#9. Pierre Omidyar
Net Worth: $8.1 billion
Country of Origin: France
Company: eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY)
Up next in our list of most successful immigrant in USA and their companies we have Omidyar who arrived to the U.S. in 1973, at the age of six, and became a billionaire in 1998, aged 31, when the company he founded, eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) went public. He then served as the Chairman of the Board from 1998 to 2015. He still remains a Director at the company, as well as at its spin-off Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL). The entrepreneur also founded First Look Media and, most recently, a venture capital firm named Omidyar Technology Ventures.
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