E-Commerce Platform Quotes

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.

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.

eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web. The second thing was what Pierre said: "People have met their best friends on eBay. What this has enabled is truly online community."

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace.

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.

For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

Etsy helps work be more human - you can stay at home and work alongside your kids - and it makes commerce more personal.

We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform

Shopify has been a perpetually underestimated company at every point of its history.

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.

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

I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.

Pinterest is like window shopping 3.0.

Unlike Etsy, which is all handmade, we print and ship the products, not the designers. We relieve the designer from having to make and ship everything, package it, and provide customer service. All the designer has to do is submit art and keep doing what they love doing.