Pierre Omidyar — The Accidental Auctioneer
Founder
- Founded eBay (then AuctionWeb)
- First sale was a broken laser pointer
- Became a major philanthropist
Companies / The Web Era
eBay
The Web Era · 2000s — one of the 100 companies on the MogulSpin reels.
The legends
Meg Whitman — Scaled the Marketplace
- CEO who scaled eBay
- Later ran HP and Quibi
Jeff Skoll
- First employee and president
- Later an Oscar-winning film producer
Also on the roster
Benchmark Capital
When eBay lands on your reels, these are the people you draft — Visionary, Operator, Builder, Financier, one irreversible lock at a time. How few companies in the world will be worth more than yours?
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