Comment Inexact summary and linked article (Score 1) 147
The article stated makes it look like this is the initiative of Zuckerberg, and manages to misreport the scale of this prize.
See the foundations website: http://www.breakthroughprizeinlifesciences.org/
Not 11 prizes totalling 33 millions as reported, but 5 prizes of 3 M each.
Also the sponsors are listed, in that order,
Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
Yuri Milner