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|  | | | Individual of the Week - Pierre Omidyr
Today, Pierre Omidyar is hailed as the architect of a new age of
digital commerce, but the founder of eBay, the world¹s largest personal
online trading community, became a web entrepreneur almost by accident.
His girlfriend, an avid collector of Pez candy dispensers, was having
trouble finding fellow devotees. Omidyar placed a page on his personal
website to help her and other Pez collectors trade their treasures.
Visitors began posting offers and requests for other items, and paying
Omidyar for the privilege.
Five years later, eBay attracts more than 1.5
billion page views per month, and hosts nearly 4 million auctions in
more than 4,000 categories every day. Almost half a million new items
are added for sale every 24 hours. The price of eBay stock has risen by
as much as 1,400 percent since its initial public offering in 1998.
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