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Post: #1 Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:48 am |
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eBay - Going, Going, Gone: Meg Whitman Leaves
Meg Whitman, the long-serving C.E.O. of eBay, stepped down this week.
It is the end of an era for eBay, and something of a nostalgic moment for me. I wrote a history of eBay a few years ago, The Perfect Store: Inside eBay, and Ms. Whitman was one of its heroes: the brash Harvard M.B.A. who took eBay from a fledgling website of uncertain prospects to the $40 billion company it is today.
It’s hard to imagine just how small and chaotic eBay was when Ms. Whitman took over 10 years ago. Pierre Omidyar, the company’s visionary and decidedly uncorporate founder, was still running things in distinctly laid-back fashion. [Read Full Article] |
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Post: #2 Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:10 pm |
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The author of that article certainly looks at eBay through rose-tinted spectacles. Many people would say eBay is pretty chaotic today, particularly in how search results are delivered and what jokingly passes for customer service. He must be one of the few people who is sad at Ms Whitman leaving. Elsewhere there seems to be considerable rejoicing |
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