Pierre Omidyar's great coup was the establishing of eBay, an innovation that made a sea change in the way Americans and others shop.
Omidyar was born to Iranian parents; the family came to the United States in 1973 and settled in Washington, D.C.
Pierre graduated college with a degree in computer science and soon became an entrepreneur. He created eBay, which he first called Auction Web, in 1995 when he was only 28. The company began selling stock in 1998, making Omidyar very rich--a multi-billionaire.
Like many other important innovations, eBay came about for an odd, offbeat reason: because Omidyar's wife had wanted some way to buy and sell Pez dispensers by computer.
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