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In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.

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In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

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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.

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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.

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I do like to fly under the radar. When I walk around town, the only people I want to recognise me and call me by my name are the folks at Starbucks.

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News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

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A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things.

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I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

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When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are afraid to talk.

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Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Businessman

Born: June 21st, 1967

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