Web 2.0 Heroes
Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers
Chapter One
Max Mancini:
eBay
"You blur the lines between a desktop experience and a
Web experience, and that's really where everything is
headed."
-Max Mancini
If you ask anyone about online auctions, chances are the first place they
would name is eBay. Ironically, eBay is more than just an auction. In fact,
eBay's business is transactions. It just happens that their most known transactions
are those of people selling items to buyers on an auction site that carries
their name.
eBay's business is centered on charging a fee for bringing a seller and a
buyer together. This transaction fee is how eBay makes money regardless of
whether a marble, a car, or a piece of land in Texas is sold. It really doesn't
matter what is sold as long as a transaction occurs.
eBay also provides a number of other services for doing commerce, including
PayPal, which, like eBay, makes money when transactions happen, but
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