Pierre Omidyar Quotes

Pierre Omidyar — French Businessman born on June 21, 1967,

Pierre Morad Omidyar is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of the eBay auction site, and served as Chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998 initial public offering. Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond nonprofits to include for-profits and public policy... (wikipedia)

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.

I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods will trade at a fair value only when everyone has access to the same information.

If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

Pierre Omidyar Quotes

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