In the summer of 2019, the middle-aged couple behind EcommerceBytes, a trade publication that helps eBay vendors optimize sales, become the target of online hate, cyberstalking threats and bizarre deliveries including a bloody pig mask and a funeral wreath. As the harassment intensifies, the police and FBI close in on a Silicon Valley giant and some very unlikely suspects. Whatever It Takes tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a Fortune 500 company whose founding principle is that “people are basically good” and yet whose security team goes to unbelievable criminal lengths to protect their CEO from a corporate raider. This is a timely true-crime caper about corporate dysfunction and the disintegration of ethics, as well as a reminder that little has changed in the post-#MeToo world—men in the C-suite still enjoy impunity and golden parachutes while young women endure workplace discrimination and intimidation. Meanwhile, innocent grassroots newsletter journalists are nothing but ...