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Or not somebody could set up a website and actually make money. and the proof of concept of that was pornography. >> for the most part, entrepreneurs have not figured out a way to make profit on the internet. that is, until ebay came along. >> pierre omidyar started the auction site as a hobby. three years later, it has a market value of close to $6 billion and is a superstar on wall street. ebay makes its money by charging to list an item, then takes a small percentage of the final selling pric...

>> our little shopping carts that we now use are invented by pornographers. >> what was unknown was whether or not somebody could set up a website and actually make money. and the proof of concept of that was pornography. >> for the most part, entrepreneurs have not figured out a way to make profit on the internet. that is, until ebay came along. >> pierre omidyar started the auction site as a hobby. three years later, it has a market value of close to $6 billion and is a superstar on wall stree...

It boosted consumer acceptance of online credit card use. >> our little shopping carts that we now use are invented by pornographers. >> what was unknown was whether or not somebody could set up a website and actually make money. and the proof of concept of that was pornography. >> for the most part, entrepreneurs have not figured out a way to make profit on the internet. that is, until ebay came along. >> pierre omidyar started the auction site as a hobby. three years later, it has a market val...

Market value of close to $6 billion and is a superstar on wall street. ebay makes its money by charging to list an item, then takes a small percentage of the final selling price if it sells. if youve got an item you want to sell like a 1967 green hornet lunch pail, for example, you write up a brief description, add a digital photo and decide on an opening bid. >> ebay really changed everything, and not because what they were offering was so incredible and revolutionary. essentially what they wer...

What was unknown was whether or not somebody could set up a website and actually make money. and the proof of concept of that was pornography. >> for the most part, entrepreneurs have not figured outs how to make profit on the internet, that is until ebay came along. >> pierre omidyar started the auction site as a hobby. three years later, it has a market value of close to $6 billion and is a superstar on wall street. ebay makes its money by charging to list an item, then takes a small percentag...

Of online credit card use. >> our little shopping carts that we now use are invented by pornographers. what was unknown was whether or not somebody could set up a website and actually make money. and the proof of concept of that was pornography. >> for the most part, entrepreneurs have not figured outs how to make profit on the internet, that is until ebay came along. >> pierre omidyar started the auction site as a hobby. three years later, it has a market value of close to $6 billion and is a s...

Commerce. it boosted consumer acceptance of online credit card use. >> our little shopping carts that we now use are invented by pornographers. what was unknown whether somebody could set up a website and actually make money. and the proof of concept of that was pornography. >> for the most part, entrepreneurs have not figured out a way to make profit on the internet. that is until ebay came along. >> the auction site was started as a hobby. three years later it has a market value close to $6 mi...

>> stop sweating. >> the adult industry was very interested in figuring out how to make credit cards work. that had benefits for online commerce. it boosted consumer acceptance of online credit card use. >> our little shopping carts that we now use are invented by important pornographers. what was unknown whether somebody could set up a website and actually make money. and the proof of concept of that was porn ography. >> for the most part, entrepreneurs have not figured out a way to make profit...

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