Pierre Omidyar News
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EBay CEO John Donahoe bets on tech to take on rivals
… seminal figure in e-commerce history. Andreessen, board member Scott Cook, who is also co-founder of Intuit, and Pierre Omidyar , eBay founder and now chairman, are key technology advisers. Donahoe also assigned Chief Technology Officer Mark …
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'Shooting Itself in the Foot': Is U.S. Turning Away Entrepreneurs?… entrepreneurs -- think Yahoo, co-founded by Chinese-American Jerry Yang; eBay, created by French-born Iranian Pierre Omidyar ; and Google, co-founded by Russian-American Sergey Brin . Immigrants across the United States own 12.5 percent …
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Court Says eBay Not to Blame for Tiffany Counterfeits
… or 5 to 7 percent of world trade, each year. EBay was founded in 1995 by French Iranian computer programmer, Pierre Omidyar , and has since grown into one of the Internet's most successful ventures. In 2009, eBay, which also owns Skype …
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Net worth of the 'Forbes 400' richest Americans hits $1.57 trillion
… Google guys Sergey Brin and Larry Page (down $2.7 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively), eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (down $2.6 billion) and media maven Sumner Redstone (down $2.5 billion). This year's biggest gainer is …
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Meet the 400 Richest Americans… Google guys Sergey Brin and Larry Page (down $2.7 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively), eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (down $2.6 billion) and media maven Sumner Redstone (down $2.5 billion). This year's biggest gainer is …
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Off the Block: eBay's Post-Auction Future
… design firm has come up with a new look for us." Pierre Omidyar pulled out a sheet and at that moment, I was one ..... is eBay's actual new business strategy. And as Pierre Omidyar understood far better than me that day in the parking …
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Bill Gates' Retirement: It Won't Last Long… just give money to charity or set up foundations, but that they can find a better model for doing so. At eBay, Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll both thought that way a decade ago and pursued the idea of 'social entrepreneurship'. Sergey Brinn …
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The World's Youngest Billionaire: Will He Keep It?… himself and brought in a professional manager, Meg Whitman, to run the company. At the same time, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar kicked himself upstairs to become chairman of the company and get out of Meg's way. There is a famous moment …
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Tech Executives Dominate Richest Americans List
… Other high-tech executives who made a strong showing on the list in 2007 are eBay Inc.'s founder and Chairman Pierre Omidyar , who came in 32nd with a net worth of $8.9 billion; Amazon.com founder, Chairman, CEO and President Jeff …
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Your Second Life Is Ready
… objective. Launched in 2000, SL counts among its largest backers Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar . Today a session in SL usually means play: meeting new people (everyone who's logged in is somewhere in the SL …
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Nice Guys Can Finish First
… No. 1 for would-be moguls: Keep trying. He went on to Stanford Business School, where he became friends with Pierre Omidyar . "Just after I had graduated, Pierre had come up with this idea to help people buy and sell things online. And …
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Young and Wealthy and Giving It Away
… building," Karoff said. "They want to see their money work and see that it goes to the places they intend." Pierre Omidyar , founder of eBay, made a similar decision. He launched the Omidyar Network in 2004 with his wife, Pam, after …
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Young and Wealthy and Giving It Away
… building," Karoff said. "They want to see their money work and see that it goes to the places they intend." Pierre Omidyar , founder of eBay, made a similar decision. He launched the Omidyar Network in 2004 with his wife, Pam, after …
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Nice Guys Can Finish First
… 1 for would-be moguls -- keep trying. He went on to Stanford Business School, where he became friends with Pierre Omidyar . "Just after I had graduated, Pierre had come up with this idea to help people buy and sell things online. And …
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Nice Guys Can Finish First
… 1 for would-be moguls -- keep trying. He went on to Stanford Business School, where he became friends with Pierre Omidyar . "Just after I had graduated, Pierre had come up with this idea to help people buy and sell things online. And …
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Silicon Insider: Social Entrepreneurs
… column over the years, I was involved in the early days of eBay, back when the company was little more than Jeff, Pierre Omidyar and a jar of Red Vines. I became friends with both men, especially Jeff, and we've stayed in regular touch ever …
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Public Funding for Stem Cell Research
… McClintock. Some of the Proposition 71 backers are among the richest people in America. Bill Gates and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar are so rich, they could pay the entire $3 billion themselves and still have $55 billion left. So why don't Gates …
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Silicon Insider: Behind the Birth of eBay
… Coca-Cola and a jar of red whip licorice but we were thinking the same thoughts. There were four of us at that table: Pierre Omidyar , Jeff Skoll, Mary Lou Song and myself. The other three were co-founders of an 18-month-old company called …
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Silicon Insider: Signs of Life in the Valley
… week the Exploratorium in San Francisco held an awards dinner for, among others, an old friend: eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar . For the last two years these events have been pretty depressing. The chat is always prefaced with "Well, if we …
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Silicon Insider: High-Tech Philanthropy
… sat across from me, next to his parents, who'd flown in from Florida for the event. Sitting next to me was Pierre Omidyar , now the head of an even larger charitable fund, based in Las Vegas. Pierre too had come to watch his old partner …
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Silicon Insider: The eBay State
… of eBay. To be precise, I was among the first dozen shareholders, having been awarded them by the two founders Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll for, among other things, helping them develop the company's long-term business strategy. As …
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Silicon Insider: Giving It Up for Good
… celebrated for their considerable contributions. But there are a number of new philanthropists as well Gordon Moore, Pierre Omidyar , Andy Grove, and others that rival their older counterparts (not to mention the Rockefellers, Gettys and MacArthurs …
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Serwer Talk: America's Richest 40 Under 40
… and founder of Dell Computer. At the age of 36, he's worth $16.3 billion. Rounding out the top five are: Pierre Omidyar , 34, who along with Skoll, 36, founded eBay. Omidyar is worth $4.39 billion and Skoll comes in at $2.63 …
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March of the PEZ Dispencers
… those little dispensers, you ought to have your little hollow plastic head examined. Just remember, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar created the Internet auction company after starting an online site for his girlfriend to trade Pez dispensers. Those …
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Silicon Insider: The Uncertain Future of the Net
… tried to make up for lost ground with the usual Microsoft policy of annihilating anyone ahead of them. The other, Pierre Omidyar of eBay (trust me on this, because I was there), was just as amazed by what happened as everybody else. He just …
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Hot Topics: The World of Internet Venture Capital
… of the company s initial public offering. Now I Get It Started in as an experiment out of 29-year-old founder Pierre Omidyar s apartment, eBay flourished under Benchmark s tutelage. The firm helped eBay lure Meg Whitman from her cushy …