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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…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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…
The Omidyar Way Of Giving
With the non-profits it backs, ranging from Kiva, a microfinance website, to the Sunlight Foundatio…
The Omidyar Way Of Giving
Typically, foundations have given funds for a specific project rather than to build the capabilitie…
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…
Erin Snodgrass
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 …
Melia Russell
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
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
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
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…
Jordan Parker Erb
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
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…
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
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
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
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, …
Taylor Lorenz
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
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…
Madeline Stone,Biz Carson
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
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…