{{Infobox person | name = Maynard Webb | image = Maynard G. Webb.jpg | alt = Maynard Webb | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1955}} | birth_place = | education = Bachelor's Degree, Florida Atlantic University | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = Author, ''Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship'' (2013) | title = Chairman of Yahoo!<ref>{{cite web |url=https://investor.yahoo.net/directors.cfm |title=Yahoo - Board of Directors |accessdate=2015-01-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217021510/https://investor.yahoo.net/directors.cfm |archivedate=2015-02-17 }}</ref><br>Founder of Webb Investment }} '''Maynard G. Webb Jr.''' (born 1955) is an American business person and is the <ref name="The New York Times">{{cite news|title=The New York Times Best Sellers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2013-02-17/hardcover-advice/list.html|work=Best Seller List|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=9 February 2013|first=Gregory|last=Cowles}}</ref> author of the ''New York Times'' bestseller ''Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship'',<ref name=Amazon.com>{{cite book|title=Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship|work=Book Description|isbn = 978-1118226155|last1 = Webb|first1 = Maynard|last2 = Adler|first2 = Carlye|date = 28 January 2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons }}</ref> and the national bestseller ''Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business''.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Founder-Letters-Manages-Business-ebook/dp/B079DVSV1F | title=Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business | date=11 September 2018 | publisher=St. Martin's Press }}</ref> A long-time technology executive and angel investor,<ref name="TechCrunch Sept 2012">{{cite book|last=Shah|first=Semil|title="In the Studio," Maynard Webb Pays It Forward With WIN|work=Opinion|date=28 January 2013|publisher=TechCrunch|isbn=978-1118226155}}</ref> Webb is a board member of Salesforce,<ref name=Salesforce>{{cite web|title=Maynard Webb, Chairman, LiveOps|url=http://www.salesforce.com/company/leadership/board-of-directors/#Webb|work=Board of Directors|publisher=Salesforce.com|accessdate=11 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011111831/http://www.salesforce.com/company/leadership/board-of-directors/#Webb|archive-date=11 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Visa,<ref name="VISA Board">{{cite web|title=VISA Board of Directors & Advisors|url=http://investor.visa.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/|work=Board of Directors|publisher=VISA|accessdate=4 February 2015}}</ref> and former chairman of the board of directors at Yahoo!.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/business/corner-office-maynard-webb-yahoos-chairman-even-the-best-teams-can-be-better.html|title=Maynard Webb, Yahoo's Chairman: Even the Best Teams Can Be Better|last=Bryant|first=Adam|date=2015|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-10-13|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-16/yahoo-said-to-appoint-maynard-webb-as-chairman.html | work=Bloomberg | title=Yahoo Names Webb as Chairman in Mayer's Turnaround Push}}</ref> Webb founded Webb Investment Network in 2010<ref name="WIN Team">{{cite web|title=Maynard Webb|url=http://www.winfunding.com/node/3|work=Team|publisher=Webb Investment Network|accessdate=11 October 2012|archive-date=29 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029091412/http://www.winfunding.com/node/3|url-status=dead}}</ref> and is the former CEO of LiveOps and former COO of eBay.<ref name="NYT DealBook 2/12">{{cite news|last=De La Merced|first=Michael J.|title=Yahoo Board Shaken Up in a Push for Revival|url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/yahoo-to-name-2-new-directors-as-4-others-to-stand-down/|accessdate=11 October 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=7 February 2012}}</ref>

==Education and career== Webb received his Bachelor's Degree in criminal justice from Florida Atlantic University.<ref name="HuffPo Profile" /> After graduation, he took a security guard job at IBM.<ref name="Webb Foundation About Us">{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.webbfamilyfoundation.org/about-us|work=Webb Family Foundation Website|publisher=Webb Family Foundation|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref> He later held management and leadership positions at Bay Networks, Quantum Corporation, and Thomas-Conrad Corporation and was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Gateway, Inc.

From 1999 to 2006, Webb held various titles at eBay, including President of Technology and Chief Operating Officer.<ref name="NYT DealBook 2/12" /> 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.<ref name="eCommerce Bytes">{{cite web|last=Steiner|first=Ina|title=Former eBay COO Maynard Webb Joins LiveOps As CEO|url=http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m12/i21/s04|work=News|publisher=eCommerce Bytes|accessdate=11 October 2012|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034543/http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m12/i21/s04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

During that time, LiveOps was named one of Forbes’ Ten Hot Start-Ups (2009),<ref name="Forbes Hot Start-ups">{{cite news|last=Caulfield |first=Brian |title=Ten Hot Start-ups |url=https://www.forbes.com/2009/12/03/zynga-facebook-twitter-technology-breakthroughs-startups_slide_10.html |work=Entrepreneurs |publisher=Forbes |accessdate=11 October 2012 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130123125023/http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/03/zynga-facebook-twitter-technology-breakthroughs-startups_slide_10.html |archivedate=23 January 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref name="WSJ VentureWire">{{cite news|last=Barry|first=David|title=The $100 Million Revenue Club: LiveOps Checks Off IPO Boxes|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/04/01/the-100-million-revenue-club-liveops-checks-off-ipo-boxes/|work=VentureWire Series|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref>

==Writing== With Carlye Adler, Webb authored a New York Times best-selling<ref name="The New York Times" /> book entitled ''Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship'', which was published in January 2013.<ref name="Amazon.com" /> 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.<ref name="Amazon.com" /> Over the years, Webb has blogged about entrepreneurship and work in the Internet economy.<ref name="HuffPo Profile">{{cite web|title=Maynard Webb|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maynard-webb|work=Blogger Profile|publisher=The Huffington Post|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref> Webb's second book, ''Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-25019-564-7 | title=Nonfiction Book Review: Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business by Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler | date=4 September 2018 }}</ref> with a Foreword by Howard Schultz, former executive chairman and CEO of Starbucks, was published by St. Martin's Press on September 11, 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250195647|title=Dear Founder {{!}} Maynard Webb {{!}} Macmillan|work=US Macmillan|access-date=2018-07-23|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Investments== In 2010, he founded Webb Investment Network (WIN) for early-stage investing in ecommerce, mobile, cloud computing, and enterprise startups.<ref name="TechCrunch Sept 2012" /> Startups that WIN funds have access to a network of 89 industry experts from companies such as Google, PayPal, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard.<ref name="TechCrunch Sept 2012" /><ref name="WIN Team" /> The network was built from Webb’s business connections.<ref name="TechCrunch Sept 2012" /> WIN is considered to be part of a trend of smaller, early-stage funds that are indirectly challenging the traditional venture capital model.<ref name="TechCrunch Sept 2012" />

==Philanthropy== Webb and his wife Irene founded the Webb Family Foundation in 2004,<ref name="Webb Foundation About Us" /> an organization dedicated to “promoting meritocracy through helping underdogs in society meet their full potential.”<ref name="HuffPo Giving Back">{{cite news|last=Webb|first=Maynard|title=The Power of Giving Back: Nothing "Yeah, But" About It|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maynard-webb/the-power-of-giving-back_b_665374.html|work=The Blog|publisher=The Huffington Post|accessdate=11 October 2012|date=30 July 2010}}</ref> Through grants, the foundation has supported disaster relief, youth mentoring, cancer research, education, and other organizations.<ref name="Webb Foundation Grants">{{cite web|title=Recent Grants|url=http://www.webbfamilyfoundation.org/recent-grants|work=Webb Family Foundation Website|publisher=Webb Family Foundation|accessdate=11 October 2012|archive-date=5 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105120453/http://www.webbfamilyfoundation.org/recent-grants|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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