Many people help in this world, many of which help them with
food and shelter to people at night. Others help taking medicine and healing.
These are people who go out of their way to help people in need, the kind of
person I admire them for their dedication. But there is a Eastern saying that
says Anonymous: "Do not give fish, but show them how to fish",
knowing that these people may have lost in their investments, but they are a
commitment to the common good so that everyone can get by themselves their
bread, and is another way of giving that is extraordinary. These kinds of
people I admire them even more. But amid all these kinds of people, is a person
who does what few people do "Gives fish while teaching you to fish",
and such people are what make the difference
You can find information about Pierre Omidyar of eBay or
anywhere on the internet if you want to know how EBay started. What makes a person
different is their way of giving, which is not satisfied that you catch fish
but you know better than anyone. Omidyar says the greatest advice I received
about philanthropy was "Do not become a foundation", so his group
Omidyar Network does not function as a foundation of charity, but as a venture
capital company.
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated
to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve
their lives. Established in 2004, the organization invests in and helps scale
innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social and political. To date,
Omidyar Network has committed more than $ 270 million to commercial and
nonprofit organizations in advance to promote economic development and
encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including
microfinance and property rights.
Another major investment of this group is dedicated to
government transparency, as is the case in Latin America, "Smart Citizen
Foundation" you can find them on your page
http://www.ciudadanointeligente.org. Here you can see the portfolio (selection
of financial instruments for investment) http://www.omidyar.com/portfolio
Omidyar Network. Sometimes your help has multiplied effects as in the case of
fund of 100 million dollars to his alma mater, Tufts University; this is
projected to become one billion dollars to be used as micro loans.
Although EBay sometimes has a reputation for being a bit
fraudulent, there is no denying the economic impact it has had on thousands of
people who have quit their jobs and started an eBay store. In 2007, about
650,000 were estimated EBay stores, a number that may have lost or gained over
the years, but we can say that more than half a million people are no longer
employed and start their own company. Amid the number of shops are thousands of
stories of disabled single mothers with sick children, and people who otherwise
had an impediment to progress financially.
Ironically, as companies start, supposedly one of the
reasons why I think to EBay was to help his girlfriend get rid of some of their
belongings. The first sale of the EBay auction was a laser printer failed and
was sold for around U.S. $ 14.00, Omidyar call the winner to make sure and
clarify that it was a printer that is faulty, he replied: "I'm a collector
of laser printers damaged ".
No matter how you started, but he has done with his success
and Omidyar Network that not only strives to help the traditional, but also in
aspects avece overlooked as we keep our government transparent and avoids
corruption. That makes Omidyar Network and its founder Pierre Omidyar not only
great people, but also different.
Note: Thanks to Omidyar.com for information, for information
and photography Barrons.com.
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