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.
From Pierre Omidyar
Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
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.
You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.
If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.
In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.
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.
As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.
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.
A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things.
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