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Pierre Omidyar
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Pierre Omidyar Bio Details
Full name
Pierre Morad Omidyar
Also known as
Parviz Omidyar
Gender
Male
Occupations
Chairman of Ebay (Finished 2015)
Education
Tufts University, Massachusetts, United States
St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac, Maryland, United States
St. Andrews Episcopal School, Potomac, Maryland, United States
Born in Paris and emmigrated to USA when he was 6 with his Iranian parents who had previously emmigrated from Iran to France before he was born.
Ebay launched in 1995 starting life as Auction Web on Pierre's personal website. The first item ever sold was a broken laser pointer. Three years later the company floated on the stock exchange.
Co-founded Ink Development, a pen-based computing start-up, in 1991.
Co founded the Omidyar Network with his wife, a philanthropic investment firm.
In 2013 Pierre launched news organisation, First Look Media.
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