Ultimately, Donahoe has to describe what Ebay is if it isn't an auction site.
Dozens of high-ranking veteran Ebay employees have left since Donahoe joined the company in 2005.
Just before the year's end group members presented their vision to Whitman, Donahoe and the board.
"They're taking photos and listing in two minutes, " Mr. Donahoe says in an interview.
That disappointing performance led eBay's new CEO John Donahoe to pursue a new direction.
Mr. Donahoe said he expects the agency to prevail this time in ending Saturday delivery.
Ultimately, says Mr Donahoe, the post will have to stop delivering mail on Saturdays.
Making Ebay less consultant-minded may be hard for Bain-trained Donahoe, but he is known for diplomacy skills.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said Wednesday no workers have reported becoming ill and called the risk minimal.
"Over the course of years we've had some situations where there have been ricin scares, " Donahoe said.
Mr Donahoe said the service reduction could be carried out through a combination of employee reassignment and attrition.
Other prominent grads include General Electric head Jeffrey Immelt, eBay chief John Donahoe and former IBM boss Louis Gerstner.
And you can get through that wall like Ebay has under John Donahoe.
"Mobile continues to rewrite the commerce playbook, " eBay chief executive John Donahoe said.
Donahoe also plans to eliminate Saturday mail delivery, and lay off 120, 000 workers.
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Mr. Donahoe said the Postal Service would pay its employees and critical vendors but might skip some payments to others.
"We had a strong fourth quarter finish to an excellent year, " eBay president John Donahoe said in a statement.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said Wednesday that the agency is talking with employees at plants in Maryland, Tennessee and Washington, D.
On Wednesday evening, John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay, delivered the keynote address at the Leaders in Technology (LIT) dinner.
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The service's market research indicates that nearly 7 in 10 people support the switch as a way to reduce costs, Donahoe said.
Chief Executive John Donahoe last month also said the e-commerce heavyweight is exploring ways to integrate Bitcoin into its PayPal payments network.
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Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has called for five-day delivery and other cost-saving overhauls, but has so far failed to gain permission from Congress.
Donahoe's move to lower the fees for listing items has boosted the number of items on the site by 18%, according to Majestic Research.
In an effort to remake the company into a cheap and cheesy Amazon clone, John Donahoe destroyed thousands of small sellers and their business.
Already counting for a little more than a third of sales, CEO John Donahoe believes Paypal will exceed their marketplace segment in short order.
Mr. Donahoe has said the bill would damage smaller retailers by treating them the same way it treats large merchants that have sophisticated tax-collection capabilities.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the Postal Service's hands are tied by congressional inaction on a bill that would allow it to reduce the payments.
Last year 55% did, and eventually everybody will, says Mr Donahoe.
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