He says that across all products at eBay now, product managers and engineers are instructed to "think mobile first".
Q: If you were starting out at eBay now in 2008 instead of 1998, what would you do differently?
And it's the latter option, which is available at a significant discount, that you can get now on eBay.
Most dealers are now on eBay.
Whitman was counseled in the matter, the former eBay employees said, by the company's human resources lawyers and by Henry Gomez, then president of the Skype unit at eBay and now a senior adviser to Ms. Whitman's campaign.Ms.
Geoff Donaker, former director of business development at eBay, is now COO at Yelp.
Dixon, who has been working at eBay until now, helped lead the commerce company's personalization efforts and Hunch integration for the past year in New York.
Jeff Housenbold, who led the Internet and search marketing team at eBay, is now president and CEO of Shutterfly (NASDAQ SFLYY).
Brent Bellm, head of PayPal (Europe) and early strategy planning executive at eBay, is now COO of HomeAway, which has since gone public.
But both are behind eBay, now at 7.2percentt.
"You are always balancing how much do you really say in the advisory," said Howard Schmidt, a network security specialist who has worked for Microsoft, was a cybersecurity czar in the Bush administration and now is the chief information officer at eBay.
