Jeffrey Skoll

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Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, Occupation, is a Canadian engineer, internet entrepreneur, and film director.

He was the first employee and then first president of eBay, eventually becoming a philanthropist, primarily through the Skoll Foundation and his media company Participant Media.

Capricorn Investment Group was formed shortly after and now serves as its chairman.

He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1987 and then moved to Stanford University's business school in 1993. He began his career at eBay, where he drafted the company's strategic plan that the company followed from its inception as a start-up to a larger corporation shortly after graduating from business school.

While at the firm, he founded the eBay Foundation, which was then obligated pre-IPO stock that now values $32 million.

He was eBay's second largest stockholder, behind Omidyar, until he shrewd a portion of his company assets, earning him around $2 billion.

Skoll, the 7th richest Canadian and 134th in the United States, was listed by Forbes as the 7th richest Canadian and chairman of many critically acclaimed films, as the founder, founder, and chairman in December 2016.

His first films, Syriana (2005), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), and North Country (2005), along with the documentary Murderball (2005), received 11 Oscar nominations in 2006.

His subsequent films include An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Fast Food Nation (2006), The World According to Sesame Street (2006), Lincoln's (2010), Lincoln (2012), and his most recent, Spotlight (2015), which received the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016.

Early life

Jeff Skoll was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Jewish family. His mother was a teacher and his father was a chemical company owner who sold industrial chemicals. In the late seventies, the family immigrated to Toronto. When Skoll was fourteen, his father was diagnosed with cancer, which prompted him to discuss with his son how much he regretted not having the time to do everything he had planned in life. He started pumping gas at a York Mills gas station.

In 1987, he graduated with a BASc with honors from the University of Toronto's electrical engineering program. He co-edited the engineering students' satirical newspaper The Toke Oike, as an undergraduate. He paid his way into college by pumping oil in North York, Ontario. After studying abroad for many months, he returned to Toronto and established two companies: Skoll Engineering, an information technology consulting company, and Micros on the Move Ltd., a computer rental company. He left Canada in 1993 to earn a Master of Business Administration degree at Stanford Business School, graduating in 1995. After Stanford, he went to work at Knight-Ridder, where he was working on internet projects for the company.

Personal life

Skoll married television executive Stephanie Swedlove in 2014. Skoll had filed for divorce from Swedlove in January 2019.

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Honours and awards

• Bloomberg Business Week's list of most innovative philanthropists (2002–present)
• National Leadership Award for Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley (2004)
• Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the International Association of Fundraising Professionals (2003)
• Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (2002)
• Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto (2003)
• Time Magazine's 100 People of the Year (2006)
• Wired Magazine's Rave Award (2006)
• He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his generous commitment to social causes and for his innovative practice of philanthropy." (2011)
• Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy (2017)