Canadian Business: Rich 100 2008

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Jeff Skoll

Jeff Skoll

Jeff Skoll

Rank: 10
Networth: $3.14 billion
Location: Palo Alto, CA
2007 Rank: 7

Skoll’s Participant Productions changed its name in 2008 to Participant Media to reflect its expansion into other forms of entertainment beyond film. Skoll, the founding president of eBay and founder and chairman of the Skoll Foundation, also announced additional investments of $19.18 million in the recipients of the 2005 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. The investments are designed to help these groups promote change and achieve sustainability.