Career
Webb founded Webb Investment Network in 2010 and is the former Chief Executive Officer of LiveOps and former chief operating officer of eBay. With Carlye Adler, Webb authored a New York Times best-selling book entitled: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship, which was published in January 2013. 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.
Over the years, Webb has blogged about entrepreneurship and work in the Internet economy.
Webb received his Bachelor"s Degree in criminal justice from Florida Atlantic University. After graduation, he took a security guard job at International Business Machines Corporation. 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, Incorporated.
From 1999 to 2006, Webb held various titles at eBay, including President of Technology and Chief Operating Officer.
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. Webb served as Chief Executive Officer of LiveOps from 2006 to 2011, a cloud-based call center services company.
During that time, LiveOps was named one of Forbes’ Ten Hot Start-Ups (2009), 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.
Webb is a long-time angel investor who has helped fund such companies as Okta, Rypple, Badgeville, Hipmunk, Nebula, Luminate, SocialEyes, and Diffbot. The network was built from Webb’s business connections.
