American e-commerce marketplace founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 that invented the online person-to-person auction model and briefly appeared to be winning the internet commerce race against Amazon.
Proved that strangers would transact reliably online through a reputation/feedback system — the foundational trust infrastructure of the internet economy — and built the first truly global consumer-to-consumer marketplace.
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