eBay’s Rise and… Continued Rise
Back in the 1990’s, a man by the name of Pierre Omidyar, who had a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, received a complaint from his then girlfriend (now wife) — a collector of Pez dispensers — that there wasn’t any easy way for her to connect with other collectors for trading. Pierre, in his efforts to sooth his girlfriend’s suffering, built the precursor to what would become the world’s largest online auction.