Jeff Skoll

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Jeff Skoll is a Canadian-born entrepreneur, film producer, and philanthropist best known as eBay’s first president and for founding Participant Media and the Skoll Foundation to promote social change.


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instanceOf entrepreneur
film producer
human
philanthropist
academicDegree Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering
MBA
awardReceived Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Order of Canada
Producers Guild of America Stanley Kramer Award (via Participant Media films)
countryOfBirth Canada
countryOfCitizenship Canada
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1965-01-16
educatedAt Stanford Graduate School of Business
University of Toronto
employer eBay
endTime 2001
familyName Skoll
founded Capricorn Investment Group
Participant Media
Skoll Foundation
Skoll Global Threats Fund
Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
givenName Jeffrey
industry film
philanthropy
technology
knownFor being the first president of eBay
founding Participant Media
founding the Skoll Foundation
name Jeff Skoll
netWorthStatus billionaire
notableWork An Inconvenient Truth
Capricorn Investment Group
Charlie Wilson's War
Contagion
Food, Inc.
Good Night, and Good Luck
Lincoln
Murderball
North Country
Participant Media
Skoll Foundation
Skoll Global Threats Fund
Skoll World Forum
Spotlight
Syriana
The Cove
The Help
The Kite Runner
The Visitor
Waiting for Superman
philanthropicFocus climate change
economic opportunity
global health
peace and security
social entrepreneurship
placeOfBirth Montreal
positionHeld President of eBay
residence Palo Alto NERFINISHED
startTime 1996
website https://participantmedia.com
https://skoll.org

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eBay
founder
Jeff Skoll
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