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>> tori's mother talisa lindsay is outraged. >> i don't understand it. i don't understand how our society has gotten through peer pressure to our kids that it's okay to act in violence and then want to post it on myspace or youtube or anywhere else just for the entertainment and a laugh. i mean, i don't find it funny at all. >> myspace issued a statement regarding this case. "cyberbullying and harassment are a violation of myspace's terms of use. in order to enforce our terms, myspace reviews every image and video that is hosted on the site. to our knowledge, the mentioned video was never host...

>> tori's mother talisa lindsay is outraged. >> i don't understand it. i don't understand how our society has gotten through peer pressure to our kids that it's okay to act in violence and then want to post it on myspace or youtube or anywhere else just for the entertainment and a laugh. i mean, i don't find it funny at all. >> myspace issued a statement regarding this case. "cyberbullying and harassment are a violation of myspace's terms of use. in order to enforce our terms, myspace reviews every image and video that is hosted on the site. to our knowledge, the mentioned video was never host...

Thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> how did you go from that dropout to where you are now? >> well, it's been a long road. i grew up in the suburbs and i was very kind of unhappy with the public school that i was put in and decided that it was setting me up for, like, a very predictable life, which was not what i wanted. i, like, wanted to save the world and i kind of wanted to smash capitalism, and i thought it might be possible. and at a certain point, you know, decided that i was going to smash big corporations by, i don't know, shoplifting from them, which totally didn't pan...

Is what works in life. and i actually had to learn it the hard way, which most people don't. and i had some time to hang out on the internet and myspace at the time, before facebook had really taken out, and i was seeing ads of people that put vintage ads on myspace. i wore vintage at the time and i saw the prices they were getting. i had taken community college photo classes and thought, i can do that. so i bought e-bay for did you mean he-- dummies and the rest history. >> you started selling stuff on e-bay. that's really the start of this company. >> yeah. >> you had no internet background,...

Seeing ads of people that put vintage ads on myspace. i wore vintage at the time and i saw the prices they were getting. i had taken community college photo classes and thought, i can do that. so i bought "ebay for dummies." and the rest is history. >> you started selling stuff on ebay? that's really the start of this company. >> yeah, i watched roundtables of stanford business school discussions like pet peeves with entrepreneurs so i knew kind of what i was getting myself into. i bought a book called requesting how to be smarter than your venture capitalist." one of the things that's interes...