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Amazon's Jeff Bezos is the latest major tech founder to step down as CEO. Here's what others are up to now.

He was also one of the few remaining founder-CEOs of a generation of tech companies born in the pas…

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Billionaire eBay Founder: I Lost The Washington Post Bid To Jeff Bezos So I'm Starting A Company With Glenn Greenwald

"As part of my learning process, I recently reached out to Glenn Greenwald to find out what journal…

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The Omidyar Way Of Giving

With the non-profits it backs, ranging from Kiva, a microfinance website, to the Sunlight Foundatio…

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The Omidyar Way Of Giving

Typically, foundations have given funds for a specific project rather than to build the capabilitie…

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Read the casual emails between Elon Musk and Sam Altman that kicked off OpenAI

Elon Musk unveiled emails between himself and fellow billionaire Sam Altman as evidence in the Tesl…

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Google, Netflix, and OpenAI execs are hosting a fundraiser for Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris has friends in high-tech places as execs from Google, Netflix, and OpenAI organize a …

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Larry Ellison bought an entire island and Jeff Bezos owns a $78 million property there, but eBay's reclusive founder is Hawaii's richest resident

Pierre Omidyar, who founded eBay in 1995, has taken the top spot away from Oracle's Larry Ellison, …

Polly Thompson   


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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says she's supporting herself with crypto she purchased 'at the right time'

"For the foreseeable future, I'm fine, because I did buy crypto at the right time," Frances Haugen …

Sarah Al-Arshani   


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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is reportedly being funded by the billionaire founder of eBay

Pierre Omidyar is reportedly funding the Facebook whistleblower in one of his many advocacy efforts…

Hannah Towey   


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10 things in tech you need to know today

Facebook's oversight board condemned the company, and we created a guide for whistleblowers to shar…

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How Honolulu's Ulupono Initiative is helping Hawaii fight hunger, invest in clean transportation and housing, and become carbon neutral by 2045

The Ulupono Initiative, a venture of eBay founder's The Omidyar Group, has provided $81.5 million t…

Erica Sweeney   


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Finally, a Silicon Valley billionaire is standing up to Peter Thiel in the Gawker case

Omidyar and Thiel have a history. Omidyar was the founder of eBay, and Thiel was a cofoun…

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EBay's founder just invested $500,000 into an experiment giving away free money

GiveDirectly is running a small pilot in just a few Kenyan villages at present, but once the full e…

Chris Weller   


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These 15 immigrants became millionaires and billionaires after coming to the US

Moving to a new country is a big risk. Beyond the obvious barriers of distance, language, and cultu…

James Lindsay   


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Salesforce is hiring its first Chief Ethical and Humane Use officer to make sure its artificial intelligence isn't used for evil

Following the internal backlash, Google CEO Sundar Pichai published a set of ethical principles on …

Rosalie Chan   


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How 'eBay' got its name: It was originally a site about ebola in the Bay Area

In August 1995, as General Magic [his previous company] began to show signs of financial distress, …

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The Reclusive Billionaire Behind eBay Has Lived For Years In Second Life As A Segway-Riding Black Guy

It might sound weird, but this is Second Life. The entire point of the virtual platform is to let p…

James Cook   


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19 tech titans who are giving away their billions instead of leaving it to their families

We've rounded up some of the most generous people in tech, all of which have decided to donate larg…

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App-only bank Tandem is worth £65 million - and it hasn't even launched yet

Tandem got its banking license last year but is yet to launch. It plans to have a data-heavy approa…

Oscar Williams-Grut   


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San Francisco's housing crisis is so bleak, this startup is reinventing homeschooling so teachers can afford to live where they work

In San Francisco, the company says school operators charge $1,971 for tuition on average, which cou…

Melia Robinson