EBay Founder Tweets About an Unusual Lawsuit
Leave it to Twitter, the microblogging service, to persuade a stubbornly private billionaire to chronicle his daily activities in short, 140-character bursts.
That is what has happened to Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder, philanthropist and start-up investor. For more than a decade he has mostly preferred to stay below the public radar, but for the last two years he has been happily Twittering his life at twitter.com/pierre.
In between the predictable details of mundane life as a very wealthy man – video games with his family, flip-flopping on whether to grow a beard – Mr. Omidyar has divulged that he is being sued by a former employee.
“Ok, now I’ve seen everything,” Mr. Omidyar wrote earlier this week. “I’m being sued by someone who claims I’ve been palling around with terrorists.”
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