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May 26, 2012 · Jeffery Skoll was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 25, 2012. Dave Chan. Two weeks ago, an unusual crowd gathered at the Bacara, a tony beachfront resort and spa in Santa Barbara ...
- Tikkun Olam
- Early Life
- EBay
- Becoming A Billionaire
- Giving It All Away
- Participant Media
- Impact Investor
- "If I Die Today, Everything Goes to The foundations."
That simple phrase, which means "to heal the world," inspired Skoll to devote his entire life, and the vast majority of his $7 billionpersonal fortune, to social entrepreneurism and philanthropy.
Jeffrey Skoll was born in 1965 into a middle-class Jewish family in Toronto. His mother was a teacher and his father owned an industrial chemical company. When Jeff was 14, his father was diagnosed with cancer. His father expressed regret for not having time to do everything he had planned in life. This conversation would have a profound, lifelong ...
While at Stanford Jeff was introduced by a mutual friend to an aspiring entrepreneur named Pierre Omidyar. In 1994 Pierre approached Jeff with an idea to create an auction site on the burgeoning World Wide Web. Skoll actually declined the opportunity so Omidyar pressed forward on his own, launching eBay on September 3, 1995. The first item sold on ...
As internet at large exploded, eBay became one of the hottest dotcom companies on the planet. In March 1998, eBay hired Meg Whitmanto replace Jeffrey as President and help guide the startup to an IPO. Leading up to the IPO, eBay had to disclose a major risk factor in its prospectus. That risk? Beanie Babies. The company was so reliant on the sale o...
Never forgetting his father's regrets and the concept of "tikkun olam," after becoming a multi-billionaire Jeffrey set out to change the world. In 1999, he founded the Skoll Foundation. That same year, a skiing injury left him so badly injured he couldn't sit down, causing him to conduct business meetings lying across the conference room table. The...
In 2004, hoping to utilize the entertainment industry to bring social situations to light, Skoll created Participant Media. Today, the company already has an impressive track record of films meant to inspire social awareness and change. Some of Participant Media's films include: 1. The Help 2. Syriana 3. Contagion 4. An Inconvenient Truth 5. Lincol...
Jeffrey is considered a pioneer in the concept of "impact investing" – where people choose to invest in for-profit companies that have a mission to create both financial and societal returns. His largest fund, Capricorn Investment Group, oversees an estimated $10 billion in assets and has made large investments in public companies like Tesla and st...
If only more billionaires in the world were like Jeffrey Skoll. And if I ever become a billionaire, I will certainly be following in his path!
Forbes— which last year calculated that Skoll was one of only 20 people who have donated $1 billion or more during a lifetime—puts his net worth at $2.7 billion. As surprising as the notion may seem, eBay amounted to a test bed for Skoll's approach to global betterment.
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Nov 18, 2013 · Jeffrey Skoll, one of the first to sign the giving pledge, is using the billions he made as eBay's first president to fight what he calls global threats - not just one, but five problems he's ...
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Nov 30, 2003 · Jeffrey S. Skoll lit up Silicon Valley as the first president of eBay (EBAY
As founder of the Jeff Skoll Group (JSG), Jeff Skoll is bringing to life his vision of a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all.. As the first full-time employee and first President of eBay, Jeff developed the company’s inaugural business plan and led its successful initial public offering. eBay has since become the world’s largest on-line marketplace, giving hundreds of ...
Oct 24, 2012 · Skoll, who has promised to give away the majority of his wealth as part of the Bill Gates-Warren Buffett philanthropy pledge, seems personally content. He’s in the thick of combat with the menaces he always wanted to take on, and he notes how privileged he feels to have enough resources to carry the fight.
