Lynn Reedy

Lynn Reedy, eBay Stephanie Tilenius, eBay

eBay's Future: Cross-Border Trading

Tilenius talks about the long term plan of eBay, which is to have a language translator so that there is one platform and one user ...

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Lynn Reedy, eBay Stephanie Tilenius, eBay

eBay: The World's Online Marketplace

Reedy shares a commercial that is going to air later in the week. She talks about eBay's vision - providing a global online trading platform ...

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Lynn Reedy, eBay Stephanie Tilenius, eBay

eBay Statistics: Usage and Revenue

Reedy talks about eBay's site statistics - on an average day a vehicle is sold every 2 minutes, a car part or accessory sold every 3 seconds, ...

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Lynn Reedy, eBay Stephanie Tilenius, eBay

Global eBay

Reedy talks about eBay's global presence in over 27 countries. eBay has partial ownership in some companies, she says. Eighteen countries were running an eBay platform ...

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eBay Volume Statistics

Reedy explains that eBay has 670 million page views a day, 120 million searches, and 4 billion database calls. She talks about how eBay uses a special platform ...

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What Are the Three Key Factors in eBay’s Success?

Reedy talks about the three key factors in eBay's success: 1) A great idea

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Right People, Right Time, Right Behavior

Reedy talks about a key principle that the CEO instilled in the management of the company: the right people at the right job at the ...

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Develop the Right Strategy

Reedy explains that another principle instilled in the people at eBay is to develop and execute the right strategy at the right time. If you ...

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Execute With a Vengeance

Reedy talks about the importance of rapid execution with integrity and confidence: executing with a vengeance. Another important principle, she says, is to keep the ...

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Keep the Community Front and Center in Decision-Making

Reedy talks about how eBay uses the community and their feedback for every new feature they develop. eBay is not a product but a platform, ...

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Engineering Principles at eBay

Reedy talks about what the success in the engineering organization of a high growth company is. The business has two levers: the website, which is ...

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Auction for America: Teamwork at its Best

Reedy talks about how the eBay team came to the rescue in September 2001. The team was given only three days to launch The Auction for ...

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Continuously Improve

Reedy talks about how eBay continuously improves. She gives examples from within eBay to illustrate how they execute improvement.

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Leadership Characteristics at eBay

Reedy talks about the leadership characteristics at eBay - understanding the eBay DNA, always creating a compelling sense of purpose, setting clear objectives, building a ...

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Acquisition: eBay and Auctionco

Stephanie Tilenius, vice president and general manager for merchant services at PayPal, an eBay company, shares in detail the story of the acquisition of Auction ...

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Saving a Failing Acquisition: eBay, Auctionco and Project Golden Bell

Tilenius continues with the story of the acquisition and Project Golden Bell. A SWAT team was formed to find the right answer,she says. There ...

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Global Acquisitions: Lessons Learned

Tilenius talks about the lessons learned as eBay has grown. These include: 1) How to execute ...

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What Did eBay Do Differently Early On to Ensure Success?

Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, had a sense of community, says Tilenius. He constructed a process of feedback to make it easier for two ...

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eBay and PayPal: Going Global

eBay is in 28 countries and the company is looking into cost effective ways to enter new markets, says Reedy. PayPal will attack Europe next year. ...

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Branding: Why eBay?

Reedy tells the story of the brand name eBay. The founder,Pierre Omidyar, wanted to call the website "echobay" but it was taken, so he ...

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Strategy: Growth of eBay

Reedy explains how a company goes from 3 billion to 30 billion. eBay has less that 1% of the retail market in most cases. Management believes that eBay ...

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eBay and Wireless Trading

Tilenius talks about how eBay has the technology for wireless integration but the demand for wireless notices is not high enough. In Germany they have ...

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eBay: Areas for Improvement

An important area for improvement is cross-border trade, which includes shipping, customs and language translation, says Tilenius. Creating businesses around eBay to continue to grow ...

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eBay: Localization

eBay has about 5000 pages that must be localized, says Tilenius. Hence, eBay plans to reduce pages, keeping the important functionality and making it easier to ...

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