Pierre Morad Omidyar (Persian:پیر مراد امیدیار,born June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian American entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist, and the founder/chairman of the eBay auction site. Omidyar and his wife Pam are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy.