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Jeffrey Skoll
Jeffrey Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian engineer, internet entrepreneur and film producer. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.〔 With an estimated net worth of $US 3.8 billion (as of September 2013), Skoll was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 347th in the world.〔(Forbes )〕
He was the first employee and also first president of internet auction firm eBay, and used the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and his media company Participant Media.
== Early life ==
Jeff Skoll was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.〔''(Calcalist.co.il )''〕〔(Biography ), ,The History of Computing Project〕 His mother is a teacher〔"The thinking man's movie mogul", ''Telegraph Magazine'' 26 August 2006〕 and his father is a chemical company owner who sold industrial chemicals.〔Cohen, Adam, (''The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay'' ), ISBN 0-316-16493-3〕 The family settled in Toronto in the late seventies. When Jeff Skoll was fourteen his father was diagnosed with cancer which prompted him to discuss with his son how much he regretted not having had the time to do everything he had planned in life.
He graduated with a BASc with honors in 1987 from the University of Toronto's electrical engineering program. While an undergraduate student, he co-edited the engineering students' satirical newspaper ''The Toike Oike.'' He paid his way through college by pumping gas in North York, Ontario. After graduating he backpacked around the world for several months before returning and founding two businesses in Toronto: Skoll Engineering, an information technology consulting firm and Micros on the Move Ltd., a computer rental firm. He left Canada in 1993 to earn a Masters 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 publishing company.
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