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Pierre Omidyar
Pierre Morad Omidyar is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. Omidyar is the grandson of the Imperial Iranian Army General Mahmud Mir-Djalali, who was instrumental in the 1921 rise of the Pahlavi Dynasty, the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh, and the buil…
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business · Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of eBay (born 1967) · philanthropist · entrepreneur · economist · programmer · computer scientist · manager · also Pierre Omidyar, Pierre Morad Omidyar, Pierre M. Omidyar, Omidyar
Born 21 June 1967 · Q348483
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2023· 1 entry
2020· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: EBay Founder Pierre Omidyar Steps Down From Board
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Omidyar stepped down from the board of eBay as part of a broader overhaul of the company
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2019· 2 entries
Yahoo: Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media Shuts Down Topic Magazine, Ends Funding for The Nib Political Cartooning Site
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Donated approximately $500 million to charitable causes
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2018· 1 entry
To provide an information platform whose declared mission is to ensure that everyone, even the least able, has the information to influence the decisions that affect their lives and the power to assert their rights
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2017· 3 entries
Forbes: Billionaire Pierre Omidyar's Foundation Commits $100 Million To Support Investigative Journalism
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The Business Journals: Pierre Omidyar, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman put $10M each into new fund for ethical artificial intelligence
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Reported net worth: $8.1B (as of 2017).
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2013· 4 entries
New York Magazine: Meet Pierre Omidyar, the Next Philanthropic Aspiring Media Mogul
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Honolulu Civil Beat started a partnership with HuffPost, launching HuffPost Hawaii
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Announced that he would create and finance First Look Media, a journalism venture to include Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill
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Prompted by the Edward Snowden leaks, Omidyar announced the creation of the journalism venture First Look Media, which on February 10, 2014, launched The Intercept, drawing from journalists such as Glenn Greenwald, Laura
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the National Order of Merit (2012).
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2010· 3 entries
Omidyar launched an online investigative reporting news service, Honolulu Civil Beat, covering civic affairs in Hawaii
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Joined Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as a signatory of The Giving Pledge, and has declared his intention to give away most of his wealth during his lifetime
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And his wife established Enterprise Zimbabwe, along with Richard Branson and the Nduna Foundation (founded by Amy Robbins)
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2006).
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2004· 2 entries
By Omidyar and his wife, Pam
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Becoming a long-term Democratic Party donor
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2002· 1 entry
EBay bought PayPal, an online payment company
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1997· 1 entry
Omidyar changed the company's name from AuctionWeb to eBay and began advertising the service aggressively
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1996· 1 entry
For less than $50 million, and Omidyar earned $1 million from the deal
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1995· 1 entry
At 28, Omidyar began to write the original computer code for an online venue to enable the listing of a direct person-to-person auction for collectible items
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1991· 1 entry
Co-founded Ink Development, a pen-based computing startup that later was rebranded as an e-commerce company and renamed eShop Inc
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1967· 2 entries
Born 1967-06-21.
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In Paris, the son of Iranian parents who had immigrated to France for higher education
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