eBay, every mention
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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 19Ethan Smith 10Ramesh Johari 7Jason Feifer 7Camille Hearst 4Bob Moesta 3Timothy Davis 2Casey Winters 1Bob Baxley 1Benjamin Lauzier 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where eBay comes up
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 52:54 Bob Baxley So we watched them go through like eBay and Williams-Sonoma and Amazon or something like that.
Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
- ▶ 2:11 Lenny Rachitsky At one point, eBay tried to acquire them. 3 times in the scene
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 1:27 Lenny Rachitsky She was also a long-time engineering leader at Akamai, and on the board of eBay and Capital One.
- ▶ 7:35 Lenny Rachitsky You worked at Google, Robinhood, you're on the board of eBay, you're on the board of Capital One, now you're at Microsoft.
How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack)
- ▶ 25:12 Benjamin Lauzier This is what's so tricky, by the way, about, um, you know, services, service marketplaces like Thumbtack, because unlike eBay, where sellers, you know, they just want to sell very clear and distinct inventory.
Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and PM’ing your career like a product | Deb Liu
- ▶ 1:23 Lenny Rachitsky Prior to Facebook, she was director at both PayPal and eBay.
The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- ▶ 1:03:25 Timothy Davis This is why numerous companies like Netflix and eBay have done studies to get an understanding of the incrementality of paid advertising campaigns. 2 times in the scene
Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
- ▶ 21:13 Ramesh Johari I mean, one that I think is very painful is how eBay sort of had a lot of challenges with its seller community as it introduced 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:36 Ramesh Johari Um, you know, I think there's a lot of innovation that's happened, but I think fundamentally we're still playing with the same kind of tools that we had when, you know, eBay and Amazon like first started thinking about how to do rating… 3 times in the scene
How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine)
- ▶ 1:20:23 Jason Feifer Now, Fred stumbled his way into this, but he did really a very smart thing, because what he responded with was he said, totally understand, if you're ever interested in learning about a gigantic scam that's happening on Amazon and eBay… 7 times in the scene
Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)
- ▶ 44:12 Lenny Rachitsky It's kind of wild that Etsy can exist in a world of eBay and Amazon. 3 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to JTBD | Bob Moesta (co-creator of the framework)
- ▶ 28:35 Bob Moesta And what they ended up doing is we ended up going and studying eBay and Etsy and what caused somebody to say today's the day I'm going to set up an eBay store or sell something on Craigslist. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:23 Bob Moesta I wanted to stop using eBay.
Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst
- ▶ 33:06 Camille Hearst I find that the, the counter example I hear a lot is eBay, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:04 Camille Hearst Actually, I should ask him about early days at eBay.
How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, Github)
- ▶ 2:32 Lenny Rachitsky Including companies like Twilio, Amplitude, eBay, Brex, Toast, Pfizer, and Procter & Gamble.
- ▶ 41:09 Lenny Rachitsky DX is used by both startups and fortune 500 companies, including companies like Twilio, Amplitude, eBay, Brex, Toast, Pfizer, and Procter and Gamble.
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 21:51 Casey Winters So kind of like Twitch meets eBay would be a good way to describe it.
Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year
- ▶ 38:27 Ethan Smith So if you're Zillow, you're gonna spend tens of millions of dollars on ads, or if you're eBay, you're gonna spend tens of millions of dollars on ads.
The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- ▶ 0:04 Ethan Smith So if you're Zillow, you're gonna spend tens of millions of dollars on ads, or if you're eBay, you're gonna spend tens of millions of dollars on ads.
- ▶ 5:18 Ethan Smith It was Leo, uh, Harry Ono from shopping.com eBay.
- ▶ 18:54 Ethan Smith So for eBay, product pages are generated automatically from information in their database, or for Zillow, home pages, address pages are generated based on information in their database. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:48 Ethan Smith It depends, but it's usually not millions unless you're eBay or, or Zillow, but usually it's less than a million.
- ▶ 42:03 Ethan Smith So for, you know, for, for a large site, like a Ticketmaster and eBay, it's probably one to four weeks is the rough timeline once you're really optimized.
- ▶ 47:05 Ethan Smith So if you're Zillow, you're gonna spend tens of millions of dollars on ads, or if you're eBay, you're gonna spend tens of millions of dollars on ads.
- ▶ 1:05:19 Ethan Smith So eBay, TripAdvisor, a bunch of other sites.
Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier
- ▶ 25:11 Lenny Rachitsky Maybe Jeff Jordan at A-sixteen Z who's invested in Airbnb and worked at eBay and open table, all these companies, but
- ▶ 49:52 Lenny Rachitsky So thinking about eBay as an example, they are very horizontal. 6 times in the scene
The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group
- ▶ 1:08 Lenny Rachitsky He's also senior VP of eBay.