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.

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

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

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

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.