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About 2 months later we got a call from a fellow by the name of Bob Belleville, who had been at Xerox and then had moved on to Apple and was responsible for the overall engineering management for the Macintosh. He said, "I want to bring Steve Jobs over and see what you guys are doing." So they came over, we went through the same spiel, an

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“There’s something about forty bucks,” Shader argued, “that has to do with the fact that’s the price above which you start getting nervous about lack of recourse.” He proposed a business that would provide eBay traders with escrow and payment services—“a branded infrastructure for safe and convenient person-to-person commerce.” It would make people

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