I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace.

I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.

You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.