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It was late 1996, and eBay’s online auction business had been solidly profitable since it was launched; the company did not need a cent. But Pierre Omidyar, twenty-nine, the original founder, and his new partner, Jeff Skoll, thirty-one, were the rare entrepreneurs who knew they needed to hire a CEO and other seasoned executives with skills they lac
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Engineers work out the future, competing fiercely, building on each other’s work, and giving birth to new advances that Dorsey, the romantic, hasn’t even meditated on yet.