Pierre Omidyar

Pierre Morad Omidyar, aka Pierre Omidyar, is an American billionaire, computer scientist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. The founder of e-Bay and its chairman from 1998-2015, turned billionaire with its initial IPO.

Omidyar was born on June 21, 1967, in Paris, France, to father Cyrus Omidyar and mother, Elahe Mir-Djalali Omidyar. He attended The Potomac School but graduated high school from St. Andrew's Episcopal School in 1984. He graduated in computer science from Tufts University in 1988.

Is Married To Pamela Kerr

The tech billionaire is in a marital relationship with Pamela Kerr. The detailed information regarding his wife still lacks. Not only that, but their exact marital details are also unknown.

As of now, Mr. and Mrs. Omidyar are sharing a blissful bond as a perfect married partner without involving in any rumors related to their separation. 

From the marital bond, Pamela and Pierre shared children together. The information regarding their kids also lacks. 

Net Worth, Properties & Investments

Omidyar's net worth is $25.4 billion, according to Forbes. He turned into a billionaire at the age of 31 when eBay went public in 1998.

eBay bought PayPal in 2002 while Omidyar was the chairman. He currently owns 5% of eBay, which has a market capitalization of over $27.2 billion. He also owns 6% of PayPal, which has a market capitalization of around $83 billion.

Omidyar founded Omidyar Network in 2004, where he put $1.4 billion for his philanthropist efforts. He has vowed to donate much of his riches to charity.

The philanthropist also owns resort properties in southern California and Mexico. He has real estate in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, which is in the development phase. He also an estate in Henderson, Nevada, and Honolulu, Hawaii.

The billionaire also is the founder of First Look Media. Then the company has a news site The Intercept and the entertainment company Topic Studios under its umbrella.

Philanthropy Efforts 

Omidyar and his wife Pamela founded the Omidyar Network in 2004. It is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to improving lives around the world. The network invests and scales innovative organizations to help bring economic, political, and social change.

The organization has donated more than $1 billion to the Omidyar Network. The network also donated $100 million to the Tufts University to create the Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund.

Pierre and Pamela are also big investors in to fight against human trafficking. They have donated around $115 million to the cause in five different countries.

Pierre and Pamela received a Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Award for their efforts. They are only one of 11 recipients.

Road To Becoming a Billionaire

After graduating from Tufts University, Omidyar worked for Claris, which was a subsidiary of Apple Computer. He worked there in the team that upgraded MacDraw to MacDraw II.

The computer science graduate co-founded Ink Development, which was a pen-based computing startup. It was later re-branded to an e-commerce company and named eShop. Microsoft later acquired eShop for $50 million on June 11, 1996, from which he earned $1 million. Another Entrepreneur, Jamie Siminoff has a net worth of $300 million.

Before the sale of eShop, in 1995, then 28 years old started writing a codebase for an online place to enable a person to personal sales. The site was released on September 4, 1995, as Auction Web. Auction web was renamed by Omidyar as eBay in 1997. By that time, the site was hosting 800,000 auctions a day.

In addition, eBay launched its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in September 1998, which made Omidyar a billionaire.

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