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a16z Podcast | The Marketplace Rules
- ▶ 17:11 Jeff Jordan Um, trust and safety is an area that's evolved a ton since I was actually, you know, early on at eBay, early on at eBay, everyone, the internet wanted to be anonymous, you know, so there were usernames and, you know, the eBay wouldn't,… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:19 Jeff Jordan So this was how they were earning their living, and keeping up with those guys was really hard, but you had, in reality, it was an arms race to make the, the site safe, and then ultimately, you know, at eBay, we did the, you know, we did…
- ▶ 21:20 Michael Copeland I mean, as part of the velocity that you're seeing in marketplaces, because you know, the, the precursors eBay and, um, and I want to actually ask about Amazon, how this fits into it, but, but we're used to, you know, these marketplaces… 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 21:04 Benjamin Heinemann Some of the biggest users out there are companies like Twitter, uh, Airbnb, HubSpot, eBay, and, uh, and, and PayPal are using it for running things.
a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
- ▶ 9:19 Reshma Saujani Um, you know, when I first started Girl Who Code, we couldn't get a foundation to support us, and our first seed money came from Rochelle Parham, who was a CMO at eBay, and Beth Comstock, a CMO of GE, and Dick Hensel at Twitter, and Jack…
a16z Podcast | Ecommerce and the Holiday Shopping Collision
- ▶ 5:07 Jeff Jordan I mean, when I was at eBay, we were ecstatic if we, you know, people would order for Christmas by December, right?
- ▶ 13:20 Jeff Jordan Um, interestingly, eBay also represents about one in five dollars spent on the internet.
a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
- ▶ 13:03 Jeff Jordan eBay and HP. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:33 Jeff Jordan I mean, when I was at eBay and PayPal, I mean, hundreds of millions of dollars were running out the door, and so it was, it was hand-to-hand combat.
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 29:19 Joe Gebbia Um, and, uh, you know, there's a whole economy that started just around eBay to support sellers, right? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Fantasy Football and Crowdfunding Collide
- ▶ 0:21 Michael Copeland Ryan has been uh,, ah, a startup entrepreneur uh,, ah, started and sold a company, worked at eBay, been a venture capitalist.
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 3:02 Marc Andreessen Ah, in particular, the founding story of PayPal has been quite well told, I think, and then also the fact that PayPal, of course, got bought by eBay and is now actually will become a public, ah, separate, ah, public company again very…
- ▶ 11:11 Marc Andreessen And is that when they really, like, the eBay kind of attach happened? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:26 Marc Andreessen Um, you guys still had the tiger by the tail, in terms of you still had the growth, you had the eBay thing. 10 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?
- ▶ 9:37 Danny Shader The one I always historically thought of was eBay.
a16z Podcast | Everything You Need to Know About Amazon
- ▶ 13:17 Benedict Evans And this is kind of a weird thing to get your head around, because it means that Amazon is almost like eBay.
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 2
- ▶ 7:11 Marc Andreessen So I'll just give you two examples of people I work with, John Donahoe at eBay, like when mobile came along, you know, sort of classical professional CEOs when mobile comes along would, you know, would look at it and say, well, I've got… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
- ▶ 9:42 Christina Mercando You know, there, there's so much data that we were collecting, you know, when I used to work at eBay about people that you just don't have when you go into a physical store.
- ▶ 11:00 Chris Dixon No, that's, in fact, so like, uh, when we got acquired by eBay, eBay was giving one, 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Marketplaces with the Power of Community
- ▶ 12:53 Boris Wurtz Um, I think Evie in the beginning has done a fantastic job doing that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:03 unnamed speaker I think that's a great question, and I think if you look at the marketplaces today, all of the marketplaces that we've been talking about so far were founded, generally speaking, maybe 10 years ago, five to 10 years ago, Etsy, eBay, et…
a16z Podcast | People Marketplaces Take On One of the Last Great E-Commerce Opportunities: Groceries
- ▶ 0:26 Jeff Jordan I mean, it's almost eBay- 3 times in the scene
What's Next for Marketplace Startups
- ▶ 0:34 Frank Chen So, everybody knows eBay. 4 times in the scene
When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World
- ▶ 6:09 Alex Rampell eBay sells everything. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:09 Alex Rampell They didn't say let's build eBay for real estate.
- ▶ 19:11 Alex Rampell So actually, they have a chance of building the eBay of real estate, which is really exciting as well, because in the future, they might not be a principal.
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 15:09 Alex Rampell oh, eBay spun out PayPal, and then HP and HPE separated.
The World Through an API
- ▶ 0:21 Martin Casado I remember the late nineties, you had kind of a lot of the dot-com companies like Yahoo, early 2000, you know, more kind of online marketplaces like Ebay's, and then you had, you know,
- ▶ 15:23 Martin Casado So people are selling things on top and then you have aggregations layers like eBay or Amazon.
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game: Tech Innovation and China
- ▶ 7:49 Connie Chan Jack Ma is very well known for this quote, eBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River.
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 3:42 Alex Rampell Might list that on eBay.
- ▶ 17:09 Alex Rampell So eBay doesn't have that much value when there are only two people using eBay. 2 times in the scene
A Whirlwind Tour Through Tech Trends in China
- ▶ 12:57 Connie Chan Taobao being the eBay of China, except it has a much, much higher market share.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 21:31 Benedict Evans Now, what would happen if you were to buy the last 10 years of L-Decoration on eBay and drop that onto your neural network, and then take a photograph of your living room?
Marketplaces
- ▶ 0:12 Jeff Jordan I managed eBay.com, um, OpenTable.com.
- ▶ 0:33 Jeff Jordan You get on eBay, you get a listing of, ah, of footballs.
- ▶ 1:54 Jeff Jordan At eBay, we used to show the wheel, and in eBay's case, it was buyers benefit from more sellers, and sellers benefit from more buyers. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:25 Jeff Jordan He is describing eBay in the early days. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:39 Jeff Jordan Called Ebazon, because his business was a combination of eBay and Amazon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:31 Jeff Jordan On the consumer-to-sumer side, you have eBay. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:22 Jeff Jordan And when I was at eBay, I, since eBay, I used to think one of my biggest failings there was I didn't build a services business. 2 times in the scene
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