Reedy talks about eBay’s site statistics - on an average day a vehicle is sold every 2 minutes, a car part or accessory sold every 3 seconds, diamond jewelry sold every 83 seconds, and timberland shoes sold every 10 minutes. eBay brings buyers and sellers together, she says. The company has 83 m...
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Reedy talks about the importance of being flexible. In a high growth company, like eBay, opportunities arise everyday and if a company is not flexible it will miss these opportunities, she says. Similarly, as issues arise, eBay is flexible and willing to tackle these issues, she adds.
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Lynn Reedy, senior vice president of product, development and architecture at eBay, sets the stage for the talk about eBay, its history, leadership and how to be successful at a high growth company.
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Reedy talks about the leadership characteristics at eBay - understanding the eBay DNA, always creating a compelling sense of purpose, setting clear objectives, building a strong team, knowing how to prioritize, how to multi task and understand when you need to have a sense of urgency, diving dee...
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Reedy talks about eBay’s global presence in over 27 countries. eBay has partial ownership in some companies, she says. Eighteen countries were running an eBay platform in 1998, for example, when eBay was only operating in the US.
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Reedy talks about the importance of rapid execution with integrity and confidence: executing with a vengeance. Another important principle, she says, is to keep the community front and center in the decision making. The founder understood the power of the community and till this day the communit...
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Reedy tells the story of the brand name eBay. The founder,Pierre Omidyar, wanted to call the website "echobay" but it was taken, so he went with eBay.
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Reedy explains how a company goes from 3 billion to 30 billion. eBay has less that 1% of the retail market in most cases. Management believes that eBay should do more of the stuff that they are already doing. eBay will expand to new countries and work at categories like business and industrial. T...
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Reedy talks about the three key factors in eBay’s success: 1) A great idea 2) A great business model without sales force or inventory 3) A management team that ensured eBay was at the right place at the right time.
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Reedy talks about how eBay views PayPal. PayPal is a payment platform while eBay is the auction platform and hence the two coexist very well. Tilenius talks about the integration of PayPal into eBay. They plan to keep it as a separate platform because the vision is to have PayPal the payment plat...
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Reedy talks about how the eBay team came to the rescue in September 2001. The team was given only three days to launch The Auction for America, which required 20 hours alone for coding and additional time for testing. One hundred people worked on this over the weekend and they had the product on...
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