eBay CEO steps down
What's up with all these CEOs leaving/stepping down? Don't know much about Devin, how was he? https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/devin-wenig-steps-down-as-ebay-ceo/
He was an insipid, uninspiring leader. Distant from the product and customers, and made huge senior hiring (and not firing) mistakes (eg the Apple lot) that he covered up and didn’t take responsibility for.
I didn’t agree with his direction and based on company’s lack of growth he was failing as a leader. I’m surprised he didn’t leave sooner so Ebay could go another route.
And what route would that be?
Kick all rest and vest crowd, there are a lot of good developers in Ebay, but lackadaisical management, and technical leaders are sinking the ship. They need to be removed and set some aggressive goals - for now just copy what other ecommerce shops are doing.
He’s not bad. Check his Twitter
He got Mohan’ed
Is Mohan still around? Shocking!
What does it mean?
Lol what does that mean?
That would be good for ebay!!
Winter is coming
His focus was primarily on creating good company culture. I think he hoped that would in turn result in good product and business results. The problem is, eBay is old and has tons of tech debt and a brand that is tightly associated with "auction" and "garage sale" by buyers.
He was a bad leader. He was just not interested in the job, the moment the heat was turned on, he ran away - without a fight! He should have taken ebay up a few notch, e-commerce is the future and he didn't do much to excite the employees and did absolutely nothing to motivate people to take pride in their work and deliver products that was needed by the marketplace. The ship was listless. Lets hope they get some guy from Amazon who can turn things around.
But he didn’t create good culture. Not for those of us on the frontline.
As a CEO, he did commit in March end to make decisions on split in September. He sold 10 million in stock (public info) in March, went for a sabbatical, came back and quit. I don’t see any leadership or any cultural values.
He was neither good nor bad, he was ‘c’est terribluh’