Internet startups by ex-eBay employees
Hi all,
This one is for once not about language learning. As you may know Myngle’s founders come from eBay and Berlitz. eBay is one of the world’s largest internet companies, but did you know that it exists not much longer than 10 years? Can you imagine the change this company has gone through? 6 years ago when I started, eBay was only about 4 years old with around 4,000 employees, resulting in 14,000 when I left last year!
In the 5 years I have worked with eBay I have worked with the smartest, most energetic, entrepreneurial types in the world. These entrepreneurs, alongside the eBay community, made eBay big. You can imagine that many of these people, like Marina and me, started their own company after working for eBay. But who are these people and what companies did they initiate? Which start ups arose in the brain of eBay employees?
To quote Matthew Winters: ‘very competent people have found their way out of the company to do great things.”
 Let me sum up the ones I know of. I will restrict myself to internet companies, started by people from eBay Inc (eBay,PayPal,Skype). If you have any others which are not listed here, please add it in the comments and I will add them on the list:
Ok we will not be modest and start with ourselves:
Company name and founders:
Myngle | Marina Tognetti, Egbert van Keulen |
Youtube | Chad Hurley, Steve Chen |
Yelp | Geoff Donaker |
Introniche | Sam Desimpel |
Arena Flowers | Will Wynne |
Vzaar | Adrian Sevitz, Jamie Parkins, Dan Wilson |
Slide | Max Levchin |
EatYourCake | Azita Qadri |
VirtuOz | Pascal Levy-Garboua |
Lokaliz | Pascal Levy-Garboua |
Peter Thiel, Josh Kopelman | |
Icon Mobile Entertainment | Gerrit Mueller |
Adshopping | Dr. Ralph Werner |
M10 | Joerg Rheinboldt |
Founderslink | Pascal Finette |
Elektronauten | Jane & Pascal Finette |
Susuh | Ute Moritz |
Moo | Lisa Rodwell |
Tokoni | Mary-Lou Song & Alex Kazim |
Bornforsports | Daniel Klarkowski |
Pets.be | Dries Coucke |
Hiogi | Bjoern Behrendt |
  Quite a list, do you know of any which I missed? Just put it in the comments and I will add it.
Egbert
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June 6th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Hi Egbert,
Great post and thanks for including me in this illustrious list.
I’m also thinking off:
– Dries Coucke: http://www.pets.be
– Daniel Klarkowski: http://www.bornforsports.de
– Lisa Rodwell: http://www.moo.com
– Mary-Lou Song & Alex Kazim: http://www.tokoni.com
I’m sure there’s even more around, to be discovered in the comments to be added.
Sam
June 6th, 2008 at 8:02 am
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