Jeffrey Skoll: Meet the Canadian billionaire who’s giving it all away
“I was living in a house with five guys, eating their leftovers when they weren’t watching. … I went from that to having $1-billion-plus on paper.” – Jeffrey Skoll
Billionaire Jeffrey Skoll
While I don’t normally cover Internet billionaires the above quote by Canadian Jeffrey Skoll caught my eye and I had to plug the article. Jeff made his fortune with eBay.
“Soon after graduating, he met Pierre Omidyar, who had decided that the emerging World Wide Web needed an auction house. “My initial reaction, with my Stanford diploma in hand, was: ‘Pierre, that’s a really dumb idea. That’ll never work,’” he admits.
But within months, he and Mr. Omidyar decided to leave their jobs and turn the “dumb idea” into a business. Two years after that, eBay went public.
Today, he is Canada’s eighth-richest citizen, with an net worth estimated at $3.75-billion, including a $500-million investment in eBay that makes him its second-biggest stakeholder.”
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