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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Omidyar says he tried to imbue eBay with a "founding culture" based on the moral principles he absorbed in childhood. "My mother always taught me to treat other people the way I want to be treated and to have respect for other people," he says. "Those are just good basic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside eBay.com: Coffee With Pierre Omidyar | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Omidyar seems to realize that given his anticorporate values, it's more than a little ironic that he's one of the richest human beings on the planet. And clearly he's uncomfortable with his wealth. "What one person needs, and what one family needs and all of their future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside eBay.com: Coffee With Pierre Omidyar | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Melissa Wicker likes to shop for her friends. And she has a lot of friends--nearly 8 million, at last count. Of course, the word friend is used loosely these days, in an era when e-mail establishes instant intimacy between total strangers separated by thousands of miles. So it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auction Nation: Auction Nation | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

But Hoyt had a hobby: making decorative glass beads. Thanks to eBay, her hobby is now her livelihood. She sells as many as 3,000 beads a month, for as much as $50 each. eBay has given her more than a new career. She refers without irony to the bead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auction Nation: Auction Nation | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Think of every Baby Tap-A-Tune piano or Makeup Pretty Angelica picked by the yellow-capped pickers, packed by the blue-hatted packers and loaded by the gray-brimmed loaders at this 100,000-sq.-ft. eToys warehouse in Commerce, Calif., as another round fired in the retail-vs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clicks And Bricks | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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