16. Pierre Omidyar
Company: eBay, PayPal, Omidyar Network
Net Worth: $17.7 billion*
Pierre Omidyar is an Iranian-American billionaire multi-hyphenate. He is a tech entrepreneur, philanthropist, and software investor with a net worth of $17.7 billion. He is one of the founders of eBay, an e-commerce site that lets people buy and trade pretty much anything they can think of.
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Omidyar and his wife, Pam, are also dedicated philanthropists who own the Omidyar Network of charities. Currently, Omidyar sits on the board of eBay, nearly thirty years after he first founded the digital company. He not only owns five percent of eBay, he also holds a six-percent stake in the payment site PayPal.