Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

There's no question that seasonal trends are becoming more pronounced as eBay becomes more mainstream,

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.