PIERRE OMIDYAR
1967–
US entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar changed e-commerce forever when his experimental online auction service quickly grew into the world’s largest digital marketplace: eBay. Creating a platform and a community for people to buy and sell products directly, his company fueled the success of individual businesses as well as his own.
When Pierre Morad Omidyar was six, his Iranian parents moved from Paris, France, to Baltimore, Maryland. He developed an interest in computer coding while at school and wrote his first program at the age of 14. After graduating with a degree in computer science, ...
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