Pierre Omidyar

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Pierre Omidyar is a famous entrepreneur known for his flourishing business establishment, ‘eBay’

Jun 21, 1967

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: June 21, 1967
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Entrepreneurs, Software Entrepreneurs, it, Billionaires, Business People, IT & Software Entrepreneurs
  • City/State: Paris
  • Spouses: Pamela Kerr
  • Known as: Pierre Morad Omidyar
  • Universities:
    • 1988 - Tufts University
    • St. Andrew's Episcopal School

Pierre Omidyar born at

Paris

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Birth Place

Pierre is married to a biology graduate and co-founder in most of his ventures, Pamela Wesley, and the two have been blessed with three children.

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Personal Life

In 2010, Omidyar, along with Pamela, Richard Branson, and the 'Nduna Foundation', founded the 'Enterprise Zimbabwe', as a venture aimed at helping the nation develop their economy.

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Personal Life

Pierre Morad Omidyar was born to Iranian settlers, Elahé Mir-Djalali Omidyar, and her husband, in Paris, on June 21, 1967.His mother is a renowned linguistics scholar, and his father was employed at the 'Johns Hopkins University' as a surgeon.

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Childhood & Early Life

The family later settled down in the U.S, where the young boy attended the 'Potomac School', Virginia. He eventually completed his secondary education in 1984, from 'St. Andrew's Episcopal School' in Maryland.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1988, Pierre earned his bachelor's degree from Massachusetts' 'Tufts University', with a specialization in computer science. After graduating, he worked for a few years at a company called ‘Claris’ that developed some of the software used by 'Apple Inc.'.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1991, this software enthusiast, along with Arnold Blinn, Greg Stein, Will Poole, and Matt Kursh, founded a small-scale pen computing firm named, 'Ink Development'.

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Career

Two years later, the founders of 'Ink Development' rechristened the company to 'eShop', and began focussing on e-commerce.

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Career

On September 4, 1995, Omidyar inaugurated an internet site called 'Auction Web', which allowed users to buy and sell items online.

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Career

Within a span of one year, the brilliant businessman acquired the license to sell airplane tickets on the site. In 1996, he also hired the proficient engineer, 'Jeffrey Skoll', to work with him on 'Auction Web'.

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In 1997, 'Auction Web' was renamed as 'eBay', after his initial choice of 'echobay' was already in use. During the same period auctions of items on sale had hit an average of 800,000 per day.

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Career

His most successful establishment has been that of ‘eBay’, which started out as a small-scale e-business website. However in recent times, it has earned billions of dollars, and has also launched subsidiaries like ‘Half.com’, ‘Kijiji’, and ‘StubHub’.

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Major Works