The Pez is a Lie
hroughout the centuries, men have always tried to impress their girlfriends, and this was no different for Pierre Omidyar. Wanting to impress and help out his then-girlfriend in collecting Pez dispenser, Omidyar set in motion a career trajectory that would turn him into a billionaire. Yet let’s go back to the beginning. Born in Paris in 1967, Pierre Omidyar soon found himself in Baltimore, USA when his father relocated his entire family to begin his medical residency at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. From an early age, Omidyar had a fond interest in computers and the potential they had within them. During his high-school years, Omidyar would sneak out of physical-education classes to secretly go play on the school computers. He was busted of course, but thankfully his principal was a man that could see potential and instead of punishing the young ambitious teen, he hired him to write a computer program to print catalog cards for the school library at $6 per
