MarketFoolery: 09.30.2014
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🗓️ 30 September 2014
⏱️ 22 minutes
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On today’s show the guys discuss eBay’s breakup with PayPal, Mark Fields’ tough week at Ford, and what the future holds for GoPro.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, September 30th. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Mark Wreath and joining me in studio from Motley Fool 1, |
| 0:07.5 | Jason Moser. Jason might as well be called Moser Foolery. |
| 0:10.8 | Oh, we love having you here. Thank you very much. It's always a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:14.8 | Uh-huh. We've got plenty to talk about today including GoPro and Ford, but we begin with eBay. |
| 0:21.8 | Now after months of eBay claiming that PayPal and its legacy business are better together, |
| 0:26.7 | early this morning they announced, no, not really. |
| 0:30.0 | We decided otherwise. |
| 0:31.7 | What the heck, man? What's with this turnaround? |
| 0:33.6 | Well, I mean, so, you know, Carl icon was really trying to help sort of spearhead this movement |
| 0:38.9 | for a while. And I mean, we've talked a lot about this here at Fool HQ for a number of years now. |
| 0:43.9 | I mean, looking at eBay, which has grown into a very robust e-commerce business. |
| 0:47.7 | Paypal has been a wonderful addition to that company. |
| 0:51.1 | It's a very smart acquisition at the time. |
| 0:53.0 | And I think that, you know, it may have been the case before that they were stronger together |
| 0:58.2 | because I think that it certainly helped sort of create that sort of flywheel effect so to speak of more purchases on |
| 1:04.6 | eBay using PayPal more which brought it back to eBay and it just kind of |
| 1:08.2 | continued there. But I mean I think we're at the point now in e-commerce where PayPal I think can benefit more |
| 1:16.2 | being out on its own as sort of a pure play where they devote all of their financial resources |
| 1:20.5 | and strategy to that particular concept. |
| 1:23.6 | And I mean, if you look at some of the numbers that we see in e-commerce today, |
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