Jeff Skoll

Jeff Skoll (#750)

Global Rank #750

Country Rank #285

Country United States

When my friend Pierre Omidyar approached me with his idea for eBay, I was very sure of what to do. With my newly minted [MBA] degree in hand, I said 'Pierre, what a stupid idea!' Luckily, I soon realized that Pierre was onto something.

$ 6 B
EBay
United States
M
61 Years

Snapshot

Quick Facts

Global Rank #750

Country Rank #285

Net Worth $5.6B

Previous Worth $5.6B

Worth Change +$0.0B

Country United States

Industry EBay

Age 61 Years

Gender M

Worth As Of May 4, 2026

Residence Lantana, Florida

Citizenship United States

World Billionaires List United States Billionaires EBay

Profile Data

Personal Stats

Age 61

Source Of Wealth EBay, Self Made

Self Made Score 6

Philanthropy Score 4

Residence Lantana, Florida

Citizenship United States

Marital Status Single

Education Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Toronto

Net Worth Change +$0.0B +0.0% from previous worth

Previous Net Worth $5.6B

Current Net Worth $5.6B

Worth as of May 4, 2026

About Me

Jeff Skoll built his fortune as eBay's first full-time hire and president in 1995; he left eBay in 2001, three years after its IPO. His Skoll Foundation has put on the Skoll World Forum since 2004, bringing together business, government, philanthropy and civil society leaders focused on social change. His charitable Skoll Foundation and Skoll Global Threats Fund have distributed some $1.2 billion globally over more than 20 years. In 2024, Skoll announced that after 2 decades he was shutting down his movie production company Participant Media, which produced An Inconvenient Truth and many other films. Skoll founded millennial-focused cable TV channel Pivot TV in 2013 but shut it down in late 2016.

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#806

Billionaires (2026)

#280

Forbes 400 (2025)

#61

Richest In Tech (2017)

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Did You Know?

Skoll was born and raised in Canada and pumped gas to pay his way through the University of Toronto. He became a U.S. citizen in 2007.

He met eBay founder Pierre Omidyar while he was an MBA student at Stanford University.

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Current Net Worth: $5.6B (May 4, 2026)