# Professor Anindya Ghose explains how the sale of Oculus to Facebook has impacted the future of crowdfunding

1 Faculty News April 20, 2016 ![CrowdFund Beat logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/crowdfundbeat%20192%20x%20144.jpg?itok=7d2S-INk)>

Excerpt from [CrowdFund Beat](http://crowdfundbeat.com/2016/04/20/the-apples-and-oranges-of-crowdfunding/) -- "'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](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/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.'"

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