Jeffrey Skoll

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Jeffrey
Skoll

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• Born January 16, 1965.
• He was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec.
• He graduated with a BASc with honors in 1987 from The
University of Toronto’s electrical engineering program.
• He graduated from Stanford Business School’s Masters of
Business Administation.
• Ocupation: engineer, internet entrepreneur and film
producer.
• With an estimated net worth of $ US 3.8 billion (as of
September 2013).
• Was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and
347th in the world.

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Pierrre Omidyar hired to Skoll as the Company’s first president
and fist full-time emplyeee.
Skoll wrote the bussiness plan thta eBay followed from its
emergence as a start –up to a great success.

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Films and documentaries that promote social values while still being comercially viable

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He has given the eponymous Skoll Foundation approximately
$1 billion of eBay stock since its formation in 1999. The
Foundation supports "social entrepreneurship". Skoll chairs the
Foundation and today makes grants in excess of $80 million per
year. The Skoll Foundation's assets rank it as the largest
foundation for social entrepreneurship in the world.