Given Christodoro's field of expertise, I would expect him to move on with PayPal and continue looking for buyout-style exit strategies. In other news, eBay plans to eliminate about 2,400 positions in the first quarter. This 7% workforce reduction will be spread across PayPal, eBay proper, and the eBay Enterprise online store-building service. It's not something Icahn has explicitly asked for, but layoffs are a common enough side effect of drastic reorganizations such as the spin-off of a major business division. And if that wasn't enough, eBay is now contemplating a sale or spin-off for the Enterprise division as well. "Enterprise is a good business, but it has become clear that it has increasingly divergent opportunities and limited synergies with eBay," said eBay CEO John Donahoe in a prepared statement. With limited synergies at work between the divisions, it might be better to just do a clean break and reinvest the resulting cash inflow somewhere else.