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For the third year in a row, eBay Foundation brought together our strategic grantee partners for an interactive day of connection, learning, and collaboration at our San Francisco offices. These organizations are driving meaningful change by expanding access to entrepreneurship across the U.S. and in communities around the world. We’re proud to stand alongside this growing network of dedicated leaders breaking down barriers to entrepreneurship and ensuring every entrepreneur has the opportunity to thrive.

We’re proud to recognize the four recipients of the eBay and HSI Battle of the Brains scholarship — Chelsy Tinacba, Erick Castillo, Juan Carlos Martinez, and Sebastian Rendon Larrea. 🥳 These talented students from Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) each received a $5,000 scholarship to advance their education. Congratulations to these remarkable scholars!

eBay CEO Jamie Iannone shared with SEMAFOR how he’s turning our marketplace into an investor collectible by reimagining what a global marketplace can be, powered by AI, built on trust, and inspired by our most passionate communities. Here’s how we’re creating new growth and opportunity: 🎯 Championing enthusiasts — from luxury collectors to sneakerheads and tech refurbishers. 🤖 Simplifying with AI — making listing, selling, and discovery easier than ever. 💬 Co-creating with our community — turning customer insights into innovation at every step. Together with our community, we’re building a marketplace that’s more connected, trusted, and dynamic than ever.

  Today marks an exciting milestone — the close of eBay’s acquisition of Tise.   When we first invested in Tise, I met a team and a platform that were redefining the consumer-to-consumer (C2C) experience — making resale fun, easy, and inspiring. That mission feels even more powerful today, as we officially join forces.   Together, we will strengthen eBay’s global C2C expertise, deepen our connection with Gen Z enthusiasts, and unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth.   I want to thank the incredible teams across eBay and Tise whose dedication and collaboration brought us to this moment. To the talented Tise team — welcome to eBay! I’m excited about what we will achieve together as we shape the future of C2C commerce.  

AI is reshaping the economy and eBay is all-in. Today we launched a new program with OpenAI in the UK - #eBayAIActivate. Designed to put world-class AI tools into the hands of 10,000 small British businesses by the end of this year. Together with access to OpenAI’s enterprise tooling, we’ll be providing ongoing hands-on training in the use of AI agents, and our team of AI engineers will be continuously rolling new custom #agents based on feedback from our UK seller community. With the tectonic shift that AI is bringing about in virtually every industry, we have a generational opportunity to reimagine how people buy and sell at eBay right now, leveraging our three decades of marketplace data. With eBay AI Activate, I’m proud we’re extending that vision to small businesses, ensuring they have the same level of access to state-of-the-art tools and training, as the biggest retailers have, in order to compete, innovate and grow in the AI era. This program is pioneering. While there's been a lot of discussion of AI for employee productivity, with this program we’re enabling our entrepreneur community in the UK to leverage AI in everything they do, not only on eBay but off eBay as well! AI for small businesses isn’t just hype - it’s for solving real business challenges: saving time, creating smarter workflows, engaging customers more effectively and scaling with confidence. https://lnkd.in/eGs2GYDV #AIActivate #eBayforBusiness #Entrepreneurship #ukAllIn #chatgpt

Giving back has always been at the heart of eBay. 💙 Through eBay for Charity, our community, including incredible sellers like Eric Rader, has raised incredible amounts for organizations around the world. Together, we’re turning commerce into a force for good. https://bit.ly/3PMDaMU

Today is a special day for eBay, as we announced that eBay has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tise, a consumer-to-consumer (C2C) social marketplace headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The acquisition will strengthen eBay’s global proposition in C2C, building on the significant momentum we’ve made in elevating the customer experience. Tise’s social-first, highly intuitive platform will open the door to a vibrant community of Gen Z and Millennial enthusiasts. And together, we will accelerate Tise’s strategy, unlocking new opportunities for innovation. I am confident that Tise’s on-trend inventory, loyal community, and social-first approach, will enrich eBay’s C2C offerings, allowing us to more deeply connect with the next generation of enthusiasts. I look forward to welcoming the Tise team to eBay upon the close of the transaction, which we expect to occur by the end of the fourth quarter of 2025. It's an exciting day for eBay and Tise but we’re just getting started! Read more: https://lnkd.in/eFX5uMfw Forward-Looking Statements This post contains forward-looking statements relating to eBay’s intention to acquire Tise and the potential benefits of this transaction. Such forward-looking statements reflect eBay's current expectations or beliefs concerning future events and actual events may differ materially from current expectations. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement, except as required by law.