Building Quote by Pierre Omidyar

“product is the collective activity of all its users; like the web itself, eBay grows organically in response to user”

— Tim O'Reilly

If we're honest with ourselves, our user experience hadn't kept up with the competition. In the first ten years eBay created the market. Now…

— John Donahoe

When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital,…

— Meg Whitman

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce

— Meg Whitman

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to…

— 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…

— Pierre Omidyar

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

— Bonnie Hammer

PayPal benefited tremendously from having a close partnership with the eBay marketplace. It was a natural fit at the time.

— Dan Schulman

“If founders believed Ecommerce is built using VC money & discounting, they never added value with tech innovation, selection, convenience, and shipping”

— Sandeep Aggarwal

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…

— Pierre Omidyar

Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we…

— Daniel H. Pink

eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the…

— Meg Whitman