Tag: ebay
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Risk Tolerance as a Competitive Weapon
After Josh Kopelman sold Half.com to eBay in 2000 he stayed on with the company to witness eBay’s defeat by and eventual acquisition of PayPal—at the time a relatively small startup. Kopeland suggests that the main reason for PayPal’s success was their risk tolerance in a number of situations: Legal Risk Paypal’s product was widely…