steve chen. >> and chad hurley, the three guys-- . >> rose: if you had to describe the one quality you all shared, what would it be? >> let's assume intelligence is given. >> we all knew we wanted to start companies. so we came to entrepreneurship from completely different points in our lives. but i think all of us were either starting this company and peter and elon and i were starting this company. and everyone else knew that this was basically their last job. they were going to do their own thing next. and this was training grounds. >> rose: yes. so i will just do this and then i will do my own thing. and then i'll go and make a pile of money and then i will go do what i really, something else. >> i think that's what you think then. but when you wake up after the pile of money part, you kind of go the only thing i want to do is more of this. >> rose: exactly. but see that's is such an interesting process. you sell it to ebay, and it is very successful acquisition for ebay. and most of you left there was like boom, explosion out there of. >> uh-huh. >> rose: was the drive at that tim

steve chen. and chet hurley, the three guys. >> rose: if you had to describe the one quality you all shared, what would it be? let's assume intelligence is given. >> um -- we all knew we wanted to start companies. we came to entrepreneurship from different parts in our lives but i think all of us were either starting this company and peter and elon and i were starting this company and everyone else knew that this was basically their last job. they were going to do their own thing next and this was training ground. the. >> rose: i'll just do this and then i'll do my own thing and i'll make money and do something else. >> i think that's what you think then but when you wake up after the pilot money part you kind of go "the only thing i want to do is more of this." >> rose: exactly! that's such an interesting process. paypal created you guys, sell it to ebay and it's a very successful acquisition for ebay and most of you left. there was like a, boom, explosion out of there. >> uh-huh. >> rose: was t