QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 25th August 2009, 10:32am)
That's unfortunate - Pierre Omidyar was the guy who founded eBay, and he seemed like such a nice guy...
Many years ago, at the Computer Museum, I met a volunteer who claimed to be one of eBay's early employees (1997). I asked him what it was like to work there, and he said something to the effect that "Pierre is a real nice guy, unless you've got something that he wants. Then he'll destroy you, and everyone around you, to get it." He said he left, and blew off substantial stock options, after working there for a year and seeing Pierre and Jeff Skoll "doing business". He said he was "appalled at how ruthless and sleazy they were....they filed completely phony tax returns, they lied to the SEC, they lied to state regulators, etc. etc......"
How true is any of that? No idea. But I do know that eBay has made itself
a whole lot of
enemies over the
years.