Jay Chiat Quotes

I'm an online shopper, so that's what I do in my free time. A lot of online shopping, and I just like to see new styles and new people.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription.

I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

If Twitter genuinely wants users to buy things at scale, they have to give us a chance to consider the offers and make a decision in a matter of minutes/hours/days, not just seconds.

Technology evolves continuously with solutions getting richer. For example, many of the earlier e-commerce ventures failed because of weak technology infrastructure.

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.

Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.

Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos.

Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.

The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay.

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.'

Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.

Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that from the app store, and now we know that from publishing.

Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

Technology has come a long way since PayPal.

When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.