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Re:Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month by wikibob on Monday January 20, 2020 @11:22PM (#22104285)
Yep.

eBay started as a website to sell Pez dispensers for the founders girlfriend.

https://time.com/4013672/ebay-founded-story/

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Re:Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month by delouvois on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:19AM (#22105179)
Yeah. That really was some PR story, completely fake. Omidiyar admitted it later on. I think the first thing to ever be listed on eBay was a broken laser pointer.
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Re:Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month by wikibob on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:00PM (#22123818)
How interesting! Thanks for posting, I had no idea and bought it even though I've been aware of other similar sorts of submarine PR stories.

Do you have a link to the debunking?

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Re:Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month by delouvois on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:26AM (#22189578)
Sorry I don't often go on HN. I believe this was in an interview of Pierre Omidyar, although it may unfortunately be in French. He has not done much of these, so I think I may be able find it, I'll check.
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Re:Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month by delouvois on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:30AM (#22189599)
https://www.achievement.org/achiever/pierre-omidyar/

This is it, a link to the video and the transcript, just type laser on the and you'll find it !

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