About the book
When Pierre Omidyar launched a clunky website in 1995, working from a spare bedroom over the Labor Day weekend, he wanted to see whether the Internet could host a perfect market. Adam Cohen, the only journalist ever given full access to eBay, follows how that exchange for old computer parts and Beanie Babies built an intensely passionate online community and beat larger, better-funded rivals. He also profiles the people drawn in, from a stay-at-home mother who rented a warehouse to sell bubble wrap, to the young MBA behind eBay Motors, to collectors bidding thousands on antique clothing irons. The publisher pitches it as essential for understanding the Internet economy.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com founder Yaro Starak said he loves behind-the-scenes stories of big companies that began as small ideas, and pointed to how Pierre Omidyar started eBay.
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Yaro Starak (Founder/Entrepreneurs-Journey.com)
I love hearing “behind the scenes” stories of what would eventually become very large companies that started as really small ideas in the mind of an individual, for example: hearing how EBay started by Pierre Omidyar. He built the website because he wanted to help his girlfriend sell PEZ toys online and that turned into this huge business.
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