"Buying Cars on the Internet" Clip from Interview with Pierre Omidyar, 2008

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Artifact Overview

Pierre Omidyar launched "Auction Web," later known to the world as eBay, in 1995. The site connected a buyer and seller together over a shared economic interest. Coupled with a simple concept--a feedback forum that provided an area for community comments both positive and negative-- eBay helped Omidyar establish "reputation economics" as a way for individuals to do business on the web.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Film clip

Date Made

25 March 2008

Subject Date

25 March 2008

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2008.75.1.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Pierre Omidyar.
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