In a tech culture generally teeming with boisterous and astronomical billionaires, it’s been rather easy to forget about Pierre Omidyar, the reclusive eBay founder, worth $25 billion, who helped jumpstart the careers of loudmouths like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel when he bought PayPal nearly twenty years ago. Omdiyar has largely fallen off the map since his $250 million adventure into media, which included memorable dust-ups with Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. He hasn’t tweeted since 2019, when he locked his account after years of quotidien anti-Trump messages. Instead, he and his wife, Pam, have busied themselves overseeing a multi-billion dollar philanthropic empire from a remote estate outside Honolulu, where Omidyar keeps his Gulfstream G650 and a small security force. “I do like to fly under the radar,” he said in a rare 2009 interview.