Ebay

Ebay is founded in Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room on Labor Day 1995. Omidyar poses the question, "What would happen within a marketplace if everyone had equal access to information and tools?" Joined by co-founder Jeff Skoll, and three years later by Meg Whitman, the company charts an enormously successful business model based on a world-wide community of online buyers and sellers.
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