"People were doing business with one another through……" — Pierre Omidyar
"People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did."
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Pierre Omidyar
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