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.

I just kind of had this naive approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I’ll just go ahead and do it.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

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

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.

What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

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.