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“a monkey could drive this train”
Margaret “Meg” Whitman comment on eBay,
while she was eBay CEO and President.
Margaret Cushing “Meg” Whitman
Born August 4 1956
- “President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from March 1998 to March 2008.”
Meg and the Machine
Adam Lashinsky, August 11 2003
- “Our destiny is completely in our hands”
- “”This company is truly built by the community of users.” It’s a little like Frank Perdue crediting his chickens.”
- “the suspicion that eBay runs itself”
- “A monkey could drive this train”
- “Many of us say, ‘Man, we’ve got something special. Don’t screw it up.’
- “Whitman also closely eyes eBay’s “take rate,” the ratio of revenues to the value of goods traded on the site (the higher the better).”
- “”Our best decisions have been the ones where we’ve seen where the community was going,” says PayPal chief Matt Bannick. “Some of our biggest mistakes occurred when we put on our consultant’s hats and got in a room and made decisions.” ”
Meg Whitman, eBay
BusinessWeek, September 29 2003
- “Says Whitman, a big eBay seller herself: “We simply try to make it easy and transparent, lay out a few rules, and get the heck out of the way.”"
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