Ebay founder

(1967-)

Who Is Pierre Omidyar?

Pierre Omidyar is the founder and chairman of eBay. Omidyar graduated from Tufts University in 1988 with a degree in computer science and worked for both Macintosh and Apple before founding eBay.

By the end of 1998, the company boasted 2.1 million

Early Life

Pierre Morad Omidyar was born on June 21, 1967, in Paris, France. Unlike many other high-tech entrepreneurs, Omidyar didn't set out to become an Internet tycoon.

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He moved to Maryland as a child when his father accepted a residency at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. He wrote his first computer program at age 14, to catalog books for the school library.

He graduated from Tufts University in 1988 with a degree in computer science and went to work for a company that developed Macintosh software.

Later, he worked for the Apple subsidiary Claris and then helped start a software company in 1991 called Ink Development Corp. The company later changed its name to eShop and w