Brooke Gladstone
speaker
1,676 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Brooke Gladstone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So let's step back for a second.
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eBay went public in 1998.
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It blew past expectations, but by the late aughts and early 2010s, the company was struggling.
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And in 2019, eBay is targeted by Elliott Management, an aggressive group of investors, to say the least.
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And around this time, Jim Baugh enters the picture.
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He's the head of eBay's security unit.
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He had a good reputation.
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Baugh had, I think it's fair to say, some grandiose notions.
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He was trying to build an elite team that would change the global security landscape.
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He assigned reports about global conflicts and quizzed his team on subjects like the Middle East.
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His team was plied with a lot of celebratory wine at the office.
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which they drank at those times when he didn't move them to tears.
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He had sex with at least one of those employees.
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And he was also peculiarly obsessed with movies.
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And he made his employees spend many work hours watching and dissecting particular movie clips.
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An important one is the scene from Full Metal Jacket, a sergeant diminishing his soldiers.
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So, 2019, eBay is embattled, targeted by the investors at Elliott Management.
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Baugh is intensively intimidating and manipulating the young women on his security team.
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And the Steiners are continuing to report on eBay.
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What are some of the articles that Ina is writing that really annoyed the top brass?
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