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▶ 34:22 Vlad Tenev I'm kind of reminded of, uh, I, I was reading the, the Amazon book, and, you know, eBay initially was a much larger company than Amazon, and they kind of thought it was very silly that

▶ 8:03 Bret Taylor Um, you know, if you look at, uh, across segments, it's, uh, PayPal, eBay.

▶ 54:50 Imran Khan And so, but, you know, the story was positioned very simply that, hey, it's the China consumer play, and they are the eBay plus Amazon plus PayPal of China.

▶ 42:16 Kevin Hartz Um, you know, but you would think, if I'd held it longer, because what happened is that eBay acquired it, and then eBay had a run in the early 2000. 2 times in the scene
▶ 46:53 Harry Stebbings Yeah, it was the gamified version of, like, eBay in a really cool way.
▶ 52:04 Kevin Hartz And then when, ah, the day that acquisition of PayPal by eBay was announced,

▶ 20:39 Harry Stebbings They always sold Nokia mobile phones on eBay.
▶ 32:45 Pat Grady And Marty Abbott was a guy who used to run technical ops for eBay.

▶ 2:02 Michael Eisenberg And then there was pets.com and pets.com.com and pets.com.com.com because there's an incredible gold rush, but the internet, eBay, Amazon, et cetera, turned out to be incredible companies.

▶ 37:12 Reid Hoffman I mean, like, we had, you know, at PayPal, we had eBay trying to shut us down, and that was where all our volume was.
▶ 38:17 Reid Hoffman They're like, go make sure eBay can't kick us off their platform.

▶ 2:40 Matt Lerner And by that, I mean, like, I could go back and say, you know, there are five or six things, obviously, before my time getting on eBay, uh, referral bonuses and, you know, network effects growth, getting early, getting engaged with web…

▶ 26:33 Chris Dixon I started an AI company in 2008, and I, if you told me, and I sold it to eBay in 2011, machine learning company called Hunch, I, I was obviously too early, um, but eventually it worked.

▶ 6:23 Thomas Plantenga So they were asking something in the tune of 15 to 20% seller fee, which is like the standard thing that eBay and Poshmark were doing for years,
▶ 14:36 Alex Taussig So then if you believe that, then you start to talk about companies, you know, if you look at regions around the world that have a dominant marketplace, including the U S um, with eBay back in the day,
▶ 1:07:09 Alex Taussig You know, the business like eBay has a great EBITDA margin.

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