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May 2015
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66. (Ch. 7.3) The Founding of eBay

Brian McCullough
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...or, to be more strictly accurate, this episode covers the founding of AuctionWeb, the site that would become eBay. How Pierre Omidyar founded a company that brought auctions to the web and revolutionized what classified ads and ecommerce could be.

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