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Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator Jun 25, 2026 · 1 mention

The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator Jun 19, 2026 · 1 mention

DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:10 Tony Xu I mean, I, um, it, I, I applied on the recommendation of, uh, one of my mentors at, um, at eBay at the time, who was the CEO, John Donahoe at the time.

B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 15, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:58 Tom Blomfield That's the total dollar value of goods that sold on eBay rather than eBay's revenue itself or gross transaction value. 2 times in the scene

YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator Jan 24, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:33 Michael Seibel Yeah, the only other way you can get away with this is kind of like the eBay PayPal case where, like,

The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:44 Paul Buchheit Um, I mean, like eBay, Netscape, like that first generation, Yahoo, all of that first generation of internet companies, they, they had already

A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator Oct 18, 2018 · 1 mention

Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator Aug 30, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:48 Ryan Petersen Um, actually back in my day, eBay was a bigger platform than Amazon.
  • ▶ 3:48 Ryan Petersen And in fact, I saw one for sale on eBay, Mexico, like a month ago, just checking out to see what happened to our old brand that we invented. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:35 Ryan Petersen And so I had been, I had felt the pain firsthand of this whole industry back in early 2000 when I was still selling stuff on eBay and Amazon and stuff.
  • ▶ 51:50 Ryan Petersen If you, if you don't pay us back, I'll just sell your stuff on eBay.

Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator Jan 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:30 Tom Sparks Um, you know, the, the first big DDoS I remember was against eBay in like, 1997 or something.

Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator Oct 4, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:28 Ryan Hoover And one of those was actually selling things on eBay when I was a kid. 2 times in the scene

Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data - Laura Behrens Wu · Y Combinator Sep 4, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:15 Laura Behrens Wu One of our customers, for instance, is eBay that's on the, on the marketplace side.
  • ▶ 16:09 Laura Behrens Wu Um, if we look at, I don't know, Poshmark, Vinted, Macari, eBay, whatever those are called, or even Facebook Marketplace, like where stuff, especially it seems like young women and mothers selling like used items and getting a lot of fun…
  • ▶ 27:50 Craig Cannon Like people were buying things off eBay from like, 15 years ago and returning it to REI.

IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Jul 1, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:42 Juan Benet Like they're building, like it is completely decentralized, uh, eBay type thing.

Jessica Livingston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Aug 30, 2016 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:49 Jessica Livingston I remember specifically during YC, Airbnb said to themselves and, and I think, ah, to investors, we plan to become the eBay of space. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:00 Jessica Livingston Like, they were nowhere near the eBay of space at that point, but they had that vision, and they were working toward that. 2 times in the scene
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