Maynard Webb on fixing eBay and your career (Q&A)

Maynard Webb CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Maynard Webb is a fixer. When Webb was asked to take control of eBay's failing IT operations in 1999, the company was in full-scale crisis. The then-young, fast-growing site had become the poster child for dot-com instability as it suffered through a series of outages . CNN crews, as Webb remembers, were parked outside eBay's offices, waiting for the next headline …

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