Founded in San Jose on September 4, 1995 by Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll as
Auctionweb, part of a larger personal site that included, among other things,
Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus.
The first item sold was Omidyar's broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished,
he contacted the winning bidder and asked, "did he [...]
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