Pierre Omidyar Quotes

In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.

I think Amazon is the greatest start-up and the greatest company in the world. The way they are using new technologies is not just disrupting retail, it's getting ready to disrupt everything.

Airbnb is creating a new marketplace for space and is facing many of the challenges that eBay faced back in 1998 when they created a new marketplace for goods.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.

Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

I would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.

E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.

We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.

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

After I retired, it seemed to me that there was a whole new world out there, which was a digital world driven by a marketplace, basically, which had a huge potential driven by handheld devices, which would one day become the virtual retail store of India.

The Web isn't an electronic storefront to do business in the old way. The Web is the business.

The digital revolution is forever. They put importance on that option as well. With Amazon, you're getting the best of both worlds, with a whole new playing field.

It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

Selling through the internet seems to be a very good idea. There are a million areas that we can go to.