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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

After 3 years as “the business guy” I was now going to get a chance to work with the deeply technical group and earn my reputation. It was in 1995 when I realized the power of personal branding. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0