Being Quote by Gil Penchina

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in…

— Jeffrey Skilling

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

— Jonah Lomu

I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.

— Pierre Omidyar

I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal…

— Gil Penchina

So one of the things that I learned in my old company, GSI Commerce that eBay bought in 2011, was we did a lot…

— Michael G. Rubin

Ultimately, I didn't quite find the company I wanted to join, but I met more than 100 entrepreneurs and realized that all these entrepreneurs…

— Katrina Lake

We all remember the tech bubble of the late '90s, but companies like Amazon survived. Wherever there's strong, enduring value, it can last through…

— Tim Sweeney

I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.

— Christine Tsai

My mum was a product of the Eighties - she always spent more money than she could make. She'd start these businesses but she…

— James Bowen

As far as businesses, I was always hustling. I had to pay for my own school. I got 20 bucks every week or 2…

— Mark Cuban

When I started in e-commerce, there was not a lot of clutter because there were not a lot of companies. Nowadays, you have to…

— Julie Wainwright

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove…

— Steven Sinofsky