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Pierre Omidyar on eBay and Pez Dispensers, Leaving the Valley and the Most Important Thing He’s Ever Done

By melissa | Published: March 20, 2010
It’s almost a cliché that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don’t go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money, they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people’s companies. But what did eBay founder Pierre Omidyar do? Moved to Honolulu where he can be found sitting on beaches. But don’t let the top line narrative fool you, Omidyar hasn’t just been looking at sunsets all these years. He’s been busy making good on his commitment to give away some 99% of his multi-billion dollar fortune and lately has been launching Peer News , a new kind of online news service that won’t have reporters or articles in the classic sense, nor will it allow anonymous comments or make money off advertising.
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15 Famous Tech Titans Hit Forbes’ Billionaire List

By anthony | Published: March 11, 2010
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires and when it comes to technology, the list includes many of the same faces we see year after year . After regaining the throne last year, Bill Gates has once again been displaced as the world’s richest man — this time by Carlos Slim (who held that post back in 2007), but he remains the richest man in tech by a wide margin with an estimated net worth of $53 billion. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg , who fell off the list last year, has rejoined, tied with 20 others at #212 with an estimated net worth of $4 billion . Check out how some other tech heavyweights weighed in: Larry Ellison: $28 Billion The Oracle founder and CEO is the sixth richest person in the world this year, sitting pretty with $28 billion as his estimated net worth. Sergey Brin & Larry Page: $17.5 Billion Each The two Google co-founders both place 24th on the list with $17.5 billion in estimated net worth
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