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Pierre Omidyar – $8.1 Billion

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Ebay founder and chairman Pierre Omidyar was born in France of Iranian parents, and moved to the U.S. with his family at age six. He wrote code for his website, Auction Web, at age 28 and renamed it eBay after his first choice, Echo Bay, was already taken. Lately he launched First Look Media in late 2013 with the aim of presenting new forms of independent journalism. With a promised $250 million from Omidyar, First Look launched its first digital magazine, The Intercept, in February 2014 with work from investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. Omidyar also spends time on the Omidyar Network, his philanthropic investment firm. As members of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, Omidyar and his wife Pam have donated to the fight against human trafficking, including $115 million to their Humanity United foundation, which funds 85 antislavery nonprofits as well as projects in five countries, including their first in Nepal. They’ve pledged to spend another $50 million by 2016.

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