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Discussed as a potential acquisition target, with similarities to GameStop noted. observed
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the average gaming store purchase is about 40 and ebay does about 312 million transactions a year so our tam is about 12 billion dollars
and then we'll touch on ebay buying a trading card marketplace in our m a segment and what you can learn as a founder or capital allocator from a niche marketplace forcing ebay to buy them because they kicked ebay's ass yep it's just that simple
paypal it was a startup that launched effectively as an involuntary app on top of the ebay market at that time ebay had a monopoly on the auction market and that was the key sort of beachhead market for online payments so we launched on top of ebay they were constantly trying to dislodge us and remove us from their platform and really the only thing keeping them from just switching us off was a was an antitrust thread we actually spun up you could call it a lobbying operation where we would send
Somebody who's going to use us is going to be an eBay seller, an Etsy seller, somebody that's, that's selling their items around the world.
Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 1083 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 1083 Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project 2019-10-11 ↗
| Attribute | Value | Kind | Source | Observed | State | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common_name | eBay | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-18 | normalized | 0.60 |
community.hn.max_points | 1083 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-18 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 50 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-18 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17561898", "title": "eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the Bay Area", "points": 222, "created_at": "2018-07-18", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verificat | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-18 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17561898", "title": "eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the Bay Area", "points": 222, "created_at": "2018-07-18", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verificat | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-16 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17561898", "title": "eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the Bay Area", "points": 222, "created_at": "2018-07-18", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verificat | observed | artifact ↗ | 2018-07-18 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17561898", "title": "eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the Bay Area", "points": 222, "created_at": "2018-07-18", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verificat | observed | artifact ↗ | 2018-07-18 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17561898", "title": "eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the Bay Area", "points": 222, "created_at": "2018-07-18", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verificat | observed | artifact ↗ | 2018-07-18 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17561898", "title": "eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the Bay Area", "points": 222, "created_at": "2018-07-18", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verificat | observed | artifact ↗ | 2018-07-18 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227961", "title": "Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project", "points": 1083, "created_at": "2019-10-11"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-18 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227961", "title": "Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project", "points": 1083, "created_at": "2019-10-11"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-16 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227961", "title": "Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project", "points": 1083, "created_at": "2019-10-11"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-10-11 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227961", "title": "Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project", "points": 1083, "created_at": "2019-10-11"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-10-11 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227961", "title": "Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project", "points": 1083, "created_at": "2019-10-11"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-10-11 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227961", "title": "Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project", "points": 1083, "created_at": "2019-10-11"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-10-11 | normalized | 0.20 |
description | Discussed as a potential acquisition target, with similarities to GameStop noted. | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-18 | normalized | 0.60 |
index.ai_tie | NOT_AI | observed | classify | 2026-07-25 | derived | 0.60 |
sector | emerging | derived | calc | 2026-08-08 | normalized | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01KYF5EWGEJ7693XWYQTDPJDPR", "signals": [{"quote": "Somebody who's going to use us is going to be an eBay seller, an Etsy seller, somebody that's, that's selling their it | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-04-15 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01KYGJQC20QP9P3NJAHG8264BP", "signals": [{"quote": "paypal it was a startup that launched effectively as an involuntary app on top of the ebay market at that time ebay ha | observed | artifact ↗ | 2021-06-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01KZSFE3KBKFKCFZMHKJS645PX", "signals": [{"quote": "and then we'll touch on ebay buying a trading card marketplace in our m a segment and what you can learn as a founder | observed | artifact ↗ | 2022-08-23 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0AH322AQ255ZRKE3Z9GMW08", "signals": [{"quote": "the average gaming store purchase is about 40 and ebay does about 312 million transactions a year so our tam is about | observed | artifact ↗ | 2024-05-02 | promoted | 0.50 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "video", "title": "www.youtube.com/watch — ebay", "source_id": "01KY4TJK8B1WD3N270JD5W5G0G-m-743598aceb5d73b9", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:a455b90558db117f236d3c73853ced4fe15a7519bcc4be5 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-22 | normalized | 0.95 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "video", "title": "Shyp picks up your stuff and mails it for you — ebay", "source_id": "01KXRSPWK2N113NKVSMWMYW5BJ-m-743598aceb5d73b9", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:ec166d6d5af10dde6cdb1a7 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-26 | normalized | 0.95 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "video", "title": "E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more — ebay", "source_id": "01KXRSG0ZPNE41TDS3M95N46J3-m-743598aceb5d73b9", "ex | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-27 | normalized | 0.95 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "video", "title": "Scaling AI Photo Editing to 300M Users with Photoroom’s Matt Rouif | AI Basics with Google Cloud — ebay", "source_id": "01KXRSP80JRZAJ5TP2TYG4154J-m-743598aceb5d73b9", "ext | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-07 | normalized | 0.95 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "video", "title": "Startup pitch competition! Jason invests $25K into one of three founders | E1942 — ebay", "source_id": "01KXRSPAZH6VTCDTBB6HT1K1VY-m-743598aceb5d73b9", "extract_ref": "arti | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-08 | normalized | 0.95 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "video", "title": "Building for the circular economy and the future of shopping with Poshmark’s Manish Chandra | E1805 — ebay", "source_id": "01KXRSPCQ2A6EVZ7DSR3W7VENF-m-743598aceb5d73b9", " | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-10 | normalized | 0.95 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "video", "title": "FTX's leaked financials, $AMZN ramps up healthcare interest + Swayed Founder Arjun Shokeen | E1541 — ebay", "source_id": "01KXRSPG3J3KGRY0764R758YXS-m-743598aceb5d73b9", "e | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-11 | normalized | 0.95 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "video", "title": "How to come up with a startup idea (FounderU) + Ask an Angel with Zach Coelius | E1263 — ebay", "source_id": "01KXRSPKQAC3D48WR01YD860QD-m-743598aceb5d73b9", "extract_ref": | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-16 | normalized | 0.95 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "video", "title": "China cracks down on US IPOs, winning founder qualities, Ask Jason: accelerators, investing | E1244 — ebay", "source_id": "01KXRSPKZR5FQRY5EACPSC8HN7-m-743598aceb5d73b9", " | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-16 | normalized | 0.95 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "video", "title": "- Careers - Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office — ebay", "source_id": "01KXRSQ19PSEBSD58Q3BWF29QQ-m-743598aceb5d73b9", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:b759d2ac686b754ac1 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-18 | normalized | 0.95 |