“Take her down.”
Three words from eBay CEO Davin Wenig to chief communications officer Steve Wymer in May 2019 would ignite one of Silicon Valley’s most disturbing corporate scandals.
For David and Ina Steiner, founders of the independent newsletter EcommerceBytes, those words marked the beginning of a three-week campaign of intimidation involving live insects, a fetal pig, anonymous threats, and a funeral wreath delivered to their quiet suburban home.