John Donahoe

President and CEO
eBay

As president and CEO of eBay Inc. since March 2008, Donahoe has global responsibility for growing the company's e-commerce and payments businesses, which include eBay Marketplaces and PayPal. Donahoe joined eBay in February 2005 as president of eBay Marketplaces, overseeing a number of strategic acquisitions including Shopping.com and StubHub. Prior to eBay, he spent more than 20 years at Bain & Company, a worldwide consulting firm based in Boston. Donahoe received a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, obviating the need to purchase any diplomas online.

Posts With John Donahoe

Online Commerce Trend: More Spending, Smaller Purchases

in Commerce on January 20 at 12:22 pm PT

The average checkout size is shrinking, even though more people spent more money online. Why? Here are three reasons.
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eBay’s John Donahoe Literally Starts Hammering Out the Plan for Mobile Payments

in Commerce on January 19 at 6:00 am PT

In an interview, eBay’s CEO provides a few details about the company’s mobile payments trial with Home Depot, and how it would expand from five to 51 stores across the country over the next week.
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eBay Predicts Mobile Commerce Will Grow 60 Percent in 2012

in Commerce on January 12 at 11:24 am PT

EBay’s John Donahoe has drawn his mobile prediction line in the sand for 2012, and it is pretty jaw-dropping.
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PayPal’s First Mobile Payments Pilot Is With Big-Box Retailer Home Depot

in Commerce on January 6 at 1:50 pm PT

Some good news for eBay, following the surprising announcement this week that PayPal was losing its top executive to Yahoo.
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CEO John Donahoe Talks About What’s Next for eBay’s PayPal, After Scott Thompson’s Surprise Exit to Yahoo

in Commerce on January 4 at 10:08 pm PT

Now that Yahoo has nabbed PayPal President Scott Thompson from its crosstown Internet peer, there will be some shuffling to do in order to fill the gap he leaves behind at eBay.
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CEO John Donahoe Expresses “Shock” Over eBay Executive’s Departure to Yahoo (Internal Memo)

in Commerce on January 4 at 7:33 am PT

This morning, we got our hands on the internal memo that eBay’s CEO John Donahoe sent out to the troops, following the news that PayPal’s Scott Thompson will leave to become Yahoo’s CEO. The online commerce giant was, um, surprised.
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Confirmed: Yahoo Names PayPal Head Scott Thompson as New CEO

in News on January 4 at 6:08 am PT

Like I said.
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Exclusive: Yahoo Poised to Name CEO — With eBay’s PayPal Prez as Top Choice

in News on January 3 at 11:29 pm PT

Has Yahoo found its new Prince Charming in PayPal President Scott Thompson?
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Viral Video: An Interview With Andreessen Horowitz’s Jeff Jordan

in News on November 3, 2011 at 5:35 am PT

Jeff Jordan: Unplugged.
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eBay Says Holiday Outlook for Mobile Commerce Very Jolly

in Commerce on October 19, 2011 at 5:11 pm PT

This holiday season could be one of the biggest mobile shopping events ever with more people turning to their smartphones or tablets to buy gifts than ever before. “I think you’ll see a mobile commerce Christmas,” said eBay’s CEO John Donahoe.
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eBay’s Not Just a Retailer Anymore, It’s a Tech Company

in Commerce, October 12, 2011 at 9:07 am PT

eBay Adds Facebook Exec Katie Mitic to Board

eBay Appoints Devin Wenig as New President of Marketplaces

eBay Commercials Coming to Let You Know “It’s Not Your Mother’s eBay Anymore”

in Commerce, July 20, 2011 at 5:19 pm PT

France Brings in Tout Le Web Before the G8 Summit

in News, May 23, 2011 at 3:03 pm PT

New Company Will Emerge in Wake of eBay’s Acquisition of GSI Commerce

in Commerce, March 28, 2011 at 11:29 am PT

Stock Trades Near 52-week High on Message That It's an All "New eBay"

in Commerce, February 10, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT

Live at eBay's Analyst Day–Is the Company Future-Proofed?

in Commerce, February 10, 2011 at 8:07 am PT

EBay's Analyst Day Tomorrow Could Be PayPal Lovefest

in Commerce, February 9, 2011 at 10:32 pm PT

Super VC Andreessen and eBay's John Donahoe on Mobile Payments, Love Notes in the Cloud and More!

in News, October 29, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

EBay's Marketplace Chief Leaves in Midst of Revamp

in News, September 22, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

PayPal Is Confident About China

in News, September 10, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Investors on eBay Earnings: Decent Seller. Would Buy From Again. B+++

in News, July 21, 2010 at 2:00 pm PT

Full D8 Video: EBay CEO John Donahoe

in D8, July 15, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

EBay CEO John Donahoe at D8: The Full, Uncut Video

in D8, July 15, 2010 at 7:54 am PT