Jeff Skoll
$4.5B
as of 07/05/24
About Jeff Skoll
Jeff Skoll built his fortune as eBay's first full-time hire and president in 1995; he left eBay in 2001, three years after its IPO.
His Skoll Foundation quadrupled its grants to $200 million in 2020 in response to the pandemic.
The Skoll Foundation and Skoll Global Threats Fund have distributed about $1.2 billion worldwide, aiming to reduce poverty, among other goals.
Participant Media, Jeff Skoll's film and television studio, has won 21 Academy Awards and 86 nominations, including Best Picture for "Spotlight" and Best International Film for "Roma."
Skoll founded millennial-focused cable TV channel Pivot TV in 2013 but shut it down in late 2016.
Personal stats
Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
EBayResidence
Los Angeles, CaliforniaMarital status
SingleBirth date
01/16/65 (age 59)Education
Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of TorontoSelf-made
self-madeJeff Skoll’s fortune is worth
75K
troy ounces of gold
69K
median U.S. household
45K
median U.S. income
0.09%
U.S. credit card volume
0.018%
GDP of the United States
0.013%
United States debt
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Did you know?
Skoll was born and raised in Canada and pumped gas to pay his way through the University of Toronto. He became a U.S. citizen in 2007.
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NASDAQ | EBAY-US
eBayNASDAQ | PYPL-US
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