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$1 billion in small-business loans to more than 20,000 merchants who sell products on its platform.

Amazon faced a similar challenge when they decided to sell used books. A radical idea? Certainly. Did it upset the publishers who sold them books? Absolutely. But it was an idea that worked for consumers, and paved the way for Amazon to create a multibillion-dollar third-party seller business.

That’s the smoldering ambition of every entrepreneur: to one day create an organization that society deems worthy of a price tag. These are the

Alfred Lin, former COO and CEO at Zappos,

Over the next two weeks, he met with Omidyar outside of Benchmark’s office and discovered that he was an anomalous kind of engineer, one who was consumed by the idea of community—every other sentence, he spoke about the eBay community, building the community, learning from the community, protecting the community. It was a passion similar to what, i

Kleiner Perkins built a valuable keiretsu of growing companies that could share talent and resources, increasing their chances of success.

“Masa is the master of the internet universe,” Cotsakos said. “He has a clear vision of how technology is going to connect everyone globally in the next fifty years and doesn’t let daily, weekly, or monthly fluctuations get in the way.”

Jeff embraced the Japanese business philosophy “Kaizen”, which describes how improvement in productivity is a gradual and methodical process