Summary
Meg Whitman profiles the life and career of the woman who turned the revolutionary online auction company eBay into the powerful force it is today.
Ranked by many magazines as one of the most powerful women in business, Meg Whitman is decidedly down to earth. As CEO of eBay, the highly successful online auction company, Whitman worked from a cubicle and often took commercial flights to her many business meetings. Having established herself as a powerful brand-marketing force at companies such as Procter and Gamble, Hasbro, and FTD, Whitman joined eBay in 1998 and saw it through the dot.com crash, when many other online businesses rose, fell, or never took off. Today, eBay has millions of users around the world. Much of that success is due to Whitman's vision of eBay as a true community that has value for users, employees, and shareholders alike.