I have read a lot about Jeff Skoll and the Skoll Foundation, but have never actually seen him or heard him speak. Just some context, Jeff Skoll graduated from Stanford Business School in 1995 and met eBay’s founder Pierre Omidyar who hired him as the company’s first president. He remained President until the arrival of Meg Whitman in January 1998. After that he started the Skoll Foundation which now ranks as the largest foundation for social entrepreneurship in the world. In 2003, he created Participant Productions, a Los Angeles based media company, which fund feature films and documentaries that promote social values. Some of these films include Charlie Wilson’s War, The Kite Runner, and An Inconvenient Truth.
This TEDtalk was really inspirational and his enthusiasm and passion really shone throughout his short speech. Check it out:
“Everybody has the opportunity to make change in their own way… There is never one right way to make change.” – Jeff Skoll
Read the full article: Jeff Skoll – The Social Rainmaker