Meg Whitman: Former CEO of eBay
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"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. "You say...
6 comments to date. The most recent comments:Kevin from Edgar, U.S. (October 14, 2010)
Her campaign said she is responsible for E-Bay's success. E-Bays time had come, it really didn't matter who was the head. People wanted to participate in on-line auctions no matter what. She is not responsible for it's success, but the employees are, and the nation is. It is wrong for her to take all the credit.
(Plus, we all think she is a whore, so Browns party shouldn't be condemned for admitting the obvious).
codex from san diego, ca (October 13, 2010)
If Meg was born on April 8th, she is an Aries not a Pisces. Please fix your website. I have no desire to share my state or my sunsign with her.
Unappreciated safety offical from Caliornia (September 8, 2010)
Sooner or later tearing down government will aso tear down business. Don't believe me?
Just ask any auto dealership when state workers brought thier cars back to them and said "Sorry Arnold cut my family income by two car payments". This equates to the closing of many auto dealerships and no taxes coming into the state coffers.
The state of California is a consumer too. How many businesses have closed due to your fight to cut the workers and have no buget that includes development of our communities. This equates to no jobs not consumer spending and no taxes for state coffers.
Focus on government ripoffs like the Environmentalists enfluencing our legislature. Telling every business in California that they have to retool all of their diesel powered equipment to meet new polution standards? This equates to no investment in California, no jobs no money for consumers and no tax money for state coffers.
Fact the California state government is subsidising schools for school bus retro fits at $20,000 per bus of tax payer money. Never mind the over paid environmentalist bereaucrats overseeing that program. That's a good down payment on a new bus!! Why can't schools run a buget like the rest of us? Oh yeah don't tell me they're run buy the government too.
And where is the new equipment being built? Not in the USA!!!
Where do you think everyone is going to do business? It sure won't be California. You killing us!!!
We need someone to look into the safety of Californians from our government ASAP!!!
Radar from San Diego, CA USA (July 24, 2010)
Meg Whitman is a corporate whore. Her idea of bringing jobs to California is to fire 40,000 state workers, thus making California's unemployment situation even worse. Truly ugly inside and out.
shamim from london UK (November 25, 2009)
Meg. is truely a business leader but I am doubtful how long she could go as a political leader
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She is a greedy, egotistical and annoying pig.
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Made Her Billion in the Auction Game!
The former CEO of eBay, Margaret C. (Meg) Whitman is a high profile corporate leader who has also worked at Hasbro, FTD, Walt Disney Company and Procter & Gamble. She is said to be worth over a billion dollars, and is considering a run for the governorship of California in 2010, to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Whitman was the president and CEO of eBay from March 1998 to March 2008. She ran eBay during a period of tremendous growth for the company. Today eBay is a major player in online commerce (eBay.com), payments (PayPal) and communications (Skype) around the world.
Prior to eBay, Whitman was general manager of Hasbro Inc.'s Preschool Division, responsible for global management and marketing of two of the world's best-known children's brands, Playskool and Mr. Potato Head. From 1995 to 1997, she was president and chief executive officer of Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD), the world's largest floral products company. While at FTD, she oversaw its transition from a florist-owned association to a for-profit, privately owned company.
Before FTD, Whitman was president of the Stride Rite Corporation's Stride Rite Division where she was responsible for the launch of the highly successful Munchkin baby shoe line and the repositioning of the Stride Rite brand and retail stores. Whitman spent 1989 to 1992 at the Walt Disney Company, working as senior vice president of marketing for the Disney Consumer Products Division. She also worked for eight years at Bain & Company’s San Francisco office where she was a vice president. Whitman began her career at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati where she worked in brand management from 1979 to 1981.
A donation of $30 million to her alma mater, Princeton University, resulted in the construction of the university's sixth residential college, Whitman College, which opened in Fall 2007.
Whitman supported former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in his failed 2008 presidential campaign, serving on his "National Finance Team."
Whitman is routinely described as one of the most powerful and influential women in American business. She is on the board of directors of Procter & Gamble and eBay, and is considering a run for the governorship of California in 2010.
