Pierre Morad Omidyar (, born June 21, 1967) is a French-born
Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of the
eBay auction site where he served as Chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998
initial public offering (IPO). Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded
Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond nonprofits to include for-profits and public policy.