elgato
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:19 pm Post subject: Zaarly Names Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman to Its Board |
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HP CEO and former head of eBay Meg Whitman has joined the Zaarly board of directors. Zaarly is like the wanted section of Craigslist and calls itself the world's "first proximity based, real-time buyer powered online market," enabling people to connect locally and "fulfill unmet buyer demand" with a mobile application.
Buyers make an offer for an immediate need and sellers cash in on an infinite marketplace for goods and services they never knew were for sale, Zaarly explains, using the tagline, "What You Want, When You Want It."
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y11/m10/i26/s03 |
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elgato
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:10 am Post subject: Re: Zaarly Names Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman to Its Board |
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Related:
"Could Meg Whitman make Zaarly into eBay.2"
We TameBay editors have often talked about ex-eBay execs. What happens once they leave eBay, how long do we continue to blog about them and quite frankly will anyone care? Well in this case it might be worth noting – Meg Whitman (now CEO of HP) has just joined the board of directors of Zaarly.
No one has heard of Zaarly (at least not that I’m aware of), so why does this matter? Well Zaarly aim to build a marketplace enabling people to ask for anything from people nearby. They currently have a few dozen employees- That sounds very much like an up and coming marketplace business that Meg joined once before. That company was called eBay and they too only had a dew dozen employees when Meg joined them. Meg went on to oversee the growth of eBay to the marketplace it is today, so the question is could she do it again?
http://tamebay.com/2011/10/could-meg-whitman-make-zaarly-into-ebay-2.html |
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