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TechCrunch has a late night posting about Meg Whitman stepping down as the long time CEO of eBay.

People have been giving her a hard time of late about how she should step down for the sake of the company and investors, and noting a change of guard being needed with Amazon doing so well, and Google breathing down their necks with Google Checkout.

I have been a been fan of hers and thought that ultimately she has done a fantastic job with the company with only a couple exceptions.  Two things that have bugged me about eBay as far as misteps is the price they paid for Skype, and their uber annoying tv ads they started showing the past couple years.

Meg still serves on the boards of P&G and Dream Works Animation.  Maybe with increased free time she will do some more advisor and board work.., besides relaxing of course.

Between being an eBay fan, and of course P&G, and Megs load of free time now, I will toss her on the list of people I would like to spend an afternoon with.  Tops on the list questionwise would what it was like when she left her nice job at Hasbro to move to a small tech startup with just 29 people.

I have had an infactuation with the CPG market over the past few years.  The masterminds behind all of the gigantic consumer brands greatly intrigue me and I hope to be working with them soon with some business solutions I have in mind.

I am starting a series of posts around people I would like to spend the afternoon with, kind of like on that show Iconoclasts on the Sundance channel.

Doing some latenight reading of the Advertising Age print publication and there is a writeup about P&G and their Venus product line and how it isnt living up to standards.  Of course there is the mention of Lafley, their Chief.  All I have read on him and when he is mentioned in articles paints a good picture and he on the list.