eBay Inc. (via Public) / How eBay's Buy APIs Hit $5 Billion in Gross Merchandise Bought
How eBayâs Buy APIs Hit $5 Billion in Gross Merchandise Bought At eBay, we have a large, powerful and vibrant ecosystem of third-party applications. For us, APIs are the foundation of the business-to-developer model and are instrumental in achieving business objectives and overall success. We treat our APIs as first-class products that democratize access to our marketplace platform - and we share the success with our partners. We launched the developers program in November 2000, and the initial set of APIs brought a lot of value to our platform. Some of them are still heavily used and ar...