What is Bay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on 

The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. . Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet 

eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.
Who came up with the idea for bay?
What it a hobby for him?
Where was Peter born?
Where did he move?
What did he become interested in in high school?
What university did peter graduate from?
Did Meg Whitman work for Ebay?
What was her job title?
What can people buy and sell on Ebay?
When did the .com crash happen?
Did Ebay make it through that time?
At what number is Ebay in the most visited list?
Does ebay get a percentage of sells?
How many items are listed on ebay daily?
what year did Peter graduated from College?
Peter Omidyar
The idea came from Peter Omidyar
Yes
In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby
Paris
who was born in Paris
Washington
moved to Washington
computer programming
 be became very interested in computer programming
Tuft University
graduating from Tuft University
Yes
 his capable CEO, Meg Whitman
CEO
CEO, Meg Whitman
connections
eBay sells connections
In the late 1990s
the great. com crashes of the late 1990s
Yes
abay has gone from strength to strength
One of the ten
 It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet 
Yes
eBay gets a percentage
sixteen million
sixteen million items listed on eBay
1988
 graduating from Tuft University in 1988