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In 2002, eBay bought PayPal, an online payment company.
Later, in 2015, they spun PayPal off.[26] Omidyar still owns 6% of its worth .[27]
As of July 2008, Omidyar's 178 million eBay shares were worth around $4.45 billion.[28]
Omidyar is an investor in Montage Resort and Spa in Laguna Beach, California.
Omidyar is also a member of the Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council.[29]
In 2020, Omidyar stepped down from the board of eBay as part of a broader overhaul of the company.
He has, however, stayed active in the company, retaining the title of director emeritus.[30]
The first item sold on the eBay site was a broken laser pointer.[23]
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'"Pierre Omidyar co-funded Ukraine revolution groups with US government, documents show."'
https://twitter.com/FederalistNo78/status/1182747032576024576
https://archive.is/A74GE
http://web.archive.org/web/20200208100242/https://twitter.com/FederalistNo78/status/1182747032576024576
By Mark Ames
On February 28, 2014
{ snippet }:
What’s shocking is the name of the billionaire who co-invested with the US government
(or as Wheeler put it: the “dark deep force” acting on behalf of “Pax Americana”).
Step out of the shadows…. Wheeler’s boss, Pierre Omidyar.
Yes, in the annals of independent media, this might be the strangest twist ever:
According to financial disclosures and reports seen by Pando,
the founder and publisher of Glenn Greenwald’s government-bashing blog,“The Intercept,”
co-invested with the US government to help fund regime change in Ukraine.
https://pando.com/2014/02/28/pierre-Omidyar-co-funded-ukraine-revolution-groups-with-us-government-documents-show/
https://archive.ph/bmB1w
who is the money behind the NEW Sanders campaign that is just a front for Muslim terrorists using Bernie as a figurehead? Pierre Omidyar of Ebay and the Paypal Mafia. { ResidenceHonolulu, Hawaii }
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/03/bernies-billionaire-how-richest-man-hawaii-funds-daniel-greenfield/ https://archive.is/PdHi2
https://archive.ph/w3sVB
Early history:
PayPal was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998 as Confinity,[9]
a company that developed security software for hand-held devices.
Having had no success with that business model, however, it switched its focus to a digital wallet.[10]
The first version of the PayPal electronic payments system was launched in 1999.[11]
In March 2000, Confinity merged with x.com, an online financial services company founded in March 1999 by Elon Musk,
Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho. [12]
Musk was optimistic about the future success of the money transfer business Confinity was developing.[13]
Musk and Bill Harris, then-president and CEO of X.com,
disagreed about the potential future success of the money transfer business and Harris left the company in May 2000.[14]
In October of that year, Musk decided that X.com would terminate its other internet banking operations and focus on PayPal.[15]
That same month, Elon Musk was replaced by Peter Thiel as CEO of X.com,[16]
which was renamed PayPal in June 2001 and went public in 2002.[17][18][19]
PayPal's IPO listed under the ticker PYPL at $13 per share and generated over $61 million.[20]