By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial independence as well by starting businesses, and all the lives we've touched positively.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.