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Pierre Omidyar
Pierre Omidyar
French Businessman
Born: Jun 21, 1967
Business First People Power Time You
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If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed. Pierre Omidyar
You Do The Right Thing People Opportunity Right Thing Rarely Give Disappointed The Right Thing Right Thing
Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity. Pierre Omidyar
Opportunity Everyone Born Equal Equal Opportunity Equally Lacks Capable
If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things. Pierre Omidyar
You People Strangers Distrust Remarkable Over Get Initial Things
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying. Pierre Omidyar
Buy You Wealth Car OK Only Could Had Soon Particularly None Expensive Interesting Them Realize Then Notion Now Satisfying
I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest. Pierre Omidyar
Work Way Independent Possible Developed Support Journalists Supporting Greatest Interest Public Public Interest Extent
My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories. Pierre Omidyar
Time Remember Car Physician Spend Kid About Could Weekends Hospital Driving He Talk Him Talking Around His Going Patients Stories Them Dad Rounds
I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy. Pierre Omidyar
Training Philanthropy Focused Origin
A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment. Pierre Omidyar
You Business Experience Proof Perfect Point Individual Through Leads Well Became Provide Bank Actually Profitable
I do like to fly under the radar. When I walk around town, the only people I want to recognise me and call me by my name are the folks at Starbucks. Pierre Omidyar
Me People Walk Fly Recognise Folks Only Name Town Like Call Around Want Radar Starbucks
Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power. Pierre Omidyar
Change People Power Own Long-Term Discover Sustainable Happens
News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new. Pierre Omidyar
News Entrepreneur Digital Sense Ways Something More Something New New Perhaps Make Around Makes Era Doing Been Years Traditions Lot May Just While Them Organisations Flexible Less Many Served Things Start
In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer. Pierre Omidyar
Made First Software Tablet Computer Development Which Ink Start-Up Early
I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods will trade at a fair value only when everyone has access to the same information. Pierre Omidyar
Financial Will Value Everyone Markets Financial Markets Only Had Fair Goods Trade Access Always Been Same Information Interested Theory Specifically
As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity. Pierre Omidyar
People Human Being Opportunity Try Ownership Every Philanthropist Everything Born Take Equal Equal Opportunity Equally Done Lack Human Being Capable Rooted Notion Help Help People
Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way. Pierre Omidyar
Work Change Problem Way Rules System Point Point Of View Come Make Different Certain Working Engage View Certain Way Different Way Actually
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system. Pierre Omidyar
Business Trust First Other System Some Someone Develop Another Enabling Person Either Measure Based
You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time. Pierre Omidyar
Time You Philanthropist Invest Venture Same Same Time Capitalist Help Companies Grow
In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents. Pierre Omidyar
Parents Individual Terms Make Make A Difference Difference Belief
In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business. Pierre Omidyar
You Business Yourself Thinking Give Investment Investors Operate Return Returns Access Got Private Provide Order Capital Profitable Competitive Basis

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