Pierre Omidyar (* 21. June 1967 in Paris) be a American entrepreneur Persian descent, founder and chairman (Chairman OF the board) the platform eBay.

With six years it pulled with its family after Washington DC (the USA). Already in its youth Pierre was interested for programming. 1988 locked Omidyar its study to the Tufts University with the Bachelor OF Science in computer sciences.

After its study it began as a developer within the range software engineering with Claris, a subsidiary company of Apple computers. There he dedicated himself Ink Development Corp. to the development from user applications to it together with friends the company based. This enterprise was renamed later in "eShop ". After the sales of eShop at Microsoft Omidyar was first in the development department of general Magic active.

Beside it advanced its new project first in its spare time eBay, while it was active vocationally far for general Magic. This enterprise developed Omidyar then however step by step with a row highly motivated coworker consistently. A goal was it to develop an efficient and responding commercial platform. Omidyar introduced an auction format for private on-line sales as the first, a system, with which each user could act as buyers as as salesmen.

Like Omidyar many texts in the Internet according to on the idea to have come is to base eBay belonged with considerable security into the realm of the urbanen legends. According to these texts resolution is to be too eBay due to a maintenance with its wife pleases to be. This is to have been a leidenschafliche PEZ Sammlerin and preserve the desire with as much as possible different collecting tanks over Internet to exchange themselves and their collection in such a way to extend be able. Pierre Omidyar is thereupon a Website with these possibilities for its wife to have provided. When this turned out as success and noticed Omidyar that need at such systems existed, it based in September 1995 eBay.

At least the latter is correct. eBay this story continues to maintain nice firm history however to today as one "". In the entrance hall of the Germany center in Kleinmachnow different valuable PEZ Sammelobjekte and even a PEZ vending machine are to be seen issued in a showcase. These articles are to cement invented firm history still further.

On the idea too eBay Omidyar came into truth by that surprisingly successful sales of a defective laser pointer on the platform developed considerably by it eShop, whereby the potential of open sales sale in the Internet, how eBay one should become, revealed itself to him. With a multiplicity at investors in the neck it concerned to Omidyar from the beginning as a businessman thereby the absorption of a highest possible profit, because after one year it already raised fees for the use of its offer. 1996 had for the first time to book eBay profit, 1998 became it already quoted enterprise - still with its person at the point.

In the meantime Pierre Omidyar withdrew itself as a repeated billionaire from the active business and is more in the philanthropischen range actively. It supported the Tufts University with the establishment "of the University college OF Citizenship and Public service "(UCCPS). It concerns an initiative, which promotes the political commitment of the Tufts students.

The moreover is Pierre Omidyar founder and a supervisory board chairman "of the Omidyar Foundation ". In addition it cooperates actively in the Kuratorium of the Tufts University and the Santa Fe of institute.

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