Company · Retail · Technology · founded 1995
eBay
E-commerce company founded by Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb in 1995, letting users buy and sell through auctions and fixed-price listings. Meg Whitman was CEO from March 1998 to January 2008.
Of the 3 people here linked to eBay, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. 2 of them also appear at Hewlett-Packard. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
3 people at eBay
Executive Past
Role
CEO, 1998–2008
Source
· high confidence. The eBay page gives March 1998 to January 2008; the Whitman page says she resigned as CEO in November 2007 in one passage and stayed as a board member and adviser until late 2008.
Technology 2 / 3
Meg Whitman
Former CEO, eBay
affluent · elite · graduate degree
Board Past
Role
Independent director, 2016–2026
Source
· medium confidence. Appointment announced June 21, 2016. A search result summarizing eBay's 2026 proxy statement (SEC accession 0001552781-26-000285) says he would not stand for re-election at the June 17, 2026 annual meeting. The filing itself could not be opened here because sec.gov blocks automated fetches, so the 2026 end year is medium confidence.
Technology · Software · Transportation & Logistics 3 / 0
Logan Green
Co-founder and former CEO of Lyft
comfortable · some · college degree
Board Past
Role
Board member, 2008–2014
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia says he joined the eBay board in 2008, served six years and resigned in October 2014.
Venture Capital · Software 4 / 1
Marc Andreessen
Co-creator of the Mosaic web browser; co-founder of Netscape and of the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
middle-class · some · college degree
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