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'''Jeffrey Skoll''' (born [[January 16]], [[1965]]) is a [[Canadian]] born [[businessman]] who lives in [[Los Angeles, California]].<ref name="forbes">[http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/PB9U.html Jeff Skoll] at Forbes</ref> He was the second employee and first president of internet auction firm [[eBay]], and used the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist and to found the independent movie production company [[Participant Productions]]. <!-- Image with unknown copyright status removed: [[image:Skoll.jpg|right|thumb|Jeffrey Skoll]] -->
'''Jeffrey Stuart Skoll''', [[Order of Canada|OC]] (born January 16, 1965)<ref name=":1"/> is a Canadian engineer, billionaire [[internet entrepreneur]] and [[film producer]]. He was the first president of [[eBay]], eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the [[Skoll Foundation]], and his media company [[Participant Media]]. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. Born in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], he graduated from [[University of Toronto]] in 1987 and left Canada to attend [[Stanford University]]'s [[Stanford Graduate School of Business|business school]] in 1993.


Shortly after graduating from business school, he began his career at eBay where he wrote the [[business plan]] 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.<ref name="telegraph" /><ref name=":0" /> With an estimated net worth of US$4 billion (as of December 2016), Skoll was ranked by [[Forbes]] as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 134th in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/jeffrey-skoll/|title=Jeffrey Skoll|newspaper=Forbes|access-date=December 28, 2016}}</ref>
==Early life==
Jeff Skoll was born in [[Montreal, Quebec]]<ref>[http://www.thocp.net/biographies/skoll_jeff.htm biography], The History of Computing Project</ref>, his mother a teacher <ref name=telegraph>"The thinking man's movie mogul", ''Telegraph Magazine'' [[26 August]] 2006</ref> and his father a chemical company owner who sold industrial chemicals<ref>[http://www.twbookmark.com/books/51/0316164933/chapter_excerpt16883.html ''The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay''], Adam Cohen, ISBN 0-316-16493-3</ref>


Through his former film production company, [[Participant Media|Participant]]–of which he was founder, owner, and chairman–he produced numerous critically acclaimed films. His first films ''[[Syriana]]'' (2005), ''[[Good Night, and Good Luck]]'' (2005), and ''[[North Country (film)|North Country]]'' (2005), along with the documentary ''[[Murderball (film)|Murderball]]'' (2005), accounted for 11 Oscar nominations in 2006. His subsequent films have included ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'' (2006), ''[[Fast Food Nation (film)|Fast Food Nation]]'' (2006), ''[[The World According to Sesame Street]]'' (2006), ''[[Waiting for "Superman"]]'' (2010), ''[[Lincoln (2012 film)|Lincoln]]'' (2012), and his latest, ''[[Spotlight (film)|Spotlight]]'' (2015) won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016.<ref name=":2">[http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/oscar-nominations-are-not-goal-participant-media-ceo "Oscar nominations are not the goal: Participant Media CEO"], ''[[Marketplace]]'', February 21, 2013. Interview by [[Kai Ryssdal]] with Participant CEO Jim Berk. Retrieved February 21, 2012.</ref>
Following the [[Quebec general election, 1976|1976 election]] of the [[Quebec sovereignty movement|Separatist]] [[Parti Québécois]] as the government of the [[Province of Quebec]], Skoll's family, like more than 400,000 other [[Anglo-Quebecer]]s, decided to leave [[Quebec]].{{POVassertion}} The family settled in [[Toronto]].


== Early life ==
When Jeff Skoll was fourteen his father was diagnosed with [[cancer]] 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. A keen reader, Skoll was influenced by authors such as [[Aldous Huxley]] and [[Ayn Rand]] and intended to become an author writing motivational books and books on tackling the world's problems.
Jeff Skoll was born to a [[Canadian Jews|Jewish]] family in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada.<ref>''[http://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-3359295,00.html Calcalist.co.il]''</ref><ref>[http://www.thocp.net/biographies/skoll_jeff.htm Biography], The History of Computing Project</ref><ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/who-said-jews-run-hollywood/ Times of Israel: "Who said Jews run Hollywood? -Inaugural list of 100 prominent players in Tinseltown shows a lack of diversity – and a whole lot of MOTs" by Lisa Klug] June 23, 2016</ref> His mother was a teacher<ref name=telegraph>"The thinking man's movie mogul", ''Telegraph Magazine'' August 26, 2006</ref> and his father was a chemical company owner who sold industrial chemicals.<ref>Cohen, Adam, [http://www.twbookmark.com/books/51/0316164933/chapter_excerpt16883.html ''The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060630123157/http://www.twbookmark.com/books/51/0316164933/chapter_excerpt16883.html |date=June 30, 2006 }}, {{ISBN|0-316-16493-3}}</ref> The family settled in [[Toronto]] in the late seventies. When Skoll was fourteen, his father was diagnosed with [[cancer]] 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 [[Bachelor of Applied Science|B.A.Sc.]] with honours in [[1987]] from the [[University of Toronto]]'s [[electrical engineering]] 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 [[North York]], [[Ontario]]. After graduating he backpacked around the world for several months before returning and founding two businesses in Toronto: Skoll Engineering, an [[information technology]] consulting firm and Micros on the Move Ltd., a computer rental firm. Those businesses did poorly so he decided to improve his business skills with further study.
He graduated with a [[Bachelor of Applied Science|BASc]] with honours in 1987 from the [[University of Toronto]]'s [[electrical engineering]] 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 [[North York]], [[Ontario]]. After graduating he backpacked around the world for several months before returning and founding two businesses in Toronto: Skoll Engineering, an [[information technology]] consulting firm and Micros on the Move Ltd., a computer rental firm. He left Canada in 1993 to earn a [[Master of Business Administration]] degree at [[Stanford Business School]], graduating in 1995. After Stanford he went to work at [[Knight-Ridder]] where he was working on internet projects for the publishing company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://skoll.org/about/meet-jeff-skoll/|title=Skoll {{!}} Meet Jeff Skoll|website=skoll.org|access-date=December 26, 2016}}</ref>


== Skoll's eBay era ==
He left Canada in [[1993]] to study a [[Masters of Business Administration]] at [[Stanford Business School]], graduating in [[1995]]. After Stanford he went to work at [[Knight-Ridder]] where he was working on internet projects for the publishing company.
{{Further|eBay}}
In 1996 Skoll met [[eBay]]'s founder [[Pierre Omidyar]], 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 [[business plan]] that eBay followed in subsequent years. He remained President until the arrival of [[Meg Whitman]] 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.<ref name="telegraph" /><ref name=":0">Malone, Michael S., [https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/skoll.html "The indie movie mogul"], ''Wired'' magazine, February 2006.</ref>


==Skoll's eBay era==
== Participant ==
In 1996 Skoll met [[eBay|eBay's]] founder [[Pierre Omidyar]] 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 [[business plan]] that eBay followed from its emergence as a start-up to a great success. He remained President until the arrival of [[Meg Whitman]] 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 only Omidyar) he subsequently cashed out a portion of the company, yielding him around $2 billion <ref>[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/skoll.html "The indie movie mogul", Michael S. Malone, ''Wired'' magazine, February 2006]</ref><ref name=telegraph/>.


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.<ref>Chong, Rachael (September 23, 2013). "Jeff Skoll On How He Uses The Power Of Storytelling To Push For Change". ''[[Fast Company]]''. Retrieved September 24, 2020.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Rainey|first=James|date=March 31, 2015|title=Jeff Skoll Aims to Fix Participant's 'Broken' Parts|url=https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/jeff-skoll-participant-interview-1201463011/|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2005, Skoll's first Participant productions were released, with [[Syriana]]; [[Good Night, and Good Luck]]; [[North Country (film)|North Country]]; and [[Murderball (film)|Murderball]], together garnering 11 Oscar nominations.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last1=Matthew Bishop|first1=Michael Green|last2=Fall 2013|title=Changing the World Through Storytelling|url=https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/philanthropy-magazine/article/fall-2013-changing-the-world-through-storytelling|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=Philanthropy Roundtable|language=en}}</ref> A year later, Skoll financed and played a key role in the creation of the environmental documentary, [[An Inconvenient Truth]], which grew out of a slideshow developed by former U.S. Vice President [[Al Gore]] on the climate crisis. The film won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary.<ref>{{Cite web|title='An Inconvenient Truth,' 10 Years Later: Al Gore, Jeff Skoll and More Dish in THR's Oral History {{!}} Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/an-inconvenient-truth-10-years-894691|access-date=2020-11-19|website=www.hollywoodreporter.com|date=19 May 2016}}</ref> "I would never have predicted that a film like ''An Inconvenient Truth'' would impact so many people", Skoll told Philanthropy Roundtable.<ref name=":3" />
==Participant Productions==
Skoll is also the CEO of [[Participant Productions]], a [[Los Angeles]] based media company he created to fund feature films and documentaries that promote social values while still being commercially viable. Its first three films were ''[[Syriana]]'', ''[[Good Night, and Good Luck]]'', and ''[[North Country (film)|North Country]]'' along with the documentary ''[[Murderball (film)|Murderball]]''. These films accounted for 11 Oscar nominations in 2006. Subsequent films included ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'', ''[[American Gun]]'', ''[[Fast Food Nation]]'', and ''[[The World According to Sesame Street]]''. ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'' won two Oscars in 2007 and has been credited with extending the public debate over climate change. Further films for 2007 include ''[[Charlie Wilson's War]]'' with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, ''[[The Kite Runner]]'' directed by Marc Forster, ''[[An Indifferent World]]'' about Darfur with Don Cheadle, ''[[The Chicago 10]]'' based on the 1968 Democratic convention protests, ''[[Angels in the Dust]]'' about an AIDS orphanage in South Africa, [[Darfur Now]] about the [[genocide]] in Darfur with Don Cheadle and "''A Man from Plains''," a film about Jimmy Carter directed by Academy Award winning director Jonathan Demme.


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."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stern |first=Stefan |date=June 12, 2009 |title=Lunch with the FT: Jeff Skoll |url=https://www.ft.com/content/9bdfb524-56dd-11de-9a1c-00144feabdc0 |access-date=November 19, 2020 |website=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref> 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.)"<ref>{{Cite web|title=How this Canadian Billionaire Superhero Backs Heady Causes and Finances Serious Films|url=https://fortune.com/2010/10/18/jeff-skoll-becoming-superman/|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=Fortune|language=en}}</ref>
==Philanthropies==
Skoll is a noted [[philanthropist]] and has been honoured several times for his generosity. In [[2003]] he was given an honorary doctor of laws degree by the [[University of Toronto]]. He gave the eponymous [[Skoll Foundation]] $250 million of eBay stock. The Foundation supports "[[social entrepreneurship]]." Skoll chairs the Foundation and today makes grants in excess of $30M per year. The Skoll Foundation's assets rank it as the largest foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in the world.


Skoll has served as Executive Producer or Producer on nearly 100 Participant films, including ''[[Spotlight (film)|Spotlight]]'', ''[[Roma (2018 film)|Roma]]'', and ''[[American Factory]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.philanthropy.com/article/How-Participant-Media-Tries-to/247828 |title=How Participant Media Tries to Spark Social Change Through Film |access-date=November 19, 2020|website=www.philanthropy.com|date=January 10, 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ramos|first=Dino-Ray|date=January 13, 2020|title=The Obamas Congratulate 'American Factory' Filmmakers On Oscar Nomination, Say Docu Is What They "Hope To Achieve With Higher Ground"|url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/american-factory-oscar-nomination-documentary-barack-obama-michelle-obama-netflix-steven-bognar-julia-reichert-jeff-reichhert-1202828874/|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref> and as of 2019 Participant has won 18 [[Academy Awards|Oscars]] and received 73 Academy Award nominations.<ref>{{Cite web|title=18. Jeffrey Skoll {{!}} Los Angeles Business Journal|url=https://labusinessjournal.com/news/2019/sep/20/wealthiest-2019-18-jeffrey-skoll/|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=labusinessjournal.com|date=September 20, 2019 }}</ref> In 2020, the company received another Academy Award nomination and win for best documentary feature for ''American Factory''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Carey|first=Matthew|date=February 10, 2020|title='American Factory' Reaches Highest Ground With Oscar Documentary Feature Win|url=https://deadline.com/2020/02/america-factory-wins-oscar-best-documentary-feature-obamas-1202855601/|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref>
Skoll's largest charitable donation was a $7.5 million contribution to endow the first Canadian dual degree program for gifted students where they obtain a Bachelors degree in Engineering and an [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]] in a special program of six years and eight months at the [[University of Toronto]]. He has also funded the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at Said Business School, [[Oxford University]], which undertakes research in social entrepreneurship, co-ordinates the [[Skoll World Forum]] and provides scholarships for the Oxford MBA program to five young social entrepreneurs.


According to [[The Hollywood Reporter]], 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."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Weinstein|first=Shelli|date=November 12, 2014|title=Jeff Skoll, UCLA Launch Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment|url=https://variety.com/2014/biz/news/jeff-skoll-ucla-skoll-center-1201354704/|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Candid|title=Report Offers Guidance on Social Impact Entertainment|url=http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/report-offers-guidance-on-social-impact-entertainment|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=Philanthropy News Digest (PND)|language=en}}</ref>
Skoll is on the board of directors of the eBay Foundation and the [[Community Foundation Silicon Valley]], the Advisory board of the [[Stanford Graduate School of Business]] and several other community organizations.


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]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Participant's Jeff Skoll, David Linde to Receive Toronto Fest Tribute {{!}} Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/participants-jeff-skoll-david-linde-receive-toronto-fest-tribute-1221369|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=www.hollywoodreporter.com|date=June 27, 2019}}</ref> in 2020 the award was renamed the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media, and has continued to be awarded to filmmakers whose work has had a social impact as part of the [[TIFF Tribute Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Yap|first=Audrey Cleo|date=September 11, 2020|title=Director Mira Nair Addresses 'A Suitable Boy' White Writer Controversy|url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/mira-nair-andrew-davies-a-suitable-boy-controversy-1234766151/|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref>
Skoll's recent honors and awards include [[Time Magazine's 100 People of the Year]] (2006), [[Wired Magazine's Rave Award]] (2006), the [[National Leadership Award for Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley]] (2004) and the [[Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the International Association of Fundraising Professionals]] (2003). In 2003, Skoll was the commencement speaker and was awarded an honorary [[Doctor of Laws]] degree from the [[University of Toronto]].


Skoll announced in April 2024 that Participant was shuttering.<ref name="barnes-nyt-24">{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Brooks |title=Participant, Maker of Films With Social Conscience, Calls It Quits |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/media/participant-jeff-skoll.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 16, 2024}}</ref>
In addition, Skoll has financed [[The Gandhi Project]] in partnership with [[Relief International]] which created a dubbed version in [[Arabic language|Arabic]] of the film ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]''. They used Palestinian voice actors and artists to make the film particularly relevant to Palestinians. With Skoll's support, it is being screened throughout Palestine to promote non-violence, self-reliance, economic development, and empowerment.


==Other interests==
== Philanthropy ==
Skoll is a recipient of the [[Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy]], and a [[Giving Pledge]] signatory.<ref name="Paynter">{{Cite web|last=Paynter|first=Ben|date=June 27, 2017|title=Meet The Winners Of The Carnegie Medal Of Philanthropy|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/40435087/meet-the-winners-of-the-carnegie-medal-of-philanthropy|access-date=July 17, 2020|website=Fast Company|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="theglobeandmail.com">{{Cite news|title=Meet the Canadian billionaire who's giving it all away|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/meet-the-canadian-billionaire-whos-giving-it-all-away/article4209888/|access-date=July 17, 2020}}</ref> He has given the eponymous [[Skoll Foundation]] approximately $1 billion of eBay stock since its formation in 1999. The Foundation supports "[[social entrepreneurship]]".<ref>{{Cite web|title=An Open Letter To Jeff Skoll|url=https://www.opnlttr.com/letter/open-letter-jeff-skoll|access-date=July 17, 2020|website=Open Letter|language=en}}</ref>


As of 2020, Skoll has been working for over ten years to help prevent pandemics and other global threats.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dolan|first=Kerry A.|title=How The Billionaire Behind The Movie 'Contagion' Is Working To Stop This Pandemic—And The Next One|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2020/06/24/how-the-billionaire-behind-the-movie-contagion-is-working-to-stop-this-pandemic-and-the-next-one/|access-date=July 17, 2020|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name="philanthropy.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Jeff-Skoll-Adds-100-Million/248629|access-date=July 17, 2020|website=www.philanthropy.com |title=Jeff Skoll Adds $100 Million to His Efforts to Fight the Pandemic|date=April 24, 2020 }}</ref> The Fund created and spun off a stand-alone non-profit entity, Ending Pandemics, that focuses on pandemic detection and response.<ref name="Schultz">{{Cite web|last=Schultz|first=Abby|title=Jeff Skoll's $100M for Covid-19 Builds on Legacy Fighting Pandemics|url=https://www.barrons.com/articles/jeff-skolls-100m-for-covid-19-builds-on-legacy-fighting-pandemics-01588275503|access-date=July 17, 2020|website=www.barrons.com|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2011, Skoll's film company [[Participant (company)|Participant]] co-produced the film ''[[Contagion (2011 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 [[COVID-19 pandemic]] media coverage noted it was "shocking in its accuracy".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Farr|first=Christina|date=April 14, 2020|title=The medical advisors for the movie 'Contagion' saw a pandemic coming, but got one big thing wrong|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/14/contagion-movie-advisors-anticipated-pandemic.html|access-date=July 17, 2020|website=CNBC|language=en}}</ref>
Skoll has paid a deposit on a [[Tesla Roadster]] from [[Tesla Motors]]. It is a [[battery electric vehicle|battery electric sportscar]] with a 250 mile range. He will be among the first hundred owners.<ref>http://www.teslamotors.com/media/press_room.php?id=29</ref> He is also an investor in the company.


In January 2020, Skoll donated $20 million, and an additional $100 million in April, to the Skoll Foundation to combat the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name="Schultz"/><ref>{{Cite web|last=Dolan|first=Kerry A.|title=The Billionaire Behind The Movie 'Contagion' Just Gave $100 Million To Fight Coronavirus|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2020/04/28/the-billionaire-behind-the-movie-contagion-just-gave-100-million-to-fight-coronavirus/|access-date=July 17, 2020|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name="philanthropy.com"/>
==See also==

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.<ref name="barrons.com">{{Cite web|last=Schultz|first=Abby|title=How Co-Impact Collaborates for Change|url=https://www.barrons.com/articles/how-co-impact-collaborates-for-change-01561057063|date=June 20, 2019|access-date=July 31, 2020|website=Barron's|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2017, Skoll, joined with others to create Co-Impact, a philanthropic funding collaborative seeded with $500 million,<ref name="Bach">{{cite news |title=Some of the World's Top Billionaires Are Pooling Their Fortunes for a New Philanthropic Venture |last=Bach |first=Natasha |url=https://fortune.com/2017/11/15/bill-gates-melinda-rockefeller-skoll-wadhwani-chandler-co-impact/ |work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |date=November 15, 2017 |access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref> whose "specific aim is to fund organizations that are addressing health, education and economic opportunity in low-to-middle income countries".<ref name="barrons.com"/>

Similarly in 2018, Skoll, [[Chris Anderson (entrepreneur)|Chris Anderson]], 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.<ref name="Cheney">{{cite news |title=New $250M Audacious Project from TED announces first recipients |last=Cheney |first=Catherine |url=https://www.devex.com/news/new-250m-audacious-project-from-ted-announces-first-recipients-92495 |work=Devex |date=April 11, 2018 |access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref>

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 [[Oxford University]]'s Said Business School. The center is a research center, hub for innovators, and host of the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stern|first=Stefan|title=Lunch with the FT: Jeff Skoll|url=https://www.ft.com/content/9bdfb524-56dd-11de-9a1c-00144feabdc0|date=June 12, 2009|access-date=July 31, 2020|website=[[Financial Times]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Called the "Davos for the nonprofit set" by ''Forbes'',<ref name="DolanPhil">{{cite news |title=Questioning Big Philanthropy At The Skoll World Forum: Is It Too Powerful And Out Of Touch? |last=Dolan |first=Kerry A. |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2019/04/16/questioning-big-philanthropy-at-the-skoll-world-forum-is-it-too-powerful-and-out-of-touch/#684b2bf96253 |work=[[Forbes]] |date=April 16, 2019 |access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref> Skoll World Forum participants have included leading thinkers from South African Archbishop [[Desmond Tutu]] to former U.S. Vice President [[Al Gore]].<ref name="theglobeandmail.com"/> In 2019, Skoll also funded the creation of the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at the [[UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television]]. The center is dedicated to promoting social change through entertainment and the arts.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Weinstein|first=Shelli|title=Jeff Skoll, UCLA Launch Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment|url=https://variety.com/2014/biz/news/jeff-skoll-ucla-skoll-center-1201354704/|date=November 12, 2014|access-date=July 31, 2020|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2005, Skoll financed The Gandhi Project in partnership with Relief International which created a dubbed version in [[Arabic language|Arabic]] of the film ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harris|first=Dana|date=April 6, 2005|title='Gandhi' in Mideast|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/gandhi-in-mideast-1117920653/|access-date=July 17, 2020|website=Variety|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/Degrees/MastersPrograms/JointDegrees/SkollMBA/About-the-Skoll-MBA|title=Uniting science, technology and business skills|publisher=Rotman|access-date=January 19, 2022}}</ref>

===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.<ref name="Dolan">{{Cite web|last=Dolan|first=Kerry|title=One Of Impact Investing's Earliest Proponents, Jeff Skoll Invests Big Money To Combat Climate Change|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2018/10/03/one-of-impact-investings-earliest-proponents-jeff-skoll-invests-big-money-to-combat-climate-change/#732fd78222c0|date=October 3, 2018|access-date=July 31, 2020|website=[[Forbes]]|language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref name="TSR">{{cite news |title=Capricorn Investment Group Pours Billions Into Impact Investing |url=https://www.thesoftwarereport.com/capricorn-investment-group-pours-billions-into-impact-investing/ |work=The Software Report |date=May 6, 2019 |access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref> According to [[Forbes]], 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 [[climate change mitigation|combat climate change]]".<ref name="Dolan"/> Capricorn's early investments included electric carmaker [[Tesla, Inc.]], battery technology developer QuantumScape, and air taxi developer [[Joby Aviation]].<ref name="Dolan"/> Other investments include private equity fund Encourage Solar Finance to promote rooftop solar installations in India.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Impact 50|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/2019/10/02/impact-50-5-billion-and-more/#4d2e911017d3|date=October 2, 2019|access-date=July 31, 2020|website=[[Forbes]]|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2016, Skoll, along with [[Bono]] 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".<ref name="Sorkin">{{cite news |title=A New Fund Seeks Both Financial and Social Returns |last=Sorkin |first=Andrew Ross |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/business/dealbook/a-new-fund-seeks-both-financial-and-social-returns.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 19, 2016 |access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref> 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".<ref name="SchultzRise">{{cite news |title=Future Returns: How TPG's Rise Fund Invests in Energy |last=Schultz |first=Abby |url=https://www.barrons.com/articles/future-returns-how-tpg-growths-rise-fund-invests-in-energy-01569953521 |work=[[Barron's (newspaper)|Barron's]] |date=October 1, 2019 |access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref>

== Other activities ==
In November 2022, Skoll bought a minority stake in [[Monumental Sports & Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wallace |first1=Ava |title=Billionaire Jeff Skoll joins Monumental Sports as minority investor |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/11/29/jeff-skoll-monumental-sports/ |access-date=November 28, 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=November 28, 2022}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
In 2014, Skoll married television executive Stephanie Swedlove.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/jeff-skoll-participant-interview-1201463011/|title=Jeff Skoll Aims to Fix Participant's 'Broken' Parts|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=James|last=Rainey|date=May 31, 2015|access-date=November 23, 2020}}</ref> In January 2019, it was announced Skoll had filed for divorce from Swedlove.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theblast.com/roma-producer-billionaire-jeff-skoll-divorce/|title='ROMA' Producer, Billionaire Jeff Skoll Files for Divorce|website=The Blast|date=January 16, 2019|access-date=November 23, 2020}}</ref>

== Honors and awards ==
* [[Bloomberg Businessweek|Bloomberg Business Week]]'s list of most innovative philanthropists (2002–present)<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks|title=Stocks|website=Bloomberg.com|access-date=December 26, 2016}}</ref>
* National Leadership Award for Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley (2004)<ref name=":1" />
* Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the International Association of Fundraising Professionals (2003)<ref name=":1" />
* Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (2002)<ref name=":1" />
* [[Honorary degree|Honorary Doctor of Laws degree]] from the [[University of Toronto]] (2003)<ref name=":1" />
* Time Magazine's 100 People of the Year (2006)<ref name=":1" />
* Wired Magazine's Rave Award (2006)<ref name=":1" />
* He was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] "for his generous commitment to social causes and for his innovative practice of philanthropy."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/meet-the-canadian-billionaire-whos-giving-it-all-away/article4209888/|title=Meet the Canadian billionaire who's giving it all away|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|access-date=December 26, 2016}}</ref> (2011)<ref name=":1" />
* Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy (2017) <ref>{{Cite web|title=Jeff Skoll Awarded Carnegie Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Philanthropy|url=https://www.medalofphilanthropy.org/in-the-news|access-date=August 13, 2022|website=Medal of Philanthropy|language=en}}</ref>

== Filmography ==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes
|-
| 2004 || ''[[House of D]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2005 || ''[[Good Night, and Good Luck]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[North Country (film)|North Country]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Syriana]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[American Gun (2005 film)|American Gun]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="3"| 2006 || ''[[The World According to Sesame Street]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Fast Food Nation (film)|Fast Food Nation]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="8"| 2007 || ''[[Chicago 10 (film)|Chicago 10]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Angels in the Dust]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Man from Plains]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Darfur Now]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Kite Runner (film)|The Kite Runner]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Charlie Wilson's War (film)|Charlie Wilson's War]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Visitor (2007 drama film)|The Visitor]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Man from Plains]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="3"| 2008 || ''[[Standard Operating Procedure (film)|Standard Operating Procedure]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Pressure Cooker (2008 film)|Pressure Cooker]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Food, Inc.]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2009 || ''[[The Soloist]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Informant!]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="7"| 2010 || ''[[The Crazies (2010 film)|The Crazies]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Furry Vengeance]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Waiting for "Superman"]] || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Fair Game (2010 film)|Fair Game]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Countdown to Zero]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Cane Toads: The Conquest]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Casino Jack and the United States of Money]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="5"| 2011 || ''[[The Beaver (film)|The Beaver]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Help (film)|The Help]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Contagion (2011 film)|Contagion]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''Last Call at the Oasis'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="5"| 2012 || ''[[A Place at the Table (film)|A Place at the Table]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[State 194 (film)|State 194]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Lincoln (2012 film)|Lincoln]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Promised Land (2012 film)|Promised Land]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[No (2012 film)|No]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="5"| 2013 || ''[[Snitch (film)|Snitch]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Made in America (2013 film)|Made in America]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Fifth Estate (film)|The Fifth Estate]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Square (2013 film)|The Square]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Unknown Known]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="10"| 2014 || ''[[Cesar Chavez (film)|Ceaser Chavez]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''The Great Invisible'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Misconception (film)|Misconception]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Prophet (2014 film)|The Prophet]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Ardor]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Hundred-Foot Journey (film)|The Hundred-Foot Journey]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Out of the Dark (2014 film)|Out of the Dark]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Merchants of Doubt (film)|Merchants of Doubt]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Citizenfour]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[A Most Violent Year]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="7"| 2015 || ''[[3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[He Named Me Malala]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Bridge of Spies (film)|Bridge of Spies]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Beasts of No Nation (film)|Beasts of No Nation]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Our Brand Is Crisis (2015 film)|Our Brand Is Crisis]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Spotlight (film)|Spotlight]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="10"| 2016 || ''[[Zero Days]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''The Music of Strangers'' || executive producer
|-
| ''Death by a Thousand Cuts'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Neruda (film)|Neruda]]'' || producer
|-
| ''[[The Light Between Oceans (film)|The Light Between Oceans]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Denial (2016 film)|Denial]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Deepwater Horizon (film)|Deepwater Horizon]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (film)|Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[A Monster Calls (film)|A Monster Calls]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''Midsommer in Newtown'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="7"| 2017 || ''[[An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power]]'' || producer
|-
| ''Melting Ice'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[A Fantastic Woman]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Shot Caller (film)|Shot Caller]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Human Flow]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Far from the Tree]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Wonder (film)|Wonder]]'' || executive producer
|-
| rowspan="8" | 2018 || ''[[The Price of Free]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[7 Days in Entebbe]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''Foster'' || executive producer
|-
| ''This is Climate Change'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Roma (2018 film)|Roma]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''Aquarela'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Green Book (film)|Green Book]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[On the Basis of Sex]]'' || executive producer
|-
| rowspan="8"| 2019 || ''[[The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[American Factory]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Captive State]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''Watson'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Slay the Dragon]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Just Mercy]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''Sing Me a Song'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Dark Waters (2019 film)|Dark Waters]]'' || executive producer
|-
| rowspan="4"| 2020 || ''[[John Lewis: Good Trouble]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Final Account (film)|Final Account]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[American Utopia (film)|American Utopia]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Totally Under Control]]'' || executive producer
|-
| rowspan="8"| 2021 || ''[[My Name is Pauli Murray]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Judas and the Black Messiah]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Unseen Skies]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''White Coat Rebels'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Stillwater (film)|Stillwater]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[Costa Brava, Lebanon]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The Good House (film)|The Good House]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[The First Wave (film)|The First Wave]]'' || executive producer
|-
|rowspan="5" | 2022 || ''[[Descendant (2022 film)|Descendant]]'' || executive producer
|-
| '''¡Viva Maestro!'' || executive producer
|-
| ''Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[A Compassionate Spy]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[All the Beauty and the Bloodshed]]'' || executive producer
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2023 || ''[[White Bird (film)|White Bird]]'' || executive producer
|-
| ''[[We Grown Now]]'' || executive producer
|-
| TBA || ''[[Rob Peace]]'' || executive producer
|-
|}

===TV series===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes
|-
| 2013 || ''Jersey Strong'' || executive producer
|-
| 2013 || ''Teach'' || executive producer
|-
| 2014 || ''[[HitRecord on TV]]'' || executive producer
|-
| 2014 || ''Human Resources'' || executive producer
|-
| 2014–2016 || ''[[Please Like Me]]'' || executive producer
|-
| 2015–2016 || ''Angry Planet'' || executive producer
|-
| 2015 || ''Secret Lives of Americans'' || executive producer
|-
| 2016 || ''Truth to Power'' || executive producer
|-
| 2018 || ''[[America to Me]]'' || executive producer
|-
| 2019 || ''[[When They See Us]]'' || executive producer
|-
| 2020 || ''[[Noughts + Crosses]]'' || executive producer
|-
| 2020 || ''[[City So Real]]'' || executive producer
|-
| 2022 || ''[[Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey]]'' || executive producer
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of billionaires]]
* [[List of billionaires]]
* [[List of Canadians]]
* [[List of University of Toronto people]]
* [[List of Stanford University people]]


==References==
== References ==
{{reflist}}
===General references===
*[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1681324,00.html The Observer - ''Hollywood's new politics''] [[Gaby Wood]], January 8, 2006
*[http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/PB9U.html Forbes - ''The World's Richest People''] February 13, 2006


== External links ==
===Specific references===
* [http://www.skollfoundation.org Skoll Foundation]
<references/>
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100928221544/http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/skoll/Pages/default.aspx Skoll Centre, Oxford University]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050822141305/http://www.participantproductions.com/ Participant Productions]
* {{IMDb name|1568142}}
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/170 My journey into movies that matter], talk at [[TED (conference)|TED]] March 2007
* Wood, Gaby, [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1681324,00.html The Observer – ''Hollywood's new politics''], January 8, 2006
*[https://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/PB9U.html Forbes – "The World's Richest People"] February 13, 2006
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060827172507/http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2004/LIR.jhtml?passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=PB9U&datatype=Person Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People 2004]
* [http://www.transformationalleadershiphq.com/jeff-skoll-and-the-changing-face-of-philanthropy/ Jeff Skoll and Philanthropy], ''transformationalleadershiphq.com''


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Jeffrey Skoll
OC
Skoll in 2013
Born (1965-01-16) January 16, 1965 (age 59)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Stanford University
Occupations
Spouse
Stephanie Swedlove
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(m. 2014; div. 2019)​

Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965)[1] is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer. He was the first president of eBay, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and his media company Participant Media. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from University of Toronto in 1987 and left Canada to attend Stanford University's business school in 1993.

Shortly after graduating from business school, he began his career at eBay where he wrote the business plan 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.[2][3] With an estimated net worth of US$4 billion (as of December 2016), Skoll was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 134th in the United States.[4]

Through his former film production company, Participant–of which he was founder, owner, and chairman–he produced numerous critically acclaimed films. His first films Syriana (2005), Good Night, and Good Luck (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 (2006), Fast Food Nation (2006), The World According to Sesame Street (2006), Waiting for "Superman" (2010), Lincoln (2012), and his latest, Spotlight (2015) won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016.[5]

Early life[edit]

Jeff Skoll was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[6][7][8] His mother was a teacher[2] and his father was a chemical company owner who sold industrial chemicals.[9] The family settled in Toronto in the late seventies. When Skoll was fourteen, his father was diagnosed with cancer 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 BASc with honours in 1987 from the University of Toronto's electrical engineering 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 North York, Ontario. After graduating he backpacked around the world for several months before returning and founding two businesses in Toronto: Skoll Engineering, an information technology consulting firm and Micros on the Move Ltd., a computer rental firm. He left Canada in 1993 to earn a Master of Business Administration degree at Stanford Business School, graduating in 1995. After Stanford he went to work at Knight-Ridder where he was working on internet projects for the publishing company.[10]

Skoll's eBay era[edit]

Further information: eBay

In 1996 Skoll met eBay's founder Pierre Omidyar, 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 business plan that eBay followed in subsequent years. He remained President until the arrival of Meg Whitman 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.[2][3]

Participant[edit]

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.[11][12] In 2005, Skoll's first Participant productions were released, with Syriana; Good Night, and Good Luck; North Country; and Murderball, together garnering 11 Oscar nominations.[13] A year later, Skoll financed and played a key role in the creation of the environmental documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which grew out of a slideshow developed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on the climate crisis. The film won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary.[14] "I would never have predicted that a film like An Inconvenient Truth would impact so many people", Skoll told Philanthropy Roundtable.[13]

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."[15] 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.)"[16]

Skoll has served as Executive Producer or Producer on nearly 100 Participant films, including Spotlight, Roma, and American Factory,[17][18] and as of 2019 Participant has won 18 Oscars and received 73 Academy Award nominations.[19] In 2020, the company received another Academy Award nomination and win for best documentary feature for American Factory.[20]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 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."[21] 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."[22]

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;[23] in 2020 the award was renamed the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media, and has continued to be awarded to filmmakers whose work has had a social impact as part of the TIFF Tribute Awards.[24]

Skoll announced in April 2024 that Participant was shuttering.[25]

Philanthropy[edit]

Skoll is a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, and a Giving Pledge signatory.[26][27] He has given the eponymous Skoll Foundation approximately $1 billion of eBay stock since its formation in 1999. The Foundation supports "social entrepreneurship".[28]

As of 2020, Skoll has been working for over ten years to help prevent pandemics and other global threats.[29] 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.[30] The Fund created and spun off a stand-alone non-profit entity, Ending Pandemics, that focuses on pandemic detection and response.[31] In 2011, Skoll's film company Participant 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 COVID-19 pandemic media coverage noted it was "shocking in its accuracy".[32]

In January 2020, Skoll donated $20 million, and an additional $100 million in April, to the Skoll Foundation to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.[31][33] 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.[30]

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.[34] In 2017, Skoll, joined with others to create Co-Impact, a philanthropic funding collaborative seeded with $500 million,[35] whose "specific aim is to fund organizations that are addressing health, education and economic opportunity in low-to-middle income countries".[34]

Similarly in 2018, Skoll, Chris Anderson, 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.[36]

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 Oxford University's Said Business School. The center is a research center, hub for innovators, and host of the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.[37] Called the "Davos for the nonprofit set" by Forbes,[38] Skoll World Forum participants have included leading thinkers from South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.[27] In 2019, Skoll also funded the creation of the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. The center is dedicated to promoting social change through entertainment and the arts.[39]

In 2005, Skoll financed The Gandhi Project in partnership with Relief International which created a dubbed version in Arabic of the film Gandhi.[40] 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.[41]

Impact investing[edit]

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.[42] 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.[43] According to Forbes, 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".[42] Capricorn's early investments included electric carmaker Tesla, Inc., battery technology developer QuantumScape, and air taxi developer Joby Aviation.[42] Other investments include private equity fund Encourage Solar Finance to promote rooftop solar installations in India.[44]

In 2016, Skoll, along with Bono 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".[45] 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".[46]

Other activities[edit]

In November 2022, Skoll bought a minority stake in Monumental Sports & Entertainment.[47]

Personal life[edit]

In 2014, Skoll married television executive Stephanie Swedlove.[48] In January 2019, it was announced Skoll had filed for divorce from Swedlove.[49]

Honors and awards[edit]

  • Bloomberg Business Week's list of most innovative philanthropists (2002–present)[1]
  • National Leadership Award for Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley (2004)[1]
  • Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the International Association of Fundraising Professionals (2003)[1]
  • Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (2002)[1]
  • Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto (2003)[1]
  • Time Magazine's 100 People of the Year (2006)[1]
  • Wired Magazine's Rave Award (2006)[1]
  • He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his generous commitment to social causes and for his innovative practice of philanthropy."[50] (2011)[1]
  • Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy (2017) [51]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year Title Notes
2004 House of D executive producer
2005 Good Night, and Good Luck executive producer
North Country executive producer
Syriana executive producer
American Gun executive producer
2006 The World According to Sesame Street executive producer
An Inconvenient Truth executive producer
Fast Food Nation executive producer
2007 Chicago 10 executive producer
Angels in the Dust executive producer
Man from Plains executive producer
Darfur Now executive producer
The Kite Runner executive producer
Charlie Wilson's War executive producer
The Visitor executive producer
Man from Plains executive producer
2008 Standard Operating Procedure executive producer
Pressure Cooker executive producer
Food, Inc. executive producer
2009 The Soloist executive producer
The Informant! executive producer
2010 The Crazies executive producer
Furry Vengeance executive producer
Waiting for "Superman" executive producer
Fair Game executive producer
Countdown to Zero executive producer
Cane Toads: The Conquest executive producer
Casino Jack and the United States of Money executive producer
2011 The Beaver executive producer
The Help executive producer
Contagion executive producer
Last Call at the Oasis executive producer
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel executive producer
2012 A Place at the Table executive producer
State 194 executive producer
Lincoln executive producer
Promised Land executive producer
No executive producer
2013 Snitch executive producer
Made in America executive producer
The Fifth Estate executive producer
The Square executive producer
The Unknown Known executive producer
2014 Ceaser Chavez executive producer
The Great Invisible executive producer
Misconception executive producer
The Prophet executive producer
The Ardor executive producer
The Hundred-Foot Journey executive producer
Out of the Dark executive producer
Merchants of Doubt executive producer
Citizenfour executive producer
A Most Violent Year executive producer
2015 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets executive producer
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel executive producer
He Named Me Malala executive producer
Bridge of Spies executive producer
Beasts of No Nation executive producer
Our Brand Is Crisis executive producer
Spotlight executive producer
2016 Zero Days executive producer
The Music of Strangers executive producer
Death by a Thousand Cuts executive producer
Neruda producer
The Light Between Oceans executive producer
Denial executive producer
Deepwater Horizon executive producer
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life executive producer
A Monster Calls executive producer
Midsommer in Newtown executive producer
2017 An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power producer
Melting Ice executive producer
A Fantastic Woman executive producer
Shot Caller executive producer
Human Flow executive producer
Far from the Tree executive producer
Wonder executive producer
2018 The Price of Free executive producer
7 Days in Entebbe executive producer
Foster executive producer
This is Climate Change executive producer
Roma executive producer
Aquarela executive producer
Green Book executive producer
On the Basis of Sex executive producer
2019 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind executive producer
American Factory executive producer
Captive State executive producer
Watson executive producer
Slay the Dragon executive producer
Just Mercy executive producer
Sing Me a Song executive producer
Dark Waters executive producer
2020 John Lewis: Good Trouble executive producer
Final Account executive producer
American Utopia executive producer
Totally Under Control executive producer
2021 My Name is Pauli Murray executive producer
Judas and the Black Messiah executive producer
Unseen Skies executive producer
White Coat Rebels executive producer
Stillwater executive producer
Costa Brava, Lebanon executive producer
The Good House executive producer
The First Wave executive producer
2022 Descendant executive producer
'¡Viva Maestro! executive producer
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power executive producer
A Compassionate Spy executive producer
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed executive producer
2023 White Bird executive producer
We Grown Now executive producer
TBA Rob Peace executive producer

TV series[edit]

Year Title Notes
2013 Jersey Strong executive producer
2013 Teach executive producer
2014 HitRecord on TV executive producer
2014 Human Resources executive producer
2014–2016 Please Like Me executive producer
2015–2016 Angry Planet executive producer
2015 Secret Lives of Americans executive producer
2016 Truth to Power executive producer
2018 America to Me executive producer
2019 When They See Us executive producer
2020 Noughts + Crosses executive producer
2020 City So Real executive producer
2022 Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey executive producer

See also[edit]

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