We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want to be treated.

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

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 never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

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.