Comments on: Web 2.0 Summit: Meg Whitman, eBay CEO http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071018/web-20-summit-meg-whitman-ebay-ceo/ by John Paczkowski Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim O'Reilly http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071018/web-20-summit-meg-whitman-ebay-ceo/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Tim O'Reilly Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:44:35 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071018/web-20-summit-meg-whitman-ebay-ceo/#comment-681 John, were you at the same talk as everyone else? My opening question to Meg was about the slowing of their core auction business as reported in yesterday's earnings call. I also zinged Meg on the growth in GMV being driven by currency fluctuations. As to the questions about paypal as a web service and next gen internet operating system play -- well, this is a technology conference, not an analyst call. I think you guys will be asking that question a year or two from now when eBay's failure to seize that opportunity (or their rising to the bait) has material impact on their finances. This is way more important than yesterday's earnings call. John, were you at the same talk as everyone else? My opening question to Meg was about the slowing of their core auction business as reported in yesterday’s earnings call. I also zinged Meg on the growth in GMV being driven by currency fluctuations.

As to the questions about paypal as a web service and next gen internet operating system play — well, this is a technology conference, not an analyst call. I think you guys will be asking that question a year or two from now when eBay’s failure to seize that opportunity (or their rising to the bait) has material impact on their finances.

This is way more important than yesterday’s earnings call.

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