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Meg Whitman

Disciplines:
technology
retail/consumer goods
corporate leadership
e-commerce

Summary

American business executive who served as CEO of eBay from 1998 to 2008, growing it from 30 employees to 15,000, and later as CEO of Hewlett-Packard.

Core Contribution

Scaled eBay from a tiny online auction site to a global e-commerce platform during its highest-growth years — building the payments infrastructure (PayPal acquisition), international expansion, and seller trust systems that made eBay a category definer.

Historical Influences

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Intellectual Lineage

American Consumer Business TraditionSilicon Valley Executive Leadership

Contemporaries & Peers

Jeff Bezos Pierre Omidyar Jerry Yang Steve Case

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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