Is Meg Whitman preparing to leave the top spot of the highly successful auction site?
People close to the situation think that the corporate leader, mentor, and self-made billionaire is now ready to open eBay’s doors to some fresh new ideas. With Web mega-auction site eBay about to announce quarterly earnings tomorrow, rumors are afoot that the company’s long-time CEO, Meg Whitman, will soon retire from the job she assumed back in 1998, when the then-start-up employed merely 29 people and operated only in the US. At the time, eBay served as an e-commerce center only for collectible items, according to Whitman. In fact, Beanie Babies-branded stuffed animals were among the early eBay’s hottest sellers. This was a fact that we rarely shared with investors,” Whitman joked, during a 2006 talk at Stanford University Business School, which is now viewable, appropriately enough, by following a video link posted at the bottom of a press release on Stanford’s Web site. “Over the next ten years, though, Whitman steered eBay through choppy and highly competitive waters while it mov
