Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman
Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitmanis an American business executive. Whitman is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as well as the Chairwoman of HP Inc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth4 August 1956
CityCold Spring Harbor, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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We want to evolve with you, ... Many of you thinking about giving up being on eBay, and why not?
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You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.
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You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.
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I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
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You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.
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We feel we are at just the beginning of what could be an enormous business for us,
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We are very pleased with our second-quarter results. Everyday the eBay marketplace becomes indispensable to more people and small businesses around the world.
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While we do not have liability, we do have a responsibility to our community of users with respect to fraud prevention,
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What we have seen is that our army of entrepreneurs, our users, bring to market what consumers want, and they are far more adaptive and prescient that any company can be,
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We've always sought to remove friction from e-commerce,
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We're continuing to see sustained growth across our U.S. and international markets, deeper penetration into many vertical categories and expanded adoption of our fixed-price trading formats,
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We want to help sellers grow even if that means off the marketplace -- beginning an exciting new chapter for you and your business, and for us as well.
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We take every competitor very seriously, but we really do have a tremendous position in the marketplace. We are the experts at running marketplaces. We've been at this now for 10 years.
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We are extremely pleased that Bill is joining eBay's board, ... He leads one of the best-known and most respected global brands, and his management expertise will be a welcome addition to an unparalleled board of directors.