Meg Whitman
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"Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman" is an American business executive. She is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard. A native of Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. Whitman served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company where she was vice president of strategic planning throughout the 1980s. In the 1990s, she served as an executive for DreamWorks, Procter & Gamble, and Hasbro. Whitman served as president and chief executive officer of eBay from 1998 to 2008. During her 10 years with the company, she oversaw its expansion from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue. In 2014, Whitman was named 20th in Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

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What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

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.

A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.

  Someone who needs cash might dig up a DVD player in the closet and sell it to someone else wanting to save money by buying a used item.

We saw very strong growth across every part of our business, ... It's wonderful to see such strength in our two largest marketplaces, the U.S. and Germany.

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician, ... We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.

It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet, ... In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.