eBay, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 122Max Levchin 17Rob Kalin 10Emmett Shear 7Jeremy Stoppelman 6Larry Liu 5Kim Vaccarella 5Davis Smith 5Adi Tatarko 4Manish Chandra 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where eBay comes up
Bogg Bag: Kim Vaccarella. The $100 Million Business She Almost Abandoned
- ▶ 12:27 Kim Vaccarella So even while I had the kids, and my husband worked 12 hour night shifts, you know, I would still sit up at night, and I would make baskets, and I would buy things and resell them on eBay. 5 times in the scene
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- ▶ 34:26 Breezy Griffith Uh, we bought an oven off of eBay, one single oven that sat on the floor.
93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
- ▶ 22:42 Slava Rubin I mean, you had eBay already. 2 times in the scene
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
- ▶ 9:51 Alex and Mike Faherty Yeah, that's true, and I even, in, uh, starting my sophomore year in college, eBay was just coming up, and I used to, in free time, I used to go to, like, the local Marshalls and TJ Maxx's in, like, the New Haven area, and I would buy… 2 times in the scene
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 15:41 Nirav Tolia Had a bit of a mixed track record, but ultimately was bought by eBay for, I think, about 626 hundred thirty million.
Carlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire.
Perfect Snacks: Bill and Leigh Keith
- ▶ 29:28 Leigh Keith Yeah, we, it's wild to look back, but we spent 65,000 cash on a candy wrapper machine off of eBay, and it's arriving on a truck.
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- ▶ 3:30 Guy Raz Skype was eventually sold to eBay and then, in 2011, sold again, this time to Microsoft for eight and a half billion dollars.
- ▶ 41:01 Niklas Zennström So you kind of was really smart to invest in say a German copycat of eBay because eBay would probably buy them or, or a Nordic version of, of, uh, Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:56 Guy Raz Uh, and then in addition to AOL and Microsoft and Google, uh, you get contacted by eBay as well. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:00 Guy Raz At eBay, running Skype, you and Janice start, um, two things.
- ▶ 1:02:11 Guy Raz You were out of, by 2007, out of eBay, and, and, and done with Skype, and that was it. 4 times in the scene
Fanatics: Michael Rubin
- ▶ 37:05 Guy Raz See, the, the, the purchase goes through in 2011, but later that year, GSI sells to eBay. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:25 Michael Rubin They had two businesses, the eBay Marketplace and PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Gary Erickson of Clif Bar
Weee!: Larry Liu
- ▶ 2:13 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Larry Liu went from being an eBay reseller to building the online Asian grocery platform Wii, now valued at over four billion dollars.
- ▶ 8:09 Guy Raz But it was early days for things like e-commerce and like eBay, and, and I guess there was a similar kind of site in China, or there might still be, called Eachnet, and, uh, and like, it was like an eBay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:51 Guy Raz Alright, so you're working as, basically as an engineer at Intel, and this, there's kind of a side project from what I understand that you started kind of engaging in while you were there, which was similar to something you did in China,… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:14 Guy Raz Meanwhile, you still continue to sell things on eBay, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:26 Larry Liu My eBay experience taught me something about e-commerce, right?
- ▶ 33:44 Larry Liu So we decided to run the business using our savings from the eBay days and, uh, to self-fund the business until we see significant traction, then we can, we can try to raise money. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:21 Larry Liu By using our own money that we made from the eBay business.
Poshmark: Manish Chandra
- ▶ 22:11 Manish Chandra And so we created white label solutions for eBay. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:22 Guy Raz Presumably, you know, people were already doing this on eBay, right, for years before anybody were selling secondhand clothing.
KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin
- ▶ 9:33 Guy Raz Um, and then you moved out West to work for, for PayPal and then eBay. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 Guy Raz And meanwhile, uh, you're no longer at this point at eBay, and your kids are obviously still pretty young at the time, and I guess, I guess you start to realize that, that not only do you want to spend more time with them, but you want to…
- ▶ 25:22 Sandra Oh Lin Um, I think the experience that we collectively had at PayPal, at eBay, um, one of the co-founders had been at Yahoo before, um,
Kona Ice: Tony Lamb
Etsy: Rob Kalin
- ▶ 15:26 Rob Kalin And the only option for selling it online was eBay at that point, and really had no interest in doing that.
- ▶ 27:53 Rob Kalin Obviously, we could point to a website that already existed, like eBay, and say, all right, there's gonna be a per item listing fee, and then there'll be a sales fee associated, you know, when something sells. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:27 Guy Raz So how did you distinguish yourself from, from like, from like eBay or other places that sold the same types of things? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:20 Rob Kalin So as much as we disdained eBay, we were definitely standing on their shoulders in a couple different ways, and one of them was, our exclusive method of payment was PayPal, and so if PayPal worked in that location, then we were able to just 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:21 Rob Kalin And you look at a marketplace, like, I would say Etsy now, or eBay,
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
- ▶ 8:41 Joel Simkhai And I went online on eBay, and I saw that it was, like, really cheap.
Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout (2020)
HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt
HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
- ▶ 44:31 Greg Solano Um, on kind of the, the eBay of NFTs, say like OpenSea or Luxware, these marketplaces, you can put on there a creator royalty of typically is anywhere between two and a half percent to all the way up to like 10% for some collections.
Twitch: Emmett Shear
- ▶ 18:32 Emmett Shear And we decided, well, the obvious place to sell it would be on, uh, on eBay, because eBay is famous for hosting, you know, selling weird stuff at the time. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:10 Emmett Shear I think we learned something from the eBay experience, which was if you do something that's a little bit provocative and crazy that people want to talk about, people will talk about you.
- ▶ 1:20:29 Guy Raz By the way, remember when Emmett and Justin sold their first business, Kiko, for like, 250,000 dollars on eBay?
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 29:29 Leah Solivan So I built it modeled after eBay, you know, the big marketplace at the time.
Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
- ▶ 3:02 Guy Raz PayPal eventually sold to eBay for one and a half billion dollars.
- ▶ 19:40 Max Levchin I'd never worked for anyone for more than a couple of months, and that was one time at eBay, and so I sort of thought, all right, you know what, like all the stress of being a founder, maybe I don't want it.
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- ▶ 0:15 Max Levchin Every Monday when eBay auctions would settle, the system would just go down for multiple hours. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:19 Guy Raz People who use eBay. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:35 Max Levchin eBay sellers and buyers to join.
- ▶ 1:14:22 Max Levchin Every Monday when eBay auctions would settle, the system would just go down for multiple hours.
- ▶ 1:16:03 Max Levchin Was so busy and the, the war with all the various competitors and eBay was trying to shut us down while also trying to sort of cooperate with us because their seller ecosystem depended on us so much. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:35 Guy Raz So even after you went public, you kind of depended on eBay, you needed eBay, you need to keep them happy, but you also knew they didn't like you, and presumably you had to start thinking about diversifying your revenue streams, because… 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:59 Guy Raz eBay purchased PayPal was the worst year of your life.
Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
- ▶ 34:18 Ryan Schreiber And at the same time, um, eBay had just kind of come out and, um, 2 times in the scene
Houzz: Adi Tatarko
- ▶ 3:19 Guy Raz Alone was a software engineer at eBay.
- ▶ 14:47 Guy Raz He's so, presumably, he starts looking for jobs out there, and he got a job at eBay, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:35 Adi Tatarko I'll be able to leave eBay and start my own thing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:25 Guy Raz Alon is still going to his job at eBay.
HIBT Lab! ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
PODS & Red Rover: Pete Warhurst
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
- ▶ 22:38 Lloyd Armbrust Somebody who is flipping masks on eBay or Amazon to take advantage of this situation.
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 48:55 Matt Mullenweg And then these tickets started to sell on eBay. 2 times in the scene
Sukhi’s Gourmet Indian Food: Sukhi Singh and Dalbir Singh
- ▶ 39:16 Dalbir Singh She was, had a great job over at eBay and was doing very, very well.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 10:41 Gary Vaynerchuk To sit and say, you can then make a career out of it, believe it or not, I, I probably go way further down the long tail than most people, because I know about affiliate deals on eBay.
Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 55:15 Gary Vaynerchuk This 12 to 24 months will create incredibly bad projects that don't bring back value to the person that supported it, but I plan on making my project, for example, the Amazon and eBay of that era. 2 times in the scene
Norma Kamali: Norma Kamali
- ▶ 1:13:53 Guy Raz To, um, to debut a collection of clothing at Walmart, which by the way, um, you can still get through like eBay and people sell them at a premium, like, like Norma Kamali t-shirts and stuff.
- ▶ 1:18:19 Guy Raz And you got on, you were on eBay, like, really early, and you, I mean, in the nineties, you introduced, like, a, I think, a line of, like, home goods products.
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan (2018)
Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout
Rad Power Bikes: Mike Radenbaugh
- ▶ 13:35 Mike Radenbaugh So that was a little bit of stuff from Radio Shack, some stuff I ordered on eBay.
How I Built Resilience: Sandra Oh Lin of KiwiCo
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
- ▶ 46:41 Vicky Tsai I went to eBay.
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
- ▶ 1:08:05 Jamie Siminoff Like I'm not a person who likes vanity, but man, did I want a four letter domain company like eBay, you know, or half.com or like, you know, nest or like, there's so many, uh,
Sub Pop Records: Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman
- ▶ 14:53 Bruce Pavitt The store was not generating that much income, so I did wind up going to work at this company, Yesco, that John had worked at as well, which ironically, ultimately got bought out by Muzak, so I do have business cards that say, that say…
- ▶ 34:17 Jonathan Poneman And so, there ended up being a mania over our records, and now, you know, you have eBay, and there's all sorts of vehicles for finding collectible records, but at the time, all of the traffic and inquiry would come back to the label, so…
Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- ▶ 10:50 Davis Smith We were just trying to think of something we could do, and I had a friend that worked for eBay, and as he told me about eBay, eBay was pretty new at the time, 5 times in the scene
Brooklinen: Vicki and Rich Fulop
- ▶ 10:45 Rich Fulop Um, these were in early days of like eBay and, and whatnot.
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
- ▶ 8:04 Guy Raz So one afternoon, while mulling over some ideas at their local pub, Patrick and John came up with a potential solution, back-end technology for eBay users to manage inventory. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:55 Patrick Collison It was built for eBay where you're kind of one-off sending a hundred dollars manually from this person to that person.
Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson
- ▶ 30:27 Curt Richardson Sell it on eBay.
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- ▶ 8:46 Jeremy Stoppelman It was already growing really fast for use on eBay. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 Jeremy Stoppelman Um, after PayPal was bought by eBay, especially since I'd gone through a merger, X.com and PayPal, that was pretty traumatic, frankly. 2 times in the scene
Bumble: Whitney Wolfe (2017)
SoulCycle: Julie Rice & Elizabeth Cutler
- ▶ 23:51 Julie Rice Elizabeth bought a rickshaw on eBay, and she spray painted the rickshaw yellow and silver.
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison
- ▶ 8:12 Guy Raz So one afternoon, while mulling over some ideas at their local pub, Patrick and John came up with a potential solution, back-end technology for eBay users to manage inventory, and they found two other guys who were working on a similar… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:03 Patrick and John Collison It was built for eBay where you're kind of one-off sending a hundred dollars manually from this person to that person.
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu
Live Episode! Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams: Jeni Britton Bauer
- ▶ 29:48 Jeni Britton I would buy them on e-mail.
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore
- ▶ 50:09 Steve Crowell Started selling on eBay March third of 98.
LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman
Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard (2016)
- ▶ 13:39 Yvon Chouinard Then he went on eBay,
Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard
- ▶ 13:17 Yvon Chouinard Then he went on eBay,