Pierre Omidyar Net Worth: Know his earnings, business,ebay, education, house, wife

Making his name in the billionaire's shortlist, Pierre Omidyar is best-known as the founder and chairman of eBay. He holds the huge net worth of $11.8 billion.

Pierre Omidyar Net Worth: $11.8 billion

Pierre has mostly bagged a huge net worth of $11.8 billion as of 2019 from his work as founder and chairman of eBay. He is also the founder of Omidyar Network and other businesses.

His earnings details are highly kept confidential, however, he won the 1999 EY Entrepreneur of The Year and also was listed Third Most Influential French Entrepreneur in 2018 by Richtopia.

Omidyar's Property:

Omidyar owns a house in Henderson, Nevada. The house is built in an area of around 48,000 square-foot and consists of 33 bedrooms and 25 bathrooms.

The chairman of eBay owns a beautiful house in Laguna Beach, CA.

Pierre Omidyar owns a private jet Gulfstream G650.

What did Omidyar do as an early career? Know about his stardom:

After graduation, Pierre went to work an Apple Computer subsidiary named Claris. He went to become the co-founder of pen-based computing, Ink Development in 1991.

It was later rebranded as an e-commerce company and named it as eShop Inc. In 1996, Microsoft purchased eShop for around $50 million and Pierre bagged around $1 million from the deal.

How did Omidayer found eBay? What were his contributions? Let's know:

At the age of 28, Omidyar wrote the original computer code for an online medium to purchase and sell items. The initial prototype was generated by Omidyar and launched it with the name of Auction Web in 1995.

The service worked through a site, eBay.com and it achieved huge attention. The first item to be sold was a broken laser printer. The business started to grow and only a year later, Omidyar signed a deal to offer online airline tickets.

Within a year, Jeffrey Skoll joined the company. And Meg Whitman was announced as the CEO and president of the company who later retired in 2008.

Then, in 1997, Omidyar decided to go with the name eBay. His first choice for the site was Echo Bay Mines which was already registered by a Canadian mining company.

To the date, eBay has been one of the best online markets.  

Pierre Omidyar's Other Business:

Besides eBay, Omidyar founded an online investigative news service named Honolulu Civil Beat in 2010. For the three consecutive years, the site has already been named the Best News Website in Hawaii. The company is now in partnership with The Huffington Post. 

Then in 2014, Omidyar founded a journalism venture, First Look Media with The Intercept. The ventures include journalists like Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Dan Froomkin, Laura Poitras, and Jay Rosen.

He has also been the executive producer of the two films namely, Merchants of Doubt in 2014 and Spotlight in 2015.

In addition, Omidyar and his wife established a philanthropic investment firm, Omidyar Network in 2004. The organization makes investments to make social and political changes and innovate other organizations.

Where and when was Pierre Omidyar born? Know about his education also here:

Pierre Morad Omidyar was born on June 21, 1967, in Paris, France, to the parents, Cyrus Omidyar. The whole family moved to the US when Omidyar was a child.

For primary education, Omidyar went to The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia. In 1984, he graduated from St. Andrew's Episcopal School. 

Then in 1988, he graduated with a degree in computer science from Tufts University. He is also an undergraduate from the University of California.

Know about Omidyar's Married Life:

He is a married man.

Omidyar married Pamela Kerr.