Maynard Webb

Article summary

Maynard G. Webb Jr. (born 1955) is an American business person and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship, and the national bestseller Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business. A long-time technology executive and angel investor, Webb is a board member of Salesforce, Visa, and former chairman of the board of directors at Yahoo!. Webb founded Webb Investment Network in 2010 and is the former CEO of LiveOps and former COO of eBay.

Key claims

1. date of birth: 1955 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of foundation: 2010 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. date of foundation: 2004 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. publication date: 2013 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the date of birth is "1955". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the date of foundation is "2010". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the date of foundation is "2004". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. The record states that the publication date is "2013". What evidence would count against this claim?
6. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
7. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340820378