eBay, every mention

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▶ 7:03 Boris Wertz I mean, eBay was kind of the first real big marketplace, uh, launched over 20 years ago.
▶ 14:02 Boris Wertz Um, you know, sometimes you might start in an Asian, you know, as the typical example of eBay starting kind of collectibles and then growing to this huge marketplace around all sorts of products.
▶ 20:57 Boris Wertz You, you, you look at, um, you look at eBay, for example, there's, there were a lot of things that were developed around the eBay ecosystem. 2 times in the scene

▶ 2:18 Fabrice Grinda Uh, I started becoming an entrepreneur 17 years ago when I built my first startup, which was an eBay-type site for frames, uh, then built a mobile content company in the U.S., and then built OLX.

▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Jeff and his team have backed successful startups like Mint, acquired by Intuit, Brightroll, Milo, acquired by eBay, Bleacher Report, Fitbit, Eventbrite, Postmates, Vungle, and the list goes on.

▶ 15:51 Nick Beim And, you know, one really interesting early example was eBay, which brought a huge number out of poverty, just gave them an opportunity to make money in a low friction way where they didn't have to open a, you know, an offline store and…

▶ 18:18 Arteen Arabshahi So if you are, uh, let's say you're like an eBay, um, you know, you can't necessarily optimize every shipment because 1:02 you're shipping an iPhone, the next second you're shipping a table, right?

▶ 3:15 Nico Wittenborn So, um, what I ended up doing was looking, um, on eBay, and I started importing, um, iPhones from, from the UK, where they were actually a bit cheaper, and because we just had started to have the European Union, there was no tolls on it,…

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