Access Quote by 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

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

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking…

— Meg Whitman

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

Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff. It's the…

— Paul Saffo

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

— Meg Whitman

People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we…

— 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

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

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…

— Pierre Omidyar

The Internet means everything to everybody and it's growing by the day. You can't survive as a business, especially a small business, without having…

— Theo Paphitis

When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this…

— Erik Brynjolfsson