Pierre Omidyar Biography

Pierre Omidyar is a French-born American philanthropist andentrepreneur. Pierre is the founder of the eBay auction site 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). Pierre and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond nonprofits to include for-profits and public policy. Since 2010 he 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 will create and finance First Look Media, a journalism venture to include Glenn Greenwald Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill.

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