Apr 28
What is John Donahoe’s Plan?
If you are like most eBay observers, you are anxiously awaiting the “New eBay”.
Sellers want to know how it will impact their business, investors want to know how it will grow value in their holdings and bloggers want to “guess” at what it will actually be.
We may actually have a hint, in an article from John Donahoe’s past.
In 2002 as the Managing Director of Bain & Company, John Donahoe wrote an article called The Last Legacy of the Dotcom Era (special thanks to permacrisis for finding this). In the article. Mr Doanhoe makes the following statement:
“When Bain & Co. analyzed 2,035 publicly held companies with annual revenues of $500 million or more in the United States, Canada, Britain, Fr ance, Germany, Italy, and Japan, we found that only 14 percent had achieved sustained, profitable growth for a decade. And we defined sustained as posting year-on-year real revenue and profit growth […]