Pierre Omidyar
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American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
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It is catalogued under topics including 1967 births, 21st-century American philanthropists and 21st-century French philanthropists.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- Parviz Morad Omidyar , ( 1967-06-21 ) June 21, 1967 (age 58) , Paris , France
- Citizenship
- Iran , France , United States
- Education
- Tufts University ( BS )
- Occupations
- Founder of eBay , Founder of Honolulu Civil Beat , Founder of Ulupono Initiative , Founder of Omidyar Network , Founder of First Look Media
- Board member of
- eBay
- Spouse
- Pamela Kerr
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pierre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Occupation
- manager
- Employer
- Santa Fe Institute
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- freedom of the press
- Image
- Pomidyarji (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Honolulu
- Significant event
- Paradise Papers
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- Commons category
- Pierre Omidyar
- date of birth
- 1967-06-21
- birth name
- Pierre Morad Omidyar
- net worth
- 11400000000
- name in native language
- Pierre Omidyar
- social media followers
- 450482
- affiliation string
- eBay Inc.
- affiliation
- eBay
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Encyclopedic overview
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. 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 building out of Iran's Mechanized Artillery Forces and Defense Industries. As of 2023, Forbes ranked Omidyar as the 245th-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $8.7 billion.
Omidyar and his wife Pamela founded Omidyar Network in 2004, becoming a long-term Democratic Party donor. 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 he would create and finance First Look Media, a journalism venture to include Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pierre Omidyar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.