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Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian engineer, billionaire
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and
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. He was the first president of
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, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the
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, and his media company
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. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. Born in
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,
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, he graduated from
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in 1987 and left Canada to attend
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's
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in 1993. Shortly after graduating from business school, he began his career at eBay where he wrote the
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that the company followed from its emergence as a start-up to a larger company. While at the company, he began the eBay Foundation which was allocated pre-IPO stock now worth $32 million. Once eBay's second largest stockholder, behind Omidyar, he subsequently cashed out a portion of his company holdings, yielding him around $2 billion. With an estimated net worth of US$4 billion (as of December 2016), Skoll was ranked by
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as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 134th in the United States. Through his film production company,
Participant Media Participant Media, LLC is an American Film industry, film production company founded in 2004 by Jeffrey Skoll, dedicated to entertainment intended to spur social change. The company finances and co-produces film and television content, as well as ...
–of which he is founder, owner, and chairman–he has produced numerous critically acclaimed films. His first films ''
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'' (2005), ''
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'' (2005), and '' North Country'' (2005), along with the documentary '' Murderball'' (2005), accounted for 11 Oscar nominations in 2006. His subsequent films have included ''
An Inconvenient Truth ''An Inconvenient Truth'' is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own e ...
'' (2006), ''
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'' (2006), ''
The World According to Sesame Street ''The World According to Sesame Street'' is a 2006 documentary film created by Participant Productions, looking at the cultural impact of the children's television series ''Sesame Street'', and the complexities of creating international adaptation ...
'' (2006), ''
Waiting for "Superman" ''Waiting for "Superman"'' is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. The film criticizes the American public education system by following several students as they strive to be ...
'' (2010), ''
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'' (2012), and his latest, ''
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'' (2015) won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016."Oscar nominations are not the goal: Participant Media CEO"
''
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'', February 21, 2013. Interview by
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with Participant CEO Jim Berk. Retrieved 2012-02-21.


Early life

Jeff Skoll was born to a
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family in
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,
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, Canada. His mother was a teacher"The thinking man's movie mogul", ''Telegraph Magazine'' 26 August 2006 and his father was a chemical company owner who sold industrial chemicals. The family settled in
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in the late seventies. When Skoll was fourteen, his father was diagnosed with
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which prompted him to discuss with his son how much he regretted not having had the time to do everything he had planned in life. His first job was pumping gas at a York Mills gas station. He graduated with a
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with honours in 1987 from the
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's
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program. While an undergraduate student, he co-edited the engineering students' satirical newspaper ''The Toike Oike.'' He paid his way through college by pumping gas in
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,
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. After graduating he backpacked around the world for several months before returning and founding two businesses in Toronto: Skoll Engineering, an
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consulting firm and Micros on the Move Ltd., a computer rental firm. He left Canada in 1993 to earn a
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degree at
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, graduating in 1995. After Stanford he went to work at
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where he was working on internet projects for the publishing company.


Skoll's eBay era

In 1996 Skoll met
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's founder
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, who hired him as the company's first president and first full-time employee. While eBay was already profitable at the time Skoll joined, he wrote the
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that eBay followed in subsequent years. He remained President until the arrival of
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in January 1998 when he became Vice President, Strategic Planning and Analysis until back problems necessitated his departure from full-time employment at the company. In 1998, he championed the creation of the eBay Foundation, which was allocated pre-IPO stock now worth $32 million. Once eBay's second largest stockholder, behind Omidyar, he subsequently cashed out a portion of his company holdings, yielding him around $2 billion.Malone, Michael S.
"The indie movie mogul"
''Wired'' magazine, February 2006.


Participant

In 2004, Skoll founded the company Participant to create films that increase public awareness of critical social issues and give audiences opportunities to get involved through education and social action campaigns. In 2005, Skoll's first Participant productions were released, with
Syriana ''Syriana'' is a 2005 American political thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, loosely based on Robert Baer's 2003 memoir ''See No Evil (Baer book), See No Evil''. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of George Clooney, Mat ...
;
Good Night, and Good Luck ''Good Night, and Good Luck'' (stylized as ''good night, and good luck.'') is a 2005 historical drama film about American television news directed by George Clooney, with the movie starring David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels, Ro ...
; North Country; and Murderball, together garnering 11 Oscar nominations. A year later, Skoll financed and played a key role in the creation of the environmental documentary,
An Inconvenient Truth ''An Inconvenient Truth'' is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own e ...
, which grew out of a slideshow developed by former U.S. Vice President
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on the climate crisis. The film won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. “ I would never have predicted that a film like ''An Inconvenient Truth'' would impact so many people,” Skoll told Philanthropy Roundtable. The Financial Times reported in 2009 that Participant allows Skoll to "pursue social and political causes through a mass medium. From modest beginnings, the company (which Skoll chairs, supported by a team of executives) is now a serious player." Fortune wrote the next year that Skoll's films are not typical Hollywood fare, "they tackle weighty subjects such as eco-Armageddon, petro-terrorism, education reform, and women’s rights. In short they tend to reflect Skoll’s progressive, and ultimately optimistic, worldview that shining a light on the world’s problems will inspire people to band together to bring about change on a large scale. (Indeed, the name 'Participant' evokes a call to action.)" Skoll has served as Executive Producer or Producer on nearly 100 Participant films, including ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
American Factory ''American Factory'' () is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, about Chinese company Fuyao's factory in Moraine, a city near Dayton, Ohio, that occupies Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors pl ...
'', and as of 2019 Participant has won 18
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and received 73 Academy Award nominations. In 2020, the company received another Academy Award nomination and win for best documentary feature for ''American Factory''. According to
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, in 2014 Skoll funded the creation of the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, saying at the time: "I founded Participant Media in the belief that a story well told has the power to ignite positive social change. This new center at UCLA TFT is an extension of that vision, with the goal of empowering a new generation and elevating storytelling as a tool to create impact and empower people to connect to the social issues that can have a profound impact on our world." In March, 2019, Participant and the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment released a report, "The State of Social Impact Entertainment," that said: "social impact entertainment — narrative and documentary film, television, theater, and emerging forms that engage audiences in solving real-world challenges — is not a fad but the future of the entertainment industry." In 2019, on behalf of Participant, Skoll and Participant CEO David Linde accepted the newly created TIFF Impact Award from the Toronto International Film Festival; in 2020 the award was renamed the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media and was awarded to Mira Nair.


Philanthropy

Skoll is a recipient of the
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, and a
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signatory. He has given the eponymous
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approximately $1 billion of eBay stock since its formation in 1999. The Foundation supports "
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". As of 2020, Skoll has been working for over ten years to help prevent pandemics and other global threats. In 2009, Skoll donated $100 million to create the Skoll Global Threats Fund to confront threats including climate change, water security, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, and Middle East conflict. The Fund created and spun off a stand-alone non-profit entity, Ending Pandemics, that focuses on pandemic detection and response. In 2011, Skoll's film company
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co-produced the film '' Contagion'' to raise awareness about the dangers posed by pandemics. Skoll wanted the film be scientifically sound and encourage funding of medical experts; In 2020, following the
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media coverage noted it was "shocking in its accuracy". In January 2020, Skoll donated $20 million, and an additional $100 million in April, to the Skoll Foundation to combat the
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. The funds were used to assist with testing, contact tracing, and provide respiratory devices and other medical equipment to countries that couldn't afford it. Skoll is active in "collaborative philanthropy" and has joined with other philanthropists and foundations to pool resources that then flow to non-profits focused on addressing specific issues at scale. In 2017, Skoll, joined with others to create Co-Impact, a philanthropic funding collaborative seeded with $500 million, whose "specific aim is to fund organizations that are addressing health, education and economic opportunity in low-to-middle income countries". Similarly in 2018, Skoll,
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, Virgin Unite, among others launched The Audacious Project, a philanthropic funding collaborative with an initial investment of $250 million for "audacious ideas" that deliver "impact at scale". Some of the first recipients of funding from The Audacious Project included the Environmental Defense Fund, Sight Savers, and The Bail Project. Skoll has funded the creation of academic centers at two universities. In 2003, Skoll funded the creation of the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship at
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's Said Business School. The center is a research center, hub for innovators, and host of the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Called the “Davos for the nonprofit set” by ''Forbes'', Skoll World Forum participants have included leading thinkers from South African Archbishop
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to former U.S. Vice President
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. In 2019, Skoll also funded the creation of the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at the
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. The center is dedicated to promoting social change through entertainment and the arts. In 2005, Skoll financed The Gandhi Project in partnership with Relief International which created a dubbed version in
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of the film ''
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''. They used Palestinian voice actors and artists to make the film particularly relevant to Palestinians. With Skoll's support, it was screened throughout Palestine to promote non-violence, self-reliance, economic development, and empowerment. In 2000, Skoll gave C$7.5 million to the University of Toronto to endow three chairs and establish the Jeffrey Skoll BASc/MBA Program, a joint program of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and the Rotman School of Management.


Impact investing

Skoll was one of the earliest proponents of socially responsible investing, called "impact investing", through which he invests in for-profit companies whose mission is to deliver both social impact and financial returns. In 2001, Skoll created Capricorn Investment Group "on the premise of socially responsible investing" and the firm now oversees more than $5 billion in client assets and another $3.5 billion in partnership with other organizations. According to
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, a "significant portion" of Capricorn's assets "has been put to work backing mostly private companies that are in some way aiming to help the environment and combat climate change". Capricorn's early investments included electric carmaker
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, battery technology developer QuantumScape, and air taxi developer
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. Other investments include private equity fund Encourage Solar Finance to promote rooftop solar installations in India. In 2016, Skoll, along with
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and investment firm TPG, co-founded The Rise Fund, a $2 billion social-impact fund with "a series of strict metrics by which to measure social impact". Rise's investments fall across seven sectors, including agriculture, education, and healthcare, and since 2017, "Rise has invested in more than 25 growth-stage companies that are making a measurable positive social and/or environmental impact".


Personal life

In 2014, Skoll married television executive Stephanie Swedlove. In January 2019, it was announced Skoll had filed for divorce from Swedlove.


Honours and awards

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's list of most innovative philanthropists (2002–present) * National Leadership Award for Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley (2004) * Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the International Association of Fundraising Professionals (2003) * Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (2002) * Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the
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(2003) * Time Magazine's 100 People of the Year (2006) * Wired Magazine's Rave Award (2006) * He was made an Officer of the
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"for his generous commitment to social causes and for his innovative practice of philanthropy." (2011) * Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy (2017)


Filmography


Film


TV series


See also

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References


External links

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Skoll Foundation

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