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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.

The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.

I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

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

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

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

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.

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your credit card, or makes a purchase on your account - people tend to stay away from online commerce and from trusting online services.

E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

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.

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.

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

When Amazon emerged, people had these debates about whether people would put their credit cards online.

My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.

E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.

E-commerce is not an industry; e-commerce is a tactic.

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

I would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

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