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Pierre Omidyar | |
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| Born | Parviz Morad Omidyar June 21, 1967 Paris, France |
| Citizenship | Iran[1][2][3] France[4] United States[5] |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BS) |
| Occupation(s) | 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 |
Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist,[6] he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015.[7][6] Omidyar and his wife Pamela founded Omidyar Network in 2004. As of 2023[update], Forbes ranked Omidyar as the 245th-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $8.7 billion.[8]
Omidyar is a long-term Democratic Party donor.[9] Since 2010, he has been involved in online journalism as the head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat.[10] 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.[11][12][13]
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- ^ "Caramail, PriceMinister, Net2One... que sont devenus leurs fondateurs ?". Capital (in French). Retrieved August 25, 2023.
- ^ "Pierre Omidyar, le fondateur français d'eBay". www.journaldunet.com (in French). September 30, 2010. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
- ^ Beuth, Marie-catherine (August 17, 2014). "Le Figaro profile: Pierre Omidyar, le mécène". Le Figaro. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
- ^ "Pierre Omidyar". Forbes. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
- ^ a b "Pierre Omidyar". US Virtual Embassy Iran. January 1, 2015. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- ^ Viegas 2006, p. 13
- ^ "Pierre Omidyar". Forbes. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
- ^ Perlberg, Steven (April 24, 2019). "How the Intercept Is Fueling the Democratic Civil War". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
- ^ "Hawaii News - Honolulu Civil Beat - Investigative Reporting". Civil Beat.
- ^ "The extraordinary promise of the new Greenwald-Omidyar venture (UPDATED)". Columbia Journalism Review.
- ^ Hosenball, Mark (October 15, 2013). "Here's Who's Backing Glenn Greenwald's New Website". Huffpost. Archived from the original on April 2, 2019.
- ^ Jay Rosen (December 19, 2013). "A First Look at NewCo's structure". Pressthink.org.