Jeffrey Skoll is a Canadian #engineer, internet #entrepreneur and film #producer. He was the first employee and subsequently 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. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. He began the eBay Foundation which was allocated pre-IPO stock now worth $32 million. Once eBay's second largest stockholder, he cashed out a portion of his company holdings, yielding him around $2 billion. With an estimated net worth of $4 billion (as of December 2016), Skoll was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 134th in the United States. As the founder, owner, and chairman of Participant Media, Skoll has produced numerous critically acclaimed films. 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. Subsequent films have included @An Inconvenient Truth (2006), @Fast Food Nation (2006), The World According to Sesame Street (2006), , Lincoln (2012), and his latest, Spotlight (2015) won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016.

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