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Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965) [1] is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer. He was the first president of eBay, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and his media company Participant Media.
The Skoll Global Threats Fund sunset in 2017. Jeff holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2012. Jeff’s other honors include the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy (2017), Jefferson Award's S ...
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Feb 24, 2012 · Website: Participant Productions Website: Participate.net Website: Skoll Foundation. TED Speaker. Jeff Skoll was the first president of eBay; he used his dot-com fortune to found the film house Participant Productions, making movies to inspire social change, including Syriana; Good Night, and Good Luck; Murderball; An Inconvenient Truth ...
Cue Jeff Skoll. Skoll—a billionaire by way of eBay, where he was the first president—wanted to start a film-production company that would foster social change. Movies seemed an opportune way to draw attention to the world's problems and inspire viewers to address them.
Jeff Skoll is one of the most creative, generous, and effective philanthropists of his time. And at age 47, he’s just getting started. One of Jeff Skoll’s passions is storytelling. It stems from his youth, when he hoped to be a writer and inspire people to help solve the world’s biggest problems. Skoll took a detour on that path—moving ...
Jun 1, 2004 · 01 June 2004. Strategy and entrepreneurship Articles. Save to my profile. Select up to 4 programmes to compare. Jeff Skoll, co-founder of eBay, philanthropist and the man behind the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School ...
