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截至2005年第四季度,有1．8亿位真实用户在eBay做着最现实的生意。在美国,它每1分钟售出一辆车;在澳洲,每1分钟售出一个电脑游戏;在中国,每1分钟售出一部手机。很难想象,这样的一个商业帝国在 1998年2月的时候还只是一个30人规模、年收入400万美元的小公司,而到了2005年,eBay的生意基本遍布了全世界,年收入达到45．52亿美元,成为跳蚤市场的主导者。这一切改变都从eBay公司请来了一位叫梅格·惠特曼(Meg Whitman)的传统行业高管开始。
As of the fourth quarter of 2005, 180 million real users do the most realistic business on eBay. In the United States, it sells a car every 1 minute; in Australia it sells a computer game every 1 minute; and in China it sells a cellphone every 1 minute. It is hard to imagine that such a business empire was only a 30-person-sized, $ 4 million small company in February 1998. By 2005, eBay’s business was basically all over the world, with an annual income of 45 .52 billion US dollars, a flea market leader. All this change came from eBay hiring a traditional industry executive called Meg Whitman.