1999 to 2005 was a very tough time to be in high tech. A lot of companies went out of business. H-P didn’t.
Too late for Carly as far as I’m concerned. As soon as she played the womb card after the debate, she became just another middle aged female unfit for public office.
I took the time to look at the HP record for every CEO for 7 or 9 back.
The company prospered under every male and tanked under every female, including Carly.
Why would I vote for someone with a record of putting their company in the dumper?
Carny is bleeding from wherever.
I’m conflicted. I see that Carly has a legacy of ‘being associated with’ failed companies and failed campaigns. I also see that she has a tremendous stage presence and a most professional deportment. She is so damn articulate.
She may not be primed for the presidency, but I hope we can use her in other ways. Maybe a visiting guest contract on Fox to start. How about having her take Reince Priebus place when he finally goes. I would pay money to see Carly have at it with Debbie Wash-herself-Schultz, earring to earring!
Interesting thread.
Fiorina is an affirmative action failure. A woman with a liberal arts degree from Stahn-Ford who keeps failing upward, which is the only way you can go in a company if you’re a she, not a he.
H-P used to have a reputation that was bullet proof, and the equipment was always the best - just a matter of whether you wanted to pay for it.
They took only the top 2% or so of Engineering school grads. You couldn’t even get an interview if you weren’t in that cohort.
She took the Instrument part of the business and stripped it of its brand name which was the most valuable in the world. “Agilent” doesn’t really hold much heft against “National Instruments”, but H-P did. You knew who the heavy weight was.
She destroyed that and pasted the H-P name on a crapware mass produced clone. There might be some marketing cleverness to that but it took a long time to live down the Compaq name. H-P could have just built their own right from the start, there was no heavy engineering to do. They had a lot of make up work on bringing the Compaq junk up to standards. The originals were a just a bit beyond the Gateway trash.
So while she may be well spoken, she had no business being where she was.
As an Engineer in the Valley I know a fair number of H-P alumni. Not one has a good word for her and all of them are some of the best electron chasers I ever met.
Maybe she’s got a sharp tongue. Don’t mean nuffin’ if ya don’t understand whatcha got, how to sell it, and especially how to develop it.