{"id":16394,"date":"2018-10-21T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/?p=16394"},"modified":"2018-10-21T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T15:13:07","slug":"the-success-story-of-ebay-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/the-success-story-of-ebay-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Success Story of eBay\u2019s Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.successstory.com\/adminimg\/image_uploads\/content_images\/ebay-founder_1466070829.jpg\" alt=\"\u00d9\u0086\u00d8\u00aa\u00d9\u008a\u00d8\u00ac\u00d8\u00a9 \u00d8\u00a8\u00d8\u00ad\u00d8\u00ab \u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u0084\u00d8\u00b5\u00d9\u0088\u00d8\u00b1 \u00d8\u00b9\u00d9\u0086 \u00e2\u0080\u00aaThe success story of Ebay founder\u00e2\u0080\u00ac\u00e2\u0080\u008f\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Pierre Omidyar is internationally recognized for his philanthropy and runs several nonprofit charitable organizations that are active around the world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0628\u062c\u0627\u0646\u0628 \u0627\u0646\u0634\u0627\u0624\u0629 \u0644\u0640\u00a0<strong>\u0645\u0648\u0642\u0639 \u0627\u064a\u0628\u0627\u0649<\/strong>\u00a0\u0627\u0644\u0630\u0649 \u062d\u0642\u0642 \u0646\u062c\u0627\u062d\u0627\u064b \u0648\u0627\u0633\u0639\u0627\u064b \u0641\u0649 \u0645\u062c\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0631\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0629 \u0648\u062a\u0648\u0641\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u062f\u0645\u0627\u062a<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">\u0645\u0648\u0644\u062f\u0647 \u0648\u0646\u0634\u0623\u062a\u0647<span class=\"s4\">:<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Pierre Morad Omidyar was born in the French capital, Paris, in<span class=\"s3\">\u00a021\u00a0<\/span>\u064a\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0648 \u0639\u0627\u0645<span class=\"s3\">\u00a01967\u00a0<\/span>His parents were Iranian, and he moved with them to Washington, the capital of the United States, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">at the age of six. He grew up there, where his father worked as a surgeon. He spent two years in Hawaii, then returned to Washington.<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Pierre was fascinated by computers and electronics while still in high school in Maryland. He later graduated from St. Andrew\u2019s School. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Year<span class=\"s3\">\u00a01984\u00a0<\/span>He then graduated from Tufts University with a degree in computer science in<span class=\"s3\">\u00a01988<\/span>Afterward, he worked at Apple Computer and taught himself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Programmed on Apple Macintosh computers and helped write MacDraw, a computer drawing program.<span class=\"s3\">\u00a0.<\/span>\u0641\u0649 \u0639\u0627\u0645<span class=\"s3\">\u00a01993\u00a0<\/span>Pierre founded a company that manufactured <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">printer ink cartridges with three of his colleagues. He also worked as a software engineer for an online store called<span class=\"s3\">\u00a0(\u00a0<\/span>\u0627\u0649 \u0634\u0648\u0628<span class=\"s3\">)\u00a0<\/span>which was sold in<span class=\"s3\">\u00a01996\u00a0<\/span>For a company <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Microsoft after Pierre left the company.<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&gt;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">the idea of creating eBay<span class=\"s4\">\u00a0:<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2013\u00a0<\/span>Pierre remained fascinated by computers, especially their potential.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/7%d8%a3%d8%ae%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%af%d8%af-%d9%85%d8%b4%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d9%84\/\"> E-commerce<\/a> While online and during his time in San Francisco, he met a woman named Pamela Wesley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> He married her. She sold a particular type of candy, which gave Pierre the idea of creating an online store to make buying and selling easier for her and to sell <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">candy online.<span class=\"s3\">.\u00a0<\/span>Pierre created a basic prototype of the store, based on the idea of an auction. He later changed its name. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0645<span class=\"s3\">\u00a0(\u00a0<\/span>\u0627\u064a\u0628\u0627\u0649<span class=\"s3\">\u00a0)\u00a0<\/span>Its services were initially free, but later became paid to cover the costs of hosting the website.<span class=\"s3\">\u00a0.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Pierre later expanded the site\u2019s services so that he earned a commission on every sale made on eBay, which he invested in further development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> the website and the expansion of its services<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">eBay\u2019s website then achieved phenomenal success, with sales increasing by<span class=\"s3\">\u00a030%\u00a0<\/span>for three consecutive years. This led to more people using the site and an increase in <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">transactions, buying, and selling. As a result, Pierre left his job to focus on the website, which grew in scope and began facilitating transactions in all kinds of goods, even items that <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">could not be sold. eBay became a comprehensive online marketplace.<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0642\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u064a\u064a\u0631 \u0628\u0639\u0645\u0644 \u0646\u0638\u0627\u0645 \u0639\u0644\u0649\u00a0<em>\u0645\u0648\u0642\u0639 \u0627\u064a\u0628\u0627\u0649<\/em>\u00a0\u064a\u062a\u064a\u062d \u0644\u0644\u0628\u0627\u0626\u0639\u064a\u0646 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0634\u062a\u0631\u064a\u0646 \u062a\u0642\u064a\u064a\u0645 \u0628\u0639\u0636\u0647\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0639\u0636 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0648\u0642\u0639 \u0648\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0638\u0627\u0645 \u0647\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644 \u0645\u0646 \u0646\u0648\u0639\u0629 \u0641\u0649 \u0627\u064a\u0628\u0627\u0649 \u0645\u0645\u0627 \u062f\u0641\u0639 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">other sites to adopt it as well. In [year],<span class=\"s3\">\u00a01996\u00a0<\/span>eBay was receiving around 250,000 auctions, followed by two million auctions the next year.<span class=\"s3\">\u00a01997 .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">eBay\u2019s sales in [year] reached<span class=\"s3\">\u00a01998\u00a0<\/span>$74 million. It had 30 employees and more than one million users. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Sales doubled, and shares in the site were offered for purchase, making Pierre a billionaire in a single day.<span class=\"s3\">\u00a0.<\/span>However, there were also issues with<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> the website, and Pierre would quickly resolve them. In<span class=\"s3\">\u00a01999\u00a0<\/span>the website went down for<span class=\"s3\">\u00a022\u00a0<\/span>consecutive hours. It was a potential disaster, but<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> Pierre resolved the issue and handled the situation with skill and ingenuity. Customers were contacted and apologized to for the outage.<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">eBay made a deal to acquire the largest online bank,<span class=\"s3\">\u00a0(\u00a0<\/span>\u0628\u0627\u0649 \u0628\u0627\u0644<span class=\"s3\">)\u00a0<\/span>That\u2019s why it is the most widely used bank on eBay.<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Jeffrey Skoll was hired as eBay\u2019s first president in [year].<span class=\"s3\">\u00a01996\u00a0<\/span>\u0648\u0641\u0649 \u0646\u0641\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0645<span class=\"s3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The site entered into its first deal with an online travel company using<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> SmartMarket technology to offer airline tickets and other travel products on the site. This increased the site\u2019s popularity and user base, and was followed by<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> further deals between the site and major companies around the world.<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0641\u0649 \u0639\u0627\u0645<span class=\"s3\">\u00a02008\u00a0<\/span>The company expanded worldwide, its user base grew, and it hired more employees. The company turned a profit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0628\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0644\u064a\u0627\u0631\u0627\u062a<span class=\"s3\">\u00a0.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">Factors Behind eBay\u2019s Success<span class=\"s4\">\u00a0:<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Pierre\u2019s passion for helping people and solving problems creatively and intelligently inspired the community to help his site succeed and grow.<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Pierre emphasized that community members were responsible for reporting any abuse, allowing the community to protect itself.<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Pierre highlights the role of the company\u2019s CEO, noting that without her success, professionalism, and extensive experience, the site would not have become so important.<span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u064a\u0639\u062f \u0628\u064a\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0648\u0645\u064a\u062f\u064a\u0627\u0631 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0639\u0631\u0648\u0641\u064a\u0646 \u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0627 \u0641\u064a \u0645\u062c\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0645\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u064a\u0631\u064a \u0648\u0644\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u062f\u064a\u062f \u0645\u0646 \u0645\u0646\u0638\u0645\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0645\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u064a\u0631\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u063a\u064a\u0631 \u0631\u0628\u062d\u064a\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0649 \u062a\u0639\u0645\u0644 \u0628\u0646\u0634\u0627\u0637 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u0633\u062a\u0648\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645 \u0647\u0630\u0627<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ibtdi_aa_focus_keyword":"","_ibtdi_aa_secondary_keywords":"","_ibtdi_aa_audience":"","_ibtdi_aa_tone":"","_ibtdi_aa_summary":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_name":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_bio":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_url":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewed_date":"","_ibtdi_aa_service_id":"","_ibtdi_aa_related_ids":"","_ibtdi_aa_human_reviewed":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable_links":"","_ibtdi_aa_sources":"","_ibtdi_aa_update_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[17462,7216,186,17464,17461,17459,17465,2125,17460,17463],"class_list":["post-16394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-491","tag-17462","tag-7216","tag-186","tag-17464","tag-17461","tag-17459","tag-17465","tag-2125","tag-17460","tag-17463"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}