eBay CEO Jamie Iannone’s new playbook embraces AI tools while blocking AI buyers

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    "title": "eBay CEO Jamie Iannone’s new playbook embraces AI tools while blocking AI buyers",
    "author": "Diane Brady",
    "excerpt": "Good morning. For any CEO, one of the most consequential decisions you can make right now is which parts of the AI wave to leverage and which to exclude. So I was particularly interested to talk to eBay’s CEO Jamie Iannone recently. Under his leadership, eBay has recently banned autonomous AI shopping agents from its marketplace, while encouraging sellers to use its own AI tool to create compelling listings. The battle: how to use AI to amplify commissions and the customer experience while addressing the risks it presents to both. Iannone spoke to me from a trading‑card convention in Chicago, just as the company had closed a $50 million chapter from its past and launched a $1.4 billion bet on its future . The former resolves litigation involving former CEO Devin Wenig in which former employees targeted a couple with threats and bizarre deliveries in 2019 because their newsletter was critical of the site. The latter finalizes the acquisition of Depop, a fashion resale site popular with Millennials and Gen Z. For Iannone, who became CEO of eBay in 2020, the goal now is to double down on “non-new-in-season,” a term for the used and refurbished items that don’t compete head-on with e-commerce giants like Walmart and Amazon . There’s strong evidence his approach is working: eBay (No. 353 on the Fortune 500) yesterday reported that revenue rose 15% in the second quarter to $3.1...",
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