Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman is an American business executive and former diplomat who served as CEO of eBay from 1998 to 2008, Hewlett-Packard from 2011 to 2015, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise from 2015 to 2018. She most recently served as the United States Ambassador to Kenya from August 2022 to November 2024 under President Joe Biden. She is best known for leading eBay's growth from a small startup to a multi-billion-dollar company, during which time PayPal was acquired as a subsidiary in 2002.
“As soon as it was acquired back in 2002, they basically blew out all the founders, all the founding DNA... Meg Whitman had worked at Procter and Gamble and Disney and she'd spent like eight years at Bain... They saw the founders, the founding generation at PayPal as just a problem... And then that's what created the PayPal mafia.”
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