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How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- ▶ 0:31 Grant LaFontaine At that point in time was when, like, eBay was getting started, and I was like, wait, you can make money from Pokemon cards?
- ▶ 2:03 Grant LaFontaine Down sort of the street from where I was living, it was like a little, like, lake and hangout area, and my, me and my friend used to go there, and we'd like, trade Pokemon cards, and I'd try and hustle people on, like, getting the better…
- ▶ 17:17 David George Um, and one of the historical knocks I've heard people say about whatnot is, well, you know, Etsy's only so big, or eBay is only so big. 6 times in the scene
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 1:00 Alex Rampell Application space like eBay and Amazon that were built on top of that.
- ▶ 40:03 Alex Rampell Like just, you can buy this stuff for pretty much nothing on eBay. 3 times in the scene
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 17:35 Augusto Marietti Look at eBay. 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 34:47 Keith Rabois Um, things that, you know, eBay did back in 1995 to 2003 apply to homes.
- ▶ 40:35 Alex Rampell Or would you rather be eBay, which has amazing high gross margins, but is the shittiest service in the world? 3 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 6:01 Alex Rampell And that's what made me so excited because eBay is a marketplace for everything except for homes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:42 Alex Rampell It's like, I see, okay, I want to go list at, I can, I can sell a used car on eBay.
- ▶ 22:40 Alex Rampell I mean, I would hope that eBay, and I, I don't know the, the history on this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:50 Alex Rampell Like why is eBay worth? 7 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:16:36 Marc Andreessen I don't mean like a new eBay a day or something.
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 1:17:46 Ben Horowitz You know, that's when eBay got started.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 36:13 Ben Horowitz It worked for a few things like eBay and Amazon and so forth, but it certainly wouldn't have worked for, you know, Facebook or, uh, Twitter or these kinds of things.
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 10:20 Jason Gardner And when we started talking to the food delivery companies like DoorDash and Postmates and then became Uber Eats and eBay had our product, that's when we started to really see the value that we were providing.
Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 13:22 Deb Liu Well, you know, so I worked at PayPal when it was acquired by eBay, and suddenly the addition of PayPal, so the number one thing that eBay did was reputation first, but the next thing they did was payments, because trust, if you send… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:00 Deb Liu But you know, the same thing, like shopping someone else's closet, like, is that something that you really spent a lot of time thinking about doing, but it wasn't like there wasn't, I bought a ton of clothes on eBay, by the way, many years…
Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 7:39 Deb Liu I mean, look at eBay. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:29 Deb Liu Well, I think what eBay did that was really special was having people trust each other online to send money in the mail. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:42 Deb Liu But if you actually search leaky bucket and eBay, there was an article written about this where, you know, at some point it became a leaky bucket and then you burn through entire countries of buyers. 2 times in the scene
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 2:20 Connie Chan A lot of that comes from actually our partner, Jeff Jordan, who himself has been an operator and a pioneer in marketplaces, holding leadership roles at eBay, at OpenTable, and because of his experience, we have all been trained to believe…
- ▶ 13:07 Zach Cohen If you kind of look historically at marketplaces, you kind of see that wave one, you're talking about the Amazon and Ebays, which were all about quantity and supply gathering.
- ▶ 43:31 Olivia Moore But the question that I had on sneaker marketplaces was like eBay already existed and 2 times in the scene
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:29:29 Balaji Srinivasan Another way of doing it, which is actually not thought of as such, but it's really important, is a cloud-based international regulator like Amazon, eBay, actually even Gmail, Apple, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)
- ▶ 1:18 Devin Finzer So you can think of us kind of like eBay or Amazon, a one-stop shop where you can go buy, sell, discover new NFT projects.
Social Tokens for Creators Explained
- ▶ 12:24 Kevin Chou The reality is when we look at things like eBay, for example, where it was all auctions for a long time, and then people learned and eBay learned over time that actually people don't like auctions. 2 times in the scene
Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization
- ▶ 14:13 Kevin Chou So imagine that there's a version of an in-game eBay where you can buy and sell the virtual goods that you want.
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 1:53 Chris Dixon And that was sort of the, I mean, there were exceptions and things like eBay and other things, but for the most part, that was sort of the dominant thing, right?
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 1:17 Justin Kan We ended up, uh, fire selling it on eBay after several failed acquisition attempts, uh, with the Silicon Valley players.
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 1:09:06 Steven Sinofsky Like if you want alerts on eBay for a certain kind of item, it's always running and you'll get an alert.
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 42:32 unnamed speaker Sort of LinkedIn is sort of the, the trusted entity to manage your resume and present your resume, and eBay is sort of the trusted marketplace where the sellers, or Etsy, is sort of the trusted place where you sort of send money and expect…
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 29:06 Jeff Jordan Managing eBay, you know, we were doing TV, and it was a million dollars to produce an ad, and then, you know, ten million dollars to distribute it with a frequency that the brand people thought was efficient. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:36 Jeff Jordan eBay was
a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- ▶ 11:14 Jonathan Lusthaus So one of the things they've done is branching out from what was originally selling cars on eBay.
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 5:32 Frank Chen So Taobao was like eBay here, and what happened in Taobao was there were sellers who were experimenting with the system, and they kind of figured out what was working for them, and they would share.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 2:52 Chris Dixon I have this, I always forget the name of it, I gotta look, it's on eBay, but it's a card game from, like, 2005.
- ▶ 10:15 Chris Dixon And then you talk about a bunch of interesting companies, obviously sort of the iconic companies, I guess, Netscape, Yahoo, Google, eBay, Amazon.
- ▶ 10:23 Chris Dixon eBay is an interesting one because I think of the, you know, well, they're all interesting, but obviously Google and Amazon are wildly powerful companies today. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:34 Chris Dixon It's sort of, you know, broadband, smartphones, applications are the word processor, mosaic, eBay, you know, websites, Instagram, things like that, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
- ▶ 0:32 Marc Andreessen I won't spend a huge amount of time, but suffice it to say, if you've used the internet or a personal computer in the last 20 years, uh, you've used products that Meg has been an integral part of creating and building across eBay, Hewlett…
- ▶ 1:46 Meg Whitman And then I ended up at eBay, and he had taken DreamWorks, you know, he'd started DreamWorks and taken, um, DreamWorks, was about to take DreamWorks public, and he was looking for board members for this new company, and asked me to be on…
- ▶ 5:36 Marc Andreessen You know, startups, obviously, Meg, you've been integrally involved in startups with running eBay, and then, you know, Jeffrey, obviously, he's with the co-founder of DreamWorks.
a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game
- ▶ 13:40 unnamed speaker I mean, with eBay, it was initially, wasn't Beanie Babies like a big part? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How to Manage a PR Agency
- ▶ 1:00 Sonal Chokshi She has worked in-house in corporate communications at several prominent internet companies, including OpenTable, which later IPO'd and formally served as vice president of corporate communications at eBay.
- ▶ 17:49 Shannon Brayton I worked at eBay for seven years, and so every July we literally had, like, a Santa in a hundred degree weather passing out eBay-related gifts on, literally at Times Square. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:38 Shannon Brayton And on my end, I would say at eBay, the best relationship I ever had with an agency was with Kaplow Communications, who was based in New York.
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 25:14 Steven Sinofsky I paid on eBay.
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
- ▶ 8:06 Jeff Jordan At eBay, we encourage our employees to trade, buy and sell on eBay.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- ▶ 14:22 Jeff Jordan I mean, eBay had enormous levels of engagement early on.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
- ▶ 2:40 Jeff Jordan At eBay, the original business was an auction business in the U.S. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
- ▶ 5:46 Olaf Carlson-Wee Many of the major Web two point O companies that have seen a substantial growth in the last 15 years, this is Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, eBay, Uber, every single one of these companies could someday see competition from a peer peer-to-peer…
a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
- ▶ 21:12 Jeff Jordan I mean, one of the ironies here is when we're at eBay, we used to talk about it as an exchange business, you know, and we used to compare the volume of trades relative to the public stock markets because it was incredibly similar. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 7:27 Chris Dixon And to get over it, you go back and you ask, you know, Brian Chesky and, you know, the founders of eBay and all these other companies, and they always have these heroic tales of how they, you know, through sheer force of will or clever…
a16z Podcast | The Asshole Survival Guide
- ▶ 23:53 Michael Dearing I had a terrible colleague, not somebody that worked for me, but somebody a couple branches away in the org chart at eBay, and this person was awful.
a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
- ▶ 0:10 Sonal Chokshi And joining us for this episode, we have A-Six and Z general partner, Jeff Jordan, who was president of PayPal at eBay before going to online restaurant reservation network, OpenTable, where as the CEO, he oversaw the company going public.
- ▶ 20:38 Jeff Jordan Earlier in my career at eBay, none of the, of those owners would use eBay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:15 Jeff Jordan Uh, I wasn't at eBay at the time, but I, I believe
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 10:32 Frank Chen Why don't people just come together and we'll create the right set of incentives for the network to behave so you can imagine an eBay where there is no company.
a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 8:34 Olaf Carlson-Wee You know, Twitter, Facebook, Uber, Etsy, eBay, whatever it might be.
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 6:01 Luke Wroblewski We had, I used to work at eBay before I worked at Yahoo.
a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money
- ▶ 23:22 Alex Rampell I mean, knowing that I will get paid quickly and promptly, it just, it boggles my mind that eBay started as eBay without the PayPal part built in. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 32:32 Chris Dixon It's sort of like, you know, eBay and PayPal when they split, it was like, seventy-five billion dollars before the split, and then, like, 85 after the split.
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 0:42 Sonal Chokshi He was previously the CEO at Open Table, which is why the network effects theme is particularly strong here, and president at PayPal and SPP at eBay before that, and his board seats include a lot of our companies that have network effects…
- ▶ 5:00 Jeff Jordan And I'm like, I'm, it just came out of eBay and PayPal.
- ▶ 11:40 Jeff Jordan I've worked with some great network effects businesses, you know, eBay, PayPal, Airbnb, you know, Pinterest. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:21 Jeff Jordan And eBay, the early thing was collectibles. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:30 Jeff Jordan If they are spending on acquisition, eBay, I was the biggest advertiser in the world on digital advertising in the world for a number of years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:24 Jeff Jordan eBay.
- ▶ 46:31 Jeff Jordan I mean, I was managing a network effects business during nine 11, which was eBay.
a16z Podcast | Banking on the Blockchain
- ▶ 9:25 William Mougayar It's, think of it like an eBay without eBay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:52 unnamed speaker You say that it's eBay without eBay. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
- ▶ 11:46 Sonal Chokshi That's what happens actually on eBay and Etsy in the U.S.
- ▶ 20:49 Kunal Bahl Like, even in the U.S., you have one C to C player, eBay.
- ▶ 25:08 Kunal Bahl And so what we did with Free Charge is very similar to what Alibaba did with Alipay or, or eBay did with PayPal, where Snapdeal became the anchor merchant for Free Charge, which has a wallet, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:44 Sonal Chokshi And you do that through chat versus over email, which is how it's done in eBay.
a16z Podcast | Data Network Effects
- ▶ 0:39 Alex Rampell So if you think about eBay, which is more people, more buyers go to eBay because more sellers go to eBay, more sellers go to eBay because more buyers go to eBay. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 16:05 Martin Casado Um, we had AT&T, NTT, eBay, Rackspace, and Fidelity.
a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
- ▶ 5:41 Jeff Jordan So eBay, PayPal, OpenTable as an operator, and now Airbnb, Pinterest, and Instacart as an investor. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 43:49 Connie Chan Um, and I think that paid off for Alibaba tremendously, um, versus the eBay China team in the early years, because Alibaba was able to retain really good talent.
a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 5:13 Sonal Chokshi So the mafia that sort of results from like a PayPal mafia or an eBay mafia.
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 14:02 Alex Rampell You can go to eBay and, and get not a mag stripe reader, but a mag stripe writer, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne
- ▶ 21:02 Patrick Byrne The recommendation, uh, algorithms span some of that distance, but at the end of the day, if you want to go and be shopping among tens of millions of products and any, anything, there's other sites for that, like eBay or Amazon.
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 5:01 Alex Rampell One is I bought a credit card terminal on, it was called AuctionWeb, it became eBay. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
- ▶ 9:57 Chris Dixon I mean, there's an eBay, 20% of all internet, international transactions are blocked because the way they deal with the fact that their system is not built for the internet is they tune the algorithms to just block almost everything that…
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 0:05 Michael Copeland Google, eBay, even the web itself.
- ▶ 3:08 Marc Andreessen Um, eBay was one of those, right, in the very beginning it was like, you know, Pez dispensers and Beanie Babies, and it's like, I don't know how many people are going to want those things.
- ▶ 46:25 Marc Andreessen Uh, Pierre Omidyar, uh, is, uh, another guy who's been very, very, very out front on this, who founded eBay, who's been doing philanthropy basically from the very start.
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 26:07 unnamed speaker For example, in the case of Iran, as sanctions lift, what happens when the eBay, when the local eBay-like competitor is exposed to the actual eBay?
a16z Podcast | Finding and Hiring for (Expectations) Fit on Both Sides
- ▶ 6:26 Jeff Stump I wouldn't show up to eBay without having used eBay. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 6:15 Sten Tamkivi It's like, it was like a few, few pride marketing, business development, partnership related people who were working out of San Jose after eBay acquired us.
a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat
- ▶ 0:20 Michael Copeland Uh, she sits on the boards today of AOL, Real Networks, and coupons.com, has been on a lot of other boards, including eBay and Walmart.
- ▶ 21:06 Dawn Lepore Well, I do think that, first of all, I would say be transparent, transparent, transparent, um, and I learned a lot from all the boards I was on, but one of the earliest boards I was on was eBay, and I was on there for 13 years, and so I…
a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
- ▶ 25:30 Marc Andreessen Um, at, at eBay for many years, when she was running eBay, it was always, it was five highlights and five lowlights. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Marketplace Rules
- ▶ 1:32 Jeff Jordan And, you know, this has, um, you know, our investment thesis when we got into it, uh, almost four years ago was it had the chance to be the kind of the next gen eBay. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Jeff Jordan So on eBay, it was incredibly inefficient if you were a collectible lover to, to do your collectibles. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:51 Michael Copeland Because the difficult part about a marketplace is that, especially ones that are successful, or, or I guess maybe only those that are successful, is that the people who are in there all the time, whether it's eBay or OpenTable, they love… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:22 Jeff Jordan A lot of, it's easy to raise prices when you have a network effect, but you know, I think that hurt eBay in the long run versus Google. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:09 Jeff Jordan We then built eBay Motors to enable that pursuit of that business.
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