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Pierre Omidyar and I have a lot in common

It appears as though I have a lot more in common with Pierre Omidyar, the original founder of EBay, than I thought! Perhaps there is a bit of wishful thinking here but we were both born abroad to Iranian parents, we both have a passion for Internet technologies, maintain personal blogs and, most importantly, we both believe it is possible to do good socially while doing well economically.

Today, Jessica Guynn of the SF Chronicle discussed this last commonality in her article “Responsibility is in their sites“. Thank you Jessica for picking up on this trend. I look forward to one day catching up live with Pierre and the other visionary social entrepreneurs from the article.