“I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.” JobsSidesExperimentsHobbiesDay JobsEbay Author:Pierre Omidyar
“In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.” FeltParentBrotherMonthsSixComplainingReceivingComplaintsSix MonthsFebruaryEbay Author:Pierre Omidyar
“By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.” GrowthSimplePrinciplesBuildingEbayGuiding Principles Author:Pierre Omidyar
“eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.” PeopleFirstsPersonsBusinessTechnologyEnablingEbay Author:Pierre Omidyar
“When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.” PeopleIfsThinkingHelpingUseSocialTermInterestBusinessPowerInternetImpactAccessExperimentsSpheresEfficientHobbiesHelping PeopleEmpoweredEbaySocial ImpactEfficient Markets Author:Pierre Omidyar
“You’ll fail at some things, that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience... What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.” NeedsPastNextChallengesMistakeFailingConsistentMaking MistakesBullsLearning ExperienceCheerleaderEbay Author:Pierre Omidyar
“What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.” PeopleRealTogetherSuccessValuesCommunitySuccessfulMarketplaceSellersBuyersComing TogetherReal PowerReal ValueEbay Author:Pierre Omidyar
