She didn't actually do much with the technology when she was at eBay; she left that to lieutenants. She also fostered a culture where people on the "business s

She didn't actually do much with the technology when she was at eBay; she left that to lieutenants. She also fostered a culture where people on the "business side" (mostly Harvard MBAs, like her) would sit in one building while software engineers would toil away in another building. The idea was to maximize worker flexibility and prevent businesspeople from getting too attached to engineering resources, but in practice it really felt more like you were outsourcing projects to teams located 300 yards away.