Jeff Skoll
$5.3B
Born
Jan 16, 1965
Age
60
Source of Wealth
EBay
Residence
Los Angeles, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Single
Children
0
Education
Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Toronto
- 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 has put on the Skoll World Forum since 2004, bringing together business, government, philanthropy and civil society leaders focused on social change.
- His charitable Skoll Foundation and Skoll Global Threats Fund have distributed some $1.2 billion globally over more than 20 years.
- In 2024, Skoll announced that after 2 decades he was shutting down his movie production company Participant Media, which produced An Inconvenient Truth and many other films.
- Skoll founded millennial-focused cable TV channel Pivot TV in 2013 but shut it down in late 2016.
- Skoll was born and raised in Canada and pumped gas to pay his way through the University of Toronto. He became a U.S. citizen in 2007.
- He met eBay founder Pierre Omidyar while he was an MBA student at Stanford University.
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