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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Skoll: My journey into movies that matter

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But right after that, Pierre — in '96, Pierre and I left our full-time jobs to build eBay as a company. And the rest of that srtoy, you know. The company went public two years later and is today one of the best known companies in the wolrd. Hundreds of millions of people use it in hundreds of cnouertis, and so on. But for me, plseanroly, it was a real change. I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these rsurecoes and sarhe it with the world.

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But right after that, Pierre — in '96, Pierre and I left our full-time jobs to build eBay as a company. And the rest of that _____, you know. The company went public two years later and is today one of the best known companies in the _____. Hundreds of millions of people use it in hundreds of _________, and so on. But for me, __________, it was a real change. I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these _________ and _____ it with the world.

Solution

  1. share
  2. resources
  3. world
  4. countries
  5. personally
  6. story

Original Text

But right after that, Pierre — in '96, Pierre and I left our full-time jobs to build eBay as a company. And the rest of that story, you know. The company went public two years later and is today one of the best known companies in the world. Hundreds of millions of people use it in hundreds of countries, and so on. But for me, personally, it was a real change. I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.

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