| > I don't doubt that running eBay is more complex than it appears, but it's just a web site to buy and sell goods. That's an army of people! It's interesting that I had the opposite reaction. eBay is a _worldwide_, multi-billion dollar institution. They've been around for about 28 years (~1995) - since the start of it all... I really thought the number of employees would be higher. I turned to Wikipedia for some numbers (apple to oranges comparison, I know... but I was curious). Walmart : 2,300,000 : Jan 2022
Amazon : 1,684,853 : Nov 2023
Target : 440,000 : ??? 2023
Microsoft : 238,000 : ??? 2023
Alphabet : 181,798 : Jun 2023
Best Buy : 90,000 : Jan 2023
B&N : 24,000 : ??? 2019
eBay : 11,600 : Dec 2022
(People really have the audacity to compare eBay to Amazon)I didn't realize that eBay was so small. Now they lost 1k. I haven't visited eBay in eons but a 9% reduction in their workforce from such an already low number is devastating (to me). Are we looking at the end of eBay? They may have become staid... old in their thinking. I constantly see Amazon, for example, open up new territories in other areas. They went from eBooks to general ecommerce to servers to hardware to voice AI to home gadgets. There seems to be nothing this company won't consider. They think like a startup. eBay may be another Xerox (or Mozilla...) unless they can get their management team thinking outside their comfort zone. |