Ex-Microsoft exec shares his wealth
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A former top executive of US software giant Microsoft has traded his high-flying job to deliver books to remote villages in Nepal on the back of a yak. John Wood, a 39-year-old senior executive at the Washington-state based company quit his 300,000-dollar-a-year post and launched a charity in 2000 to boost literacy in remote Asian communities in countries such as India and Nepal.
"People thought I was crazy, but I think it's how you use your freedom that counts and I wanted to do something for other people," he said of friends' reaction to his transformation from executive to educator.