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Apr 19, 2024 · When Variety broke the news Tuesday that billionaire Jeff Skoll ’s 20-year-old company will shut down — after fetching 21 Oscars and introducing a business model that prioritized social impact...
Apr 16, 2024 · Participant, the activist film and television studio that has financed Oscar winners and socially conscious documentaries, is closing its doors after 20 years. Billionaire Jeff Skoll told his staff in a memo shared with The Associated Press Tuesday that they were winding down company operations.
Apr 16, 2024 · Billionaire Jeff Skoll told his staff of 100 in a memo shared with The Associated Press Tuesday that they were winding down company operations. “This is not a step I am taking lightly,” Skoll wrote in the memo.
Apr 16, 2024 · On Tuesday, the company’s founder and financial lifeline, the eBay billionaire Jeff Skoll, pulled the plug — a decision based, at least in part, on the atrophying entertainment business.
After pioneering the creation of the eBay Foundation, Jeff founded the Skoll Foundation in 1999. Over the last 20 years, Jeff Skoll has created an innovative portfolio of philanthropic and commercial enterprises, each of which is a distinctive lever for achieving transformational social change.
3 days ago · Jeff Skoll built his fortune as eBay's first full-time hire and president in 1995; he left eBay in 2001, three years after its IPO. His Skoll Foundation quadrupled its grants to $200 million...
Jeff Skoll, one of only 20 people who've ever given away $1 billion, hopes his philanthropy can engage everyone in the planet's survival.
