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Pierre Omidyar Biography

Pierre Morad Omidyar (Persian: پیر مراد امیدیار‎, Persian pronunciation: [piːjeɾ moɾɑːd omiːdjɑːɾ] born June 21, 1967) is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist of Iranian origin. He is the founder of the eBay auction site where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998 initial public offering (IPO). Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy.

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We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want to be treated.

Basically, Believe, Contribute, Encourage, People, Want

Be an enzyme - a catalyst for change. As a slogan, I don't know if that's ever going to be right up there with Ich Bin Ein Berliner, or “I Have A Dream,” but there's a lot of truth to it.

Dream, Catalyst For Change, Enzymes, Slogan, Truth

You'll fail at some things - that's a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience. What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones. . . I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

Cheerleader, Ebay, Experience, Mistake, Past, Things

In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.

Thinking Of You, Order, Giving, Return, Basis, Operate

I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.

Entrepreneurs, Giving, People, Reasons, Thinking, Value

I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

Ahead, Kind, Notion, Tried, Want

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Allows, Business, Connections, Numbers, Rich, Technology

In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.

Constant, Driven, Example, Innovation, Same, Thinking

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you'll be successful. If you start a business because you think you're going to make a lot of money at it, then you probably won't be successful, because that's the wrong reason to start a business. You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

Believe, Business, Enough, Takes, Work

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

Ambition, Enjoyed, Inspirational, Mean, Passion, Pursuing

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.

Business, Thinking, Power, Internet, Use

I've been asked before, "Who are your heroes?" and these types of questions. I always find it hard to identify a single person or a single book or this sort of thing. I've always been forward looking. I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much anything you want. You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish. I was given a sense of confidence and I never really felt the need to -- or I've never had the benefit, I should probably say -- of being inspired by outside heroes.

Hero, Book, Needs, Probably, Looking, Inspired

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

Building, Everything, Future, Program, Trying

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

Business, Ebay, Person, Technology, Trust

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected. . . you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

Platform, Successful, Unexpected, Way

You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

Believe, Hard Work, Successful, Succeed, Enough

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

Ebay, Guiding Principles, Organic, Principles, Simple

I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

Ahead, Kind, Things, Tried

One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.

Language, Occurs, People, Talk, Trying, Voice

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

Built, Enough, Simple, Sustain

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