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Former eBay CEO Devin Wenig has co-founded a company called Symbolic.ai, which is “building a platform and application to bring advanced AI capabilities to Enterprise Publishers and professional writers in news, research and communications.” Wenig […]
eBay added a new member to its Board of Directors on Tuesday, the company announced on Thursday, expanding the board to 10 members. Shripriya Mahesh worked for eBay for 5 years in the early 2000’s […]
eBay CEO Jamie Iannone celebrated Pierre Omidyar’s founding of the company 25 years ago with a post on the eBay Blog. Iannone reviewed some of eBay’s highlights, writing, “Our marketplace is filled with storied firsts […]
Pierre Omidyar created the eBay website over a Labor Day weekend in 1995, which was called AuctionWeb at the time. In an interview in 2010, Omidyar talked about eBay’s feedback system that was predicated on […]
eBay founder Pierre Omidyar has given away 10 percent of his shares in the ecommerce company, part of a massive philanthropic initiative from a multi-billionaire who has indicated his desire to give away most of his fortune. […]
Is eBay founder Pierre Omidyar “the consummate passive-aggressive predator”? That’s what Pando Daily called him in an article that takes a harsh look at the role the eBay chairman played in eBay’s acquisition of a stake in […]
eBay’s Pierre Omidyar hasn’t talked this much about the company he founded in years. But in order to get press about his new startup, he’s doing interviews, and the story of eBay’s founding (the real […]
Now that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is trying to make a name for himself as a proponent of investigative journalism, some sellers have suggested a campaign to make him aware of practices at the company […]