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when Pierre Omidyar wanted to help his girlfriend sell and collect Pez dispensers. This is, in fact, a myth made up by a PR whiz. The real story, whoops, it is Murphy's Law today.

And let me tell you a little bit about what Omidyar Network is and what the Tech and Society Solutions Lab is to give a little context.

And so we, at Omidyar Network, began thinking about, OK, we've had this techno optimism for so long.

So this is my boss's boss's boss, Pierre Omidyar, who was the founder of eBay.

And so for the last 14 or so years, Omidyar Network has been making investments globally in things like financial inclusion, citizen engagement,

What comes next, I think, for Omidyar and beyond the Ethical OS toolkit?

I have been doing this work and thinking pretty deeply about how we build more innovative, yet responsible products for a while at Omidyar Network.

And so when eBay IPO'd, Pierre took much of the wealth he accumulated and rolled it into Omidyar Network, as well as our sister institutions,