“I think Scott Thompson did a great job at PayPal. I think he’s a very talented leader and I believe he can help Yahoo. I hope they get through this and he can continue to do the very challenging job he’s got of helping to turn Yahoo around. I’m Scott’s biggest fan.”
eBay CEO John Donahoe, on the troubles of his former protégé, Bloomberg, 9 May 2012
“By the end of this decade, power and influence will shift largely to those people with the best reputations and trust networks, from people with money and nominal power.”
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, on how the millions of dollars he took from eBay, not to mention his efforts to hide that fact, will make him less trustworthy in the future, Cnewmark.com, 6 April 2010
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