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    PIERRE OMIDYAR’S HAWAIIAN VISION

    Oct 17, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: The Omidyar Network has spent upwards of $1 billion on its efforts to use free-market solutions to take on social, economic, and political issues

    Parviz Omidyar was born in Paris in June 1967 to Iranian immigrant parents. He would go on to fame and fortune three decades later as a tech mogul, known by this time as Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. Although he’s stepped away from eBay’s day-to-day operations, Omidyar remains on the board and owns roughly 7 percent of the company. He’s kept busy in recent years with philanthropy and media ventures. Now he wants to tackle food security in his adopted home of Hawaii— which might prove his biggest challenge yet.

    Omidyar became interested in technology as a ninth-grader at the Potomac

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