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How a tech giant broke the union and the spirit at Syracuse’s funkiest workplace
Syracuse's TCGplayer was a community of the nerdy people who might otherwise be sitting alone at lunch. Then eBay moved in.
“… We are unable to find a viable way to reach breakeven in Syracuse,” eBay’s CEO Rob Bigler wrote in an email issued at 8:51 a.m. May 22. In the email, Bigler, who was brought in from eBay Canada to run TCGplayer in 2023, said they’d done everything to figure out how to make Syracuse profitable but just couldn’t find a solution. “Though I am no longer involved with TCGplayer, when I founded the company, it was important to me to cultivate a workplace culture where employees could pursue their personal passions — like my own for gaming — and feel valued,” Hampson said.
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