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Jeff Skoll: Doing Good Business
Jeff Skoll: Doing Good Business
Jeff Skoll achieved notoriety as the first president and second full-time employee of the internet auction company, eBay. He became a man with a mission after getting a wakeup call at the age of 14 when his father discovered he had cancer. His father's main regret was that he had not done everything he wanted to with his life.
Using Entrepreneurialism to Support a Dream
While a student, Skoll found it disturbing that most of his friends prioritized getting high paying jobs after graduation, regardless of those jobs being in alignment with a higher sense of purpose or not. He firmly believed that he could not put off living his dreams.
His was to be a writer, which led him to entrepreneurialism as a means to support his need to share the stories he was compelled to write, inspiring people to get involved in taking on the issues that mattered.
Along the way the he tried out a few businesses that did not take off in the way he expected.
"But I kept my eye firmly on the path that I had set for myself, and when my friend Pierre Omidyar approached me with his idea for eBay, I was very sure of what to do. With my newly minted Stanford degree in hand, I said 'Pierre, what a stupid idea!' Fortunately, I soon realized that Pierre was onto something and we then left our jobs to pursue eBay as a fulltime company."
Skoll's involvement in eBay gave him the resources to launch his story-telling venture on a grandiose scale. He formed Participant Media and began to produce films that stimulate social change. The first three to hit the big screen were Syriana, Good Night, and Good Luck and North Country.
The entrepreneur has gained global recognition as an exceedingly generous philanthropist and established the Skoll Foundation - a foundation for social change through business ventures. His philosophy is optimistic, supporting the notion that a dismal future only exists in the minds of those that indulge in gloomy thinking, and that everyone alive has the ability to bring about improvements in the global situation.
"Not everyone can be Gandhi, but each of us has the power to make sure our own lives count - and it's those millions of lives that will ultimately build a better world."
Make Your Life Count
Skoll's bit of advice to entrepreneurs is something he says he was given by one of his teachers early on. That is to write your own epitaph - the words you would like to have said about you when you leave this world. Then work backwards so that your life's work adds up to what you wrote. As an aside, the businessman enjoys his wealth as much as he enjoys giving it away. He is the proud owner of the Tesla Roadster, an electric sports car with a 250 mile range. He is also an investor in Tesla Motors.
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Ilya Bodner
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About the Author
Over the course of the last 5 years as an entrepreneur I have successfully launched, managed, and sold off several businesses. Each organization started has added some value to my understanding of the business world today. My philosophy has been that 9 things out of 10 that I try will fail, but that golden one is always worth the battle. In my experience that has proven to be the case and my successful businesses still operate today under the management of those whom I have sold off to. The latest project is Initial Underwriting Group, a corporation comprised of two concepts: 1) business credit building and 2) business loan underwriting.
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Why did the FBI and the Secret Service raid libertydollar.org???
From: truth@libertydollar.org Subject: FBI Raids Liberty Dollar – Confiscates All Ron Paul Dollars
Dear Liberty Dollar Supporters:
I sincerely regret to inform you that about 8:00 this morning a dozen FBI and Secret Service agents raided the Liberty Dollar office in Evansville.
For approximately six hours they took all the gold, all the silver, all the platinum and almost two tons of Ron Paul Dollars that where just delivered last Friday. They also took all the files, all the computers and froze our bank accounts. all the gold and silver that backs up the paper certificates and digital currency held in the vault at Sunshine Mint has also been confiscated. Even the dies for mint the Gold and Silver Libertys have been taken.
This in spite of the fact that Edmond C. Moy, the Director of the Mint, acknowledged in a letter to a US Senator that the paper certificates did not violate Section 486 and were not illegal. But the FBI and Services took all the paper currency too. ..
Because the government is super pissed off that Ron Paul is speaking to the people in plain English and explaining to us how the government has been, and continues to use and rip us off our hard earned money.
PCAN: - If laws are that simple, then why are we debating the pardoning of twenty million ILLEGALS that broke a law (perhaps as did libertydollar.org) - why does one get punished and the other not??? Why do we go to Iraq to "liberate" people that did not ask for our help and yet ignore the pleas for help from people in Burma, Pakistan and other parts of the world who truly need the protection of the supposedly "strong"? Why the double-standards?