Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, a child of Silicon Valley who married one of its most successful entrepreneurs, is leading efforts to reshape the high-tech sector as a major philanthropic force, The New York Times writes in a profile

The wife of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and the daughter of John Arrillaga Sr., the property developer credited with transforming a patch of California farmland into the world’s technology hub, Ms. Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches a class in strategic philanthropy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has advised Facebook founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz and Hewlett-Packard chief Meg Whitman on giving.

Observers said Ms. Arrillaga-Andreessen mixes a personal commitment to giving —inherited, she said, from late mother Frances, a philanthropist—with an analytical and entrepreneurial approach drawn from business.

“The word ‘philanthropy’ brings up an image of somebody who’s had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established institutions that may or may not have ivy growing up their walls,” she told the Times. “I personally have felt the need to give philanthropy a reboot.”

Read a Chronicle of Philanthropy article on Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and her new book, Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World.