French-American software developer and founder of eBay, who created the world's first large-scale consumer auction marketplace and later became one of Silicon Valley's most prominent philanthropists through the Omidyar Network.
Invented the online person-to-person auction model — building on the insight that any item has a buyer somewhere if you can aggregate enough potential buyers — and created the trust and feedback mechanisms that made strangers transact reliably online.
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