eBay
Marketplace where gummy bags were sold for roughly twice the price due to demand.
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Videos Mentioning eBay
Social Media Is Dead
GaryVee
A platform for buying and selling goods, mentioned as a place to sell items found at flea markets and garage sales, and to check the market for V Friends NFTs.
Sophia Amorusa Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
The online marketplace where Sophia Amoruso started Nasty Gal, selling vintage clothing, before moving to her own website.
Bryan Johnson Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
E-commerce company that acquired Braintree in 2013 for $800 million.
Peter Thiel on How to Think for Yourself | Q&A on The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
Acquired PayPal in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
Reid Hoffman & Michael McCullough Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
Acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion.
Samy Kamkar Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
An online marketplace where the discontinued Mattel I'm Me toy can be purchased cheaply for hacking purposes.
Robert Rodriguez Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
The company that acquired Braintree for $800 million.
This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos
Y Combinator
Farza started his first company by selling items on eBay at age 13.
Tracy DiNunzio Interview: Part 1 (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
Used as a comparison point for Tradesy's business model, noted as being more complex than Tradesy.
Marc Goodman Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
An online marketplace, used as an analogy to describe how Silk Road operated by taking a cut of sales.
Tea with GaryVee 97: AI’s Impact on 9–5, Escaping a Job You Hate & Fixing Your Mindset
GaryVee
Mentioned as a platform for selling.
The Random Show w/ Tim and Kevin Rose | Episode 23 P2 / Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss
Mentioned as a platform where people sell things, and contrasted with the speed of Ship's micro-auctions.
Why Social Media Will Change Your Life in 2026
GaryVee
A major online marketplace where Geared technology helps brands launch products.
How to Be a Great Founder with Reid Hoffman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 13)
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a startup that Benchmark was the sole investor in, highlighting the difficulty of identifying contrarian opportunities.
Andrew Chen — Growth Secrets from Uber, Exploring the Metaverse, Startup Investing, and More
Tim Ferriss
An e-commerce company, mentioned as where PayPal was built to facilitate payments, later acquiring PayPal.
Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)
Y Combinator
An example of a company that succeeded by starting with a very small market niche (Pez dispensers, Beanie Babies) and expanding.
Hiroki Takeuchi
Y Combinator
The e-commerce platform for which Automatic provided inventory management tools.
Patrick Collison — CEO of Stripe | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
An e-commerce company on which Automatic, Patrick Collison's previous company, was a front-end for sellers to upload products.
Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise Venture Capital?
Y Combinator
Mentioned alongside Amazon as a large company contributing to the significant spending in mobile apps, which are not necessarily VC-backed.
How New Technology Creates New Businesses
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an example of a platform that enabled new business opportunities through online arbitrage and selling.
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP
Y Combinator
Mentioned alongside PayPal as an example where a service became so mainstream on a platform that shutting it down caused backlash.
Emmett Shear at Startup School SV 2014
Y Combinator
The platform where Kiko Calendar was sold after Google Calendar's launch.
Work at a Startup Expo 2019
Y Combinator
An e-commerce company, mentioned as a previous employer of one of LogDNA's leaders.
Olga Vidisheva Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015
Y Combinator
Shown as an example of a marketplace that experienced two years of very painful growth before achieving exponential growth, with investors who understood this early stage.