Slow Industry Meet the Ambassador of eSpeed. In an interview with Fast Company, he shared his thoughts on what it takes to make fast advances over pre-Web ways of doing business. The sales cycle used to take days, even weeks. But with our online-auction technologies, sales negotiations are now completed within hours. And we answer customer inquiries more quickly than before, because what used to be done via fax or mail can now be done via email.
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