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  1. Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) 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.

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    6 days ago · Pierre Omidyar founded online auction firm eBay in 1995 and now serves on the company's board. In 2002 eBay bought online payments firm PayPal and spun it off in 2014. From 2005 to 2020, Omidyar ...

  3. An early internet pioneer, Pierre founded eBay in 1995, transforming the way people thought about trust. Improving systems and challenging what’s possible continues to drive Pierre’s work and inspire the diverse collection of organizations, initiatives, and ventures of The Omidyar Group.As a philanthropist, Pierre has forged a distinct path, creating new models and methods of giving ...

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · Pierre Omidyar is the founder and chairman of eBay. Omidyar graduated from Tufts University in 1988 with a degree in computer science and worked for both Macintosh and Apple before founding eBay.

  5. Feb 4, 2022 · Today, Pierre Omidyar is hailed as the architect of a new age of digital commerce, but the founder of eBay, the world's largest personal online trading community, became a web entrepreneur almost by accident. In 1995, he created the prototype for an online auction site as an experiment on his personal web page. Almost overnight, visitors by the thousands flocked to the site to trade ...

  6. Pierre Omidyar. An early internet pioneer, Pierre founded eBay in 1995, transforming the way people thought about trust. Improving systems and challenging what’s possible continues to drive Pierre’s work and inspire the diverse collection of organizations, initiatives, and ventures of The Omidyar Group. As a philanthropist, Pierre has ...

  7. 6 days ago · # 198 Pierre Omidyar $11.4B Random fact: Became a billionaire in 1998 at age 31. Overview. Omidyar is the founder of EBay, an online marketplace with about 134 million active buyers and about 1.7 ...

  8. Pierre Omidyar is the founder and chairman of eBay and a cofounder and chairman of Omidyar Network. The Idea: Omidyar was inspired by eBay’s social impact to create a hybrid model for his ...

  9. Pierre's work at Omidyar Network is greatly influenced by his beliefs in the inherent potential of all people and the transformative power of markets. These beliefs inspired him to found eBay in 1995. Starting from the premise that people are basically good, Pierre created a platform that enabled people to connect over shared interests and ...

  10. Oct 21, 2013 · Oct. 20, 2013. Pierre M. Omidyar, the founder of eBay and now a philanthropist, has been much in the news after it was revealed last week that he would be backing a general-interest news site to ...