What is Pierre Omidyar?
[[File:Pomidyarji (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Omidyar in 2007]] '''Pierre Omidyar''' (born June 21, 1967) created and is now the chairman of [[eBay]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/omi0bio-1 |title=Pierre Omidyar Biography |first= |last= |work=Academy of Achievement |year=2013 |accessdate=27 March 2013}}</ref> He was born in [[Paris]], [[France]] to a French-[[Iran]]ian family. Born in Paris, France, brought up by Iranian parents, Omidyar moved to the [[United States]] at the age of six. He grew up in [[Washington D.C.]] and developed an interest in computing while still at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in [[Bethesda, Maryland]]. He graduated high school in 1984. In 1988 he graduated in computer science from [[Tufts University]]. He helped write [[MacDraw]] in 1989 for [[Claris]], a part of [[Apple Computer]]. Two years later he co-founded Ink Development (later renamed eShop). He was 28 when he wrote the original computer code for what eventually became [[e-Bay]]. The site was launched on Labor Day, Monday, September 4 1995, under the more basic name “Auction Web.” ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Omidyar, Pierre}} [[Category:1967 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Paris]]