NO. 2 DRAFT PICK
Patricia Shores
College: Harvard Business School
Age: 28
Hometown: Kansas City, Mo.
Other Degrees: B.A. in American history and pre-med, Harvard University (dossier), 1994
E-mail: patricia_shores@yahoo.com
Web site: www.hbs.edu
RESUME AT A GLANCE
At Amazon.com, Shores was one of two product managers who helped launch the Seattle retailer's successful toys category. She did such a bang-up job that Joe Galli, president and COO of Amazon, approached a Standard reporter at Harvard Business School's Cyberposium to give an enthusiastic recommendation to whomever hires Shores. If he has his way, he says it'll be him. Before she entered B-school, Shores mastered marketing as an associate consultant at Deloitte Consulting in Boston, working in the health care industry. While at Harvard, she helped pen a hip-hop site's business plan, and she launched a Webcasting site aimed at teens.
HOOP DREAMS
Shores remains loyal to the b-to-c model, although she can't stand the term, and hopes her next job will be in marketing and strategy. She's also itching to be a part of the wireless Internet, which might explain why she's keeping Amazon at bay.
Shores predicts that we'll not only see a spate of mergers and acquisitions among phone companies, ISPs and cable companies to "secure their relevance and value across all devices," but we'll also see traditional retailers acquire or partner with pure-plays - Toys (TOY)"R" Us and eToys (ETYS), Home Depot and Garden.com (GDEN), Circuit City and Buy.com.
She says the craziest thing she's done was move to Paris without first lining up a job or apartment, so naturally she doesn't fear failure: "If you are working for a startup with terrific management, even if you fail you will both benefit from experienced managers and learn by doing."
THE JUDGES SAY
"While a perfect fit might be in a health care dot-com, she seems to be keenly interested in wireless and telecom," says Jana Rich. "I would advise her to follow her passion in this emerging sector."
Rating: 8.6
Salary: $101,000
