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March 28, 2012, San Jose: It seems like eons ago that eBay (No. 228) first came on the scene as a quirky online marketplace where anyone could sell anything. Now a multinational giant, the company is benefiting from its online payment business PayPal, which claims 110 million users around the world. Though Paypal lost its president Scott Thompson to Yahoo earlier this year, its 29% increase in payment volume helped drive eBay's overall revenues, which climbed 27% in 2011, sending the company up 41 slots on the Fortune 500.

Left to right: Thomas J. Tierney, founder and chairman, the Bridgespan Group; Bill Ford Jr., executive chairman, Ford Motor; Fred D. Anderson, managing director, Elevation Partners; Dawn G. Lepore, former CEO and chairman, Drugstore.com; David M. Moffett, former CEO, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac); John J. Donahoe, president and CEO, eBay (seated); Scott D. Cook, founder and chairman, Intuit; Edward W. Barnholt, former president and CEO, Agilent Technologies; Pierre M. Omidyar, founder and chairman, eBay; Marc L. Andreessen, co-founder and general partner, Andreessen Horowitz; Katie Mitic, director of platform marketing, Facebook; Richard T. Schlosberg III, former president and CEO, David and Lucile Packard Foundation


Photographs by floto warner; produced by Alix colow; reporting by Colleen Leahey @FortuneMagazine - Last updated May 08 2012: 12:25 PM ET
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