt from CrowdFund Beat -- "'In the future, donors will be a lot more circumspect and skeptical about putting in money, especially in projects where they could have even an inkling of an idea that this might be bought out by a tech giant like Google, Facebook, or Apple,' says Anindya Ghose, a professor at New York University who studies the crowdfunding sector. 'They do not believe in backing projects for financial, commercial reasons. For them it’s a lot about a cause or altruism.'"
Read more
Read more