If Meg Whitman validates media reports that she is exiting the CEO post at eBay, she will depart with the glow of having finished a masterful job of transforming an obscure San Jose, Calif.-based auction site into an archetypal business model with yearly global sales of nearly $6 billion. "Think about what eBay was," said Greg Sterling, principal analyst with Sterling Market Intelligence. "It was like an online garage sale when it started. Now, it's one of the true Internet powerhouses."
January 22nd 2008