eBay, every mention
29 scenes (2023), the whole family · ← back to eBay
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every year 2023 anyone Harry Stebbings 59Jeff Jordan 15Alex Schultz 13Eddy Lu 12Marcos Galperin 8Maynard Webb 7Marty Cagan 7Greg Bettinelli 7Michael Dearing 6Rory O'Driscoll 5
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where eBay comes up
Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:36 Davis Smith One of the ideas that came to my head was, uh, you know, I started selling dive gear, scuba gear on eBay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:04 Davis Smith What we decided to do is when we listed them on eBay, we said, 10 week lead time, custom made, hardwood pool table, 10 weeks.
Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:04 Ryan Petersen It's like 200 dollars on eBay.
Harry debates Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: "Should startups target niche markets?" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:59 Matthew Prince So, so the eBay example, you're like eBay started with Beanie Babies. 2 times in the scene
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:25 Matthieu Rouif Gary V mentioned us, uh, we got a few eBay influencers that talked about us, and we got viral, like a very fast growth.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:13 Matthew Prince So, so the eBay example, you're like eBay started with Beanie Babies. 2 times in the scene
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:58 Scott Farquhar Escape and Google and eBay and PayPal and so forth.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:59 Guillermo Rauch The eBay of Latin America, Mercado Libre had kicked off a revenue sharing program.
Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Suchit Dash eBay at the time owned PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:57 Harry Stebbings Um, my first job was selling mobile phones on eBay.
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:04 Akin Babayigit Um, and you know, I mean, it was spun off from eBay, acquired by this investor consortium, sold it to Microsoft for, I think, 8.1 billion dollars.
- ▶ 1:37:56 Harry Stebbings I remember, uh, buying and selling Nokia phones, uh, between different eBay sellers and buyers.
Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:29 David Marcus Uh, but, uh, but John Donohoe, who was, uh, leading, uh, eBay at the time that this was at the time where PayPal was still part of eBay asked me to actually take over the leadership role at, at PayPal, which, uh, was, uh, an insane steep… 2 times in the scene
Joost de Valk: How I Founded Yoast; The Ultimate Guide to SEO; The Threat of AI | E1000 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:28 Joost de Valk I was working for Alex doing consulting for Facebook and, and, and doing consulting for eBay and getting companies like that.
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings Um, but how did you go from paper aeroplanes first to eBay? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Harry Stebbings So, then eBay, obviously, you joined eBay. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:14 Alex Schultz So we really understood what was driving our growth, and the first deep insight, and this was Danny Ferrante did it for us, I think he brought it from Yahoo, and we had something like it at eBay, but it wasn't as advanced.
- ▶ 7:31 Alex Schultz Well, I'll go, I'll go back to eBay for this one. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:28 Alex Schultz So placing a bid is way higher up the funnel for eBay than actually having bought the action and having it been received and having delivered feedback.
- ▶ 40:02 Alex Schultz I learned from my bettas at eBay.
- ▶ 46:09 Alex Schultz So I came out and then, then I went to work and eBay, I mean, look, Meg Whitman went and campaigned on banning gay marriage in California. 4 times in the scene
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:19 Jeff Jordan And so, um, I, I, I looked at eBay when he, the, Jeff Skoll wrote the business plan for eBay with Pierre. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:23 Jeff Jordan That was the beginning of eBay motors.
- ▶ 19:37 Jeff Jordan So eBay became a mechanism for that, for computers, for sporting goods, for, you know, and so the most successful growth strategy we had back in the day was just look what people were listing.
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13 Jeff Jordan Well, you know, when, um, the, the big, big job upgrade for me was, uh, when I went to eBay and got to manage ebay.com. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:17 Jeff Jordan And so, um, I, I, I looked at eBay when he, the, Jeff Skoll wrote the business plan for eBay with Pierre. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:21 Jeff Jordan That was the beginning of eBay motors.
- ▶ 49:42 Jeff Jordan You know, at eBay, we had this phrase, people are basically good. 2 times in the scene