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  1. 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.

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  2. 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. www.forbes.com › profile › jeff-skollJeff Skoll - Forbes

    2 days ago · PROFILE. Jeff Skoll. $4.5B. $16M (0.35%) Real Time Net Worth. as of 5/10/24. #706 in the world today. Photo by Tim Pannell/The Forbes Collection. About Jeff Skoll. Jeff Skoll built his...

  4. About Powering social innovators to transform our world. Our Approach. In 1999, Jeff Skoll created the Foundation to build a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all.

  5. Feb 24, 2012 · 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

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