AGENDA SETTERS - WHO ARE THE DRIVING FORCES IN THE TECH INDUSTRY?

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Agenda Setters 2005
TOP 50
Jeff Skoll

No. 35 Jeff Skoll, founding eBay president and philanthropist

Last year's position: Not placed

Though eBay's CEO Meg Whitman ranks a few spots higher, Jeff Skoll also gets the nod from the Agenda Setters panel for being the man who wrote the company's original business plan - which it still follows to this day.

It is this model that has allowed eBay to spawn an entire ecosystem of buyers and sellers - sometimes businesses in their own right - that trade through its online marketplace.

The framework Skoll constructed is having real economic impact. eBay claims nearly three-quarters of a million Americans make their living in its online marketplace, while others estimate UK households could make an average of £3000 per year by selling household goods via online auctions.

eBay's even affecting consumer electronics prices, according to the panel, by giving transparency to secondary market pricing, which in turn controls how much manufacturers charge for brand-new goods.

Since leaving eBay, Skoll has also become an active philanthropist, having founded the charitable eBay Foundation and then his own Skoll Foundation for funding worthwhile causes.

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"China clearly has many dimensions and many are setting an agenda. It's at the political level, it's at the investment level, it's at the contract manufacturing level and it's at the software level - it's all over."
--Peter Rowell, Regent Associates executive chairman and Agenda Setters panellist


AGENDA SETTERS .EXTRA

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Ballmer: Microsoft 'not above learning from others' eWeek


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