PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

Amid the public health crisis in the country and the travel vertical, MGM Resorts International said in an announcement that Chief Operating Officer and President Bill Hornbuckle has been appointed to the position of acting chief executive officer and president. Hornbuckle replaces Jim Murren, the outgoing chairman and CEO.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Online platform eBay announced it has tapped Peter Thompson, former vice president of Amazon’s Alexa Voice Services, as its new senior vice president and chief product officer. Before his work at Amazon, he was chief operating officer of TiVo and held executive roles at Microsoft, T-Mobile, Ericsson and Sonos.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, When mobile phone company Danger Inc was created in the heady days of 2000 with execs from Apple, Phillips, and WebTV, it looked like a leadership dream team.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. Theranos was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, then an undergraduate student at Stanford University’s School of Engineering.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. 2003: Long-term thinking is rooted in ownership. In fact, in 2017, all of Amazon’s operating income came from AWS, a once-risky bet on a “dreamy” business idea.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved. There’s a complexity to getting these tools operational that compounds at scale. Bain, which has helped hundreds of similar businesses undergo their “digital transformation,” has that deep operator expertise.

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