Pierre Omidyar

Breaking the Rules

Pierre Omidyar, creator of eBay, urges young innovators to be passionate about their work, to ignore the critics, and not to take “no” for an answer.

Inventor-entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar knows that sometimes, great progress comes from breaking the rules—in fact, without a little bit of rebelliousness, there would be no eBay. In an interview with The Henry Ford, the online auction giant’s founder talks about how opening himself to new possibilities gave way to one of the Internet’s biggest successes.

Inventor-entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar knows that sometimes, great progress comes from breaking the rules—in fact, without a little bit of rebelliousness, there would be no eBay. In an interview with The Henry Ford, the online auction giant’s founder talks about how opening himself to new possibilities gave way to one of the Internet’s biggest successes.

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