Hawaii's Omidyar moves up on Forbes list of world's billionaires

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who owns hundreds of acres of land on Kauai’s North Shore, held on to his No. 5 ranking on Forbes’ 2018 ranking of the world’s billionaires, while eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Hawaii’s only full-time resident on the list, moved up nearly 20 slots as his fortune grew by some $2.5 billion.

Omidyar, a Honolulu resident who founded eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) as well as Honolulu Civil Beat and Ulupono Initiative, moved up to No. 145 this year with a net worth of $10.5 billion,…

Source: Arizona Business Journal