While an undergraduate student, he co-edited the engineering students' satirical newspaper The Toike Oike. He graduated with a BASc with honours in 1987 from the University of Toronto's electrical engineering program. His first job was pumping gas at a York Mills gas station. When Skoll was fourteen, his father was diagnosed with cancer which prompted him to discuss with his son how much he regretted not having had the time to do everything he had planned in life. The family settled in Toronto in the late seventies. His mother was a teacher and his father was a chemical company owner who sold industrial chemicals. Jeff Skoll was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His subsequent films have included An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Fast Food Nation (2006), The World According to Sesame Street (2006), Waiting for "Superman" (2010), Lincoln (2012), and his latest, Spotlight (2015) won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016. 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. Through his film production company, Participant Media–of which he is founder, owner, and chairman–he has produced numerous critically acclaimed films. With an estimated net worth of US$4 billion (as of December 2016), Skoll was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 134th in the United States. Once eBay's second largest stockholder, behind Omidyar, he subsequently cashed out a portion of his company holdings, yielding him around $2 billion. While at the company, he began the eBay Foundation which was allocated pre-IPO stock now worth $32 million.
Shortly after graduating from business school, he began his career at eBay where he wrote the business plan that the company followed from its emergence as a start-up to a larger company. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from University of Toronto in 1987 and left Canada to attend Stanford University's business school in 1993. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. He was the 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.
Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer.
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