![]() ![]() The film won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Vice President Al Gore on the climate crisis. A year later, Skoll financed and played a key role in the creation of the environmental documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which grew out of a slideshow developed by former U.S. In 2005, Skoll's first Participant productions were released, with Syriana Good Night, and Good Luck North Country and Murderball, together garnering 11 Oscar nominations. In 2004, Skoll founded the company Participant to create films that increase public awareness of critical social issues and give audiences opportunities to get involved through education and social action campaigns. Once eBay's second largest stockholder, behind Omidyar, he subsequently cashed out a portion of his company holdings, yielding him around $2 billion. In 1998, he championed the creation of the eBay Foundation, which was allocated pre-IPO stock now worth $32 million. He remained President until the arrival of Meg Whitman in January 1998 when he became Vice President, Strategic Planning and Analysis until back problems necessitated his departure from full-time employment at the company. While eBay was already profitable at the time Skoll joined, he wrote the business plan that eBay followed in subsequent years. In 1996 Skoll met eBay's founder Pierre Omidyar, who hired him as the company's first president and first full-time employee. After Stanford he went to work at Knight-Ridder where he was working on internet projects for the publishing company. He left Canada in 1993 to earn a Master of Business Administration degree at Stanford Business School, graduating in 1995. ![]() 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 paid his way through college by pumping gas in North York, Ontario. While an undergraduate student, he co-edited the engineering students' satirical newspaper The Toike Oike. He graduated with a BASc with honours in 1987 from the University of Toronto's electrical engineering program. His first job was pumping gas at a York Mills gas station. When 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. The family settled in Toronto in the late seventies. ![]() His mother was a teacher and his father was a chemical company owner who sold industrial chemicals. Jeff Skoll was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His subsequent films have included An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Fast Food Nation (2006), The World According to Sesame Street (2006), Waiting for "Superman" (2010), Lincoln (2012), and his latest, Spotlight (2015) won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016. His first films Syriana (2005), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), and North Country (2005), along with the documentary Murderball (2005), accounted for 11 Oscar nominations in 2006. ![]() Through his film production company, Participant–of which he is founder, owner, and chairman–he has produced numerous critically acclaimed films. With an estimated net worth of US$4 billion (as of December 2016), Skoll was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 134th in the United States. While at the company, he began the eBay Foundation which was allocated pre-IPO stock now worth $32 million. Shortly after graduating from business school, he began his career at eBay where he wrote the business plan that the company followed from its emergence as a start-up to a larger company. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from University of Toronto in 1987 and left Canada to attend Stanford University's business school in 1993. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. He was the first president of eBay, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and his media company Participant Media. Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer. ![]()
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