Comments on: Questions for Sam Morgan

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:18:43 +0000

Did you ever get to that infamous point of “never, never, never give up”?

Did you ever wish you were in the U.S. with all that VC money and those high valuations? :)

If you could do it all again, how would you do it?

By: nikki maynard

nikki maynard — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:20:45 +0000

hey i am doing research on you for my homework.
i need to know how much did you invest initially in trade me and how much did you sell it for? please write back as soon as you can. this goes towards my NCEA level 1 certificate
thankyou

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:53:38 +0000

Why do you choose not to create a software conduit to trademe so that business can effectively control their trademe auctions? As this considerably reduces possible revenue for you and us

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:17:31 +0000

Nowhere near as serious a question as the previous two, but I’d love to know if Sam ever read/reads the message boards on Trade Me :)

By: Glen Barnes

Glen Barnes — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:09:03 +0000

“One of the main reasons you were successful is that you didn’t have to limit the functionality of your service to protect current revenues (as opposed to Trade and Exchange which you quote as being the inspiration for Trade Me.) Do you see the same thing happening to Trade Me? If so will you react quickly enough or sacrifice short term revenue to protect your leadership position?”

The line of thinking here is that Trade Me is quite protective of its data and a closed system. If a competitor comes along that is more open and starts gaining market share will Trade Me react quickly enough or think they are not vulnerable?

By: David Jones

David Jones — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:49:53 +0000

My question(s) to Sam are:

“At what point do you think TradeMe grew from early adoption to ‘mainstream’ New Zealand? What was the most contributing factor which pushed it through this hoop?”