John Donahoe
Athletics director of Stanford UniversityWikipedia
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Sep 14, 2026
Matt WolfHOST
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Dan HernandezGUEST
... and then other things like that I've learned from the second president of Bain & Company was John Donahoe, who went on to be the CEO of eBay, and I think he's the CEO of Nike right now.
Dan HernandezGUEST
And he taught me to surround myself with very smart people.
Dan HernandezGUEST
Um, I have a therapist, I have a business coach, I have CEO buddies that are my accountability partners.
MichelleHOST
Okay.
MichelleHOST
But I guess under this old, what is his name? Donahoe, Jim or something.
MichelleHOST
John Donahoe.
MichelleHOST
Right.
MichelleHOST
He decided that they were going to pull back from the wholesale market and pull out of stores like Dick's and some other retailers.
Wendy BellHOST
They went full DEI and poured tens, tons of money and resources into all things racial and social justice.
Wendy BellHOST
Their former CEO, John Donahoe, proudly described DEI and social justice as one of Nike's core brand values.
Wendy BellHOST
What? Not to mention, Nike also spent years saddled up with LeBron James, to Brock's point, one of the most outspoken progressive athletes in America and a polarizing figure way beyond the basketball court.
Wendy BellHOST
Safe to say he's hardly the university-beloved sports icon Nike once built its brand around, and that was it.
Rick WatsonHOST
It arrived at the end of 2024, aimed at stopping the sales slide and pushing the brand back towards basketball and running.
Rick WatsonHOST
The diagnosis underneath it all is that John Donahoe pulled Nike out of wholesale and leaned on the assortment of Air Force Ones and Dunks, which handed shelf space to Ahn and Hoka.
Rick WatsonHOST
From Donahoe's arrival in January 2020 to his exit in October 2024, Nike shares lost a quarter of their value while the S&P 500 gained more than 60%.
Rick WatsonHOST
Of course, the repair job now runs through wholesale and that's a different business than it was when Nike left it.
Paul GoldsteinGUEST
He was saying that tongue-in-cheek.
Paul GoldsteinGUEST
I also think about our current athletic director, John Donahoe.
Paul GoldsteinGUEST
John has had a phenomenal business career.
Paul GoldsteinGUEST
CEO of bain consulting ceo of ebay ceo of service now most recently ceo of nike and when he resigned from nike retired from nike you know he didn't have to work again but i think he will i don't know that i can't speak for him i don't know the final job but he's now the ad at stanford and one of the things that he shared with us is that throughout his business career, some of the people he admired most were athletic coaches, Phil Jackson's of the world, Bill Walsh.
Ed ClementsHOST
Mark Brooks, who just got back from DKR.
Ed ClementsHOST
Welcome, my friend.
Ed ClementsHOST
Your thoughts on the Longhorns in the first half.
Ed ClementsHOST
Or first
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Mark BrooksPANELIST
So it's an accumulation of all the sports.
Mark BrooksPANELIST
They have points, and Texas won it.
Ed ClementsHOST
Our friend John Donahoe, the new athletic director at Stanford.
Ed ClementsHOST
And he does a great job.
Dave WrightGUEST
Um, but then Fred explained the whole vision and, and when I understood what the vision was, I left VMware in 2011 and joined ServiceNow as the head of solution consulting, uh, under Frank Slootman.
Dave WrightGUEST
Then I became the chief strategy officer under Frank and then the chief innovation officer under John Donahoe when he arrived and did the same job for Bill when he arrived.
Andy TemteHOST
That, that's awesome.
Andy TemteHOST
So early in your career, I just have to ask, did you program with cards? Uh, 'cause I, I, I remember distinctly-
Dave WrightGUEST
So for him, it was about multiple product streams.
Dave WrightGUEST
When John Donahoe came in, John wasn't like a technologist.
Dave WrightGUEST
John was like a brand and people person.
Dave WrightGUEST
So, so then it was like all
Dean DeBiaseHOST
around positioning.
Musa TariqGUEST
It wasn't just me, no. [laughs]
Seth MatlinsHOST
John Donahoe's off the hook now.
Seth MatlinsHOST
[laughs] It was Musa.
Musa TariqGUEST
Um, at their best, Nike's key customer was their 17-year-old athlete.
Concerned CitizenHOST
In almost every case, the IP addresses of those commenters pointed to eBay's San Jose headquarters.
Concerned CitizenHOST
Even more concerning, under the guidance of a new chief executive, John Donahoe, the e-commerce giant falsely accused and reported Ecommerce Bytes as a phishing website to the Steiners' web hosting company, a direct threat to the couple's only source of income.
Concerned CitizenHOST
According to Boston Magazine, eBay eventually retracted that report and admitted its error, but the relationship proved damaged beyond repair.
Concerned CitizenHOST
eBay was no longer willing to answer questions from Ina Steiner for her website.
Ina SteinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I hope eBay's watching and listening.
Ina SteinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I hope eBay's watching and listening.
Concerned CitizenHOST
There was a small glimmer of hope that the Steiners could repair their relationship with eBay when CEO John Donahoe left to lead the PayPal spinoff in 2015, which paved the way for former lawyer and executive of Thomson Reuters, Devin Wenig, to take over.
Concerned CitizenHOST
Early on in his tenure, Wenig, a New York transplant, had made public comments in support of a free press.
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