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Jun 21, 1968 Paris, Île de France, France 56 years old
eBay founder, American entrepreneur and philanthropist
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About Pierre Omidyar
- Pierre Morad Omidyar (Persian: ??? ???? ????????, Persian pronunciation: [pi?je? mu???d umi?dj???] born June 21, 1967) is an American billionaire entrepreneur, computer scientist and philanthropist.
- He is the founder of eBay where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015.
- He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998 initial public offering (IPO).
- Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy. Since 2010, Omidyar has been involved in online journalism as the head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat.
- In 2013, he announced that he would create and finance First Look Media, a journalism venture to include Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill.
