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"eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web. The second thing was what Pierre said: "People have met their best friends on eBay. What this has enabled is truly online community.""
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Source: Q&A: A Talk with Meg Whitman. Interview with Stephen B. Shepard, www.bloomberg.com. March 19, 2001.
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