Opening Session


Product Camp - Opening Session (photo and notes from bgrigson)

Dan Glasgow - VP Product Management
eBay

 

15 years old
Auctionweb

 

Technology and Retail is evolving
Innovate faster, smarter to allow employees to impact the bottom line
Mobile, local, digital, social 
2010 $62 billion in sales, $2 billion through mobile apps 
2011 plan to double mobile
Milo allows cross-channel which is 5X the size of eCommerce

 

How we think
Customer at the center
Fashion, Tech, Tickets, Vehicles
Verticals have different requirements

 

Product Management
Last two years push to technical depth
3,000 people working on the site
Curriculum to emphasize training

 

Garden.ebay.com
Green Box - came out of Skunkworks to recycle boxes