40. JEFF SKOLL
AGE 42
JOB TITLE Founder, Participant Productions
SMART BECAUSE He believed movies should do more than make a profit — and did something about it. In 2004, Skoll cashed out his eBay billions and founded a company (led by Ricky Strauss and Jim Berk) that makes awareness-raising movies that also entertain: An Inconvenient Truth, Syriana, The Kite Runner.
SCREEN DIPLOMACY Paid to have Gandhi translated into Arabic to spread a positive message in the Middle East.
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