george,ing back bill harvard business professor, and john stravinsky, who runs the blackstone investmentision. let's focus on the fight against ebay. john, what is your take on the whole thing? comes in,nahoe restructures the company, gets rid of skype, buys paypal, focuses on integrating the platforms, has done a brilliant job, the stock is up over the last five years. what is not to like about that? why not go after more bond companies that are not doing the right thing? he has a strong, unified board, he is doing everything necessary . he has a strategy and he has stayed with it. he has integrated the platforms, is leveraging them both, his problem is google and facebook and how to keep his platform going. but he has a very strong independent board with capable people on their who continue to upgrade. probably the strongest board in silicon valley. i think he is doing the right thing. >> what do you think? >> i think that when this case study is taught it will be taught as a case how -- a case on how activists can use the way thana much broader corporations. corporations are bound by