Maynard G. Webb Jr. (born 1955) is an American business person and is the [2] author of the New York Times bestseller Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship,[3] and the national bestseller Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business.[4] A long-time technology executive and angel investor,[5] Webb is a board member of Salesforce,[6]Visa,[7] and former chairman of the board of directors at Yahoo!.[8][9] Webb founded Webb Investment Network in 2010[10] and is the former CEO of LiveOps and former COO of eBay.[11]
From 1999 to 2006, Webb held various titles at eBay, including President of Technology and Chief Operating Officer.[11] During his tenure, eBay grew from $140 million in revenue to over $4.5 billion in 2005 as the employee base expanded from 250 to more than 12,000.[14]
During that time, LiveOps was named one of Forbes’ Ten Hot Start-Ups (2009),[15] expanded into the enterprise market, generated more capital than it had originally raised, and expanded its board with executives from Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, PeopleSoft, and eBay.[16]
Writing
With Carlye Adler, Webb authored a New York Times best-selling[2] book entitled Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship, which was published in January 2013.[3] The book focuses on how work models developed a century ago are out of sync today, identifies four mindsets about work, and explains how to leverage technology to change how we work.[3] Over the years, Webb has blogged about entrepreneurship and work in the Internet economy.[12] Webb's second book, Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business,[17] with a Foreword by Howard Schultz, former executive chairman and CEO of Starbucks, was published by St. Martin's Press on September 11, 2018.[18]
Investments
In 2010, he founded Webb Investment Network (WIN) for early-stage investing in ecommerce, mobile, cloud computing, and enterprise startups.[5] Startups that WIN funds have access to a network of 89 industry experts from companies such as Google, PayPal, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard.[5][10] The network was built from Webb’s business connections.[5] WIN is considered to be part of a trend of smaller, early-stage funds that are indirectly challenging the traditional venture capital model.[5]
Philanthropy
Webb and his wife Irene founded the Webb Family Foundation in 2004,[13] an organization dedicated to “promoting meritocracy through helping underdogs in society meet their full potential.”[19] Through grants, the foundation has supported disaster relief, youth mentoring, cancer research, education, and other organizations.[20]
123Webb, Maynard; Adler, Carlye (28 January 2013). Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN978-1118226155.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
12345Shah, Semil (28 January 2013). "In the Studio," Maynard Webb Pays It Forward With WIN. TechCrunch. ISBN978-1118226155.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
