Name: 【TED】Jeff Skoll: Making movies that make change
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Past simple

And in fact, in 2000, I was ready to talk about eBay, but no call.

about the Skoll Foundation and social entrepreneurship. No call.

In 2004, I started Participant Productions

and we had a really good first year, and no call.

and then I have to go up after J.J. Abrams.

When I first moved to Hollywood from Silicon Valley,

But I found that there were some advantages to being in Hollywood.

And, in fact, some advantages to owning your own media company.

And I also found that Hollywood and Silicon Valley

have a lot more in common than I would have dreamed.

Hollywood has its sex symbols, and the Valley has its sex symbols.

Hollywood has its rivalries, and the Valley has its rivalries.

and the Valley gathers around power tables.

So it turned out there was a lot more in common

But I'm actually here today to tell a story.

And part of it is a personal story. When Chris invited me to speak,

he said, people think of you as a bit of an enigma,

and they want to know what drives you a bit.

And what really drives me is a vision of the future

It's a world of peace and prosperity and sustainability.

And when we heard a lot of the presentations

Ed Wilson and the pictures of James Nachtwey,

I think we all realized how far we have to go

And it's also something that resides in each of us,

are the two big calamities in the world today.

this gap that President Clinton last night

called uneven, unfair and unsustainable --

and, out of that, comes poverty and illiteracy and disease

and all these evils that we see around us.

But perhaps the other, bigger gap is what we call the hope gap.

And someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea

that an ordinary individual couldn't make a difference in the world.

And I think that's just a horrible thing.

And so chapter one really begins today, with all of us,

because within each of us is the power to

equal those opportunity gaps and to close the hope gaps.

can't make a difference in the world, I don't know who can.

And for me, a lot of this started when I was younger

and my family used to go camping in upstate New York.

And there really wasn't much to do there for the summer,

except get beaten up by my sister or read books.

And so I used to read authors like James Michener

And their stories made the world seem a very small

And it struck me that if I could write stories

that were about this world as being small and interconnected,

that maybe I could get people interested in the issues

that affected us all, and maybe engage them to make a difference.

I didn't think that was necessarily the best way to make a living,

so I decided to go on a path to become financially independent,

so I could write these stories as quickly as I could.

I then had a bit of a wake-up call when I was 14.

and announced that he had cancer, and it looked pretty bad.

And what he said was, he wasn't so much afraid that he might die,

but that he hadn't done the things that he wanted to with his life.

And knock on wood, he's still alive today, many years later.

But for a young man that made a real impression on me,

that one never knows how much time one really has.

So I set out in a hurry. I studied engineering.

that I thought would be the ticket to financial freedom.

One of those businesses was a computer rental business

because people kept stealing the computers.

So I figured I needed to learn a little bit more about business,

so I went to Stanford Business School and studied there.

And while I was there, I made friends with a fellow

named Pierre Omidyar, who is here today. And Pierre, I apologize

for this. This is a photo from the old days.

And just after I'd graduated, Pierre came to me

buy and sell things online with each other.

And with the wisdom of my Stanford degree,

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