Meg+Whitman


 * Meg Whitman **

Meg Whitman was born in Long Island, NY where she lived with her Parents, sister, and brother. Meg got a degree in economics from Princeton University and then went and got her masters in business administration at Harvard's school of business. In her career she has helped many company's like Hasbro and Disney, Mr. potato head, brain& company, and many more where she worked to spark childrens imagination and to encourage them to live life to the fullest. In 1998 she started up a company in silicon valley. The company only had 30 employees and just a little of $4 million in revenue.Some people thought that the company wouldn't work out, but Meg new it would and that this was the company for her. In just 10 years the company grew to 15,000 employees, around $8 billion in revenue and is still growing to this day. This company is called EBay. Today Meg lives in California with her husband where she likes to go hiking, skiing, and horseback riding. She loves the outdoors and thinks that it is important to protoect the environment because it is important to the state and the future.