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Canadian born engineer and internet entrepreneur, Jeffrey Skoll, has an estimated net worth of $5.5 billion.
He is the founding president of the internet auction firm eBay. He used the wealth from eBay to become a philanthropist and to put up the independent movie production company Participant Media. As eBay's first employee and President, Skoll oversaw the company's meteoric rise from internet start-up to multi-billion dollar company. While he no longer works for eBay, Skoll maintains a sizeable equity stake of approximately 4%. These days, Skoll funnels much of his money and energy into his production company, Participant Media, which makes films intended to inspire social change such as Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth. Jeff Skoll was born January 16, 1965, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada into a Jewish family.
Earnings & Financial Data
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Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2019 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Total amount of donation that Skoll Foundation and Skoll Global Threats Fund have distributed worldwide, aiming to reduce poverty, among other goals |
$600,000,000 |
|
2016 |
Sale of Asset |
Selling price of Jeffrey Skoll's 14,855-square-foot Silicon Valley home |
$20,000,000 |
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2013 |
Asset |
Jeffrey Skoll's investment in Seed Round - Breezeworks, Seed Round - Porch and Seed Round - popexpert |
$10,300,000 |