Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina weighs White House bid

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  1. truebluefan

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    Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who engineered its $25 billion acquisition of Compaq, is considering another top job: President of the United States.

    The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Fiorina, who left HP in early 2005 after six years, is wooing donors, recruiting staff, sending thank-you notes to Iowa activists, and plans to visit New Hampshire next month. That smells like campaign prep to almost anyone who can fog a mirror.

    This news came the same day current HP CEO Meg Whitman talked more about splitting up HP into two independent companies — an enterprise IT unit and a PC-and-printer company — undoing much of what Fiorina and her successor Mark Hurd engineered.

    Read more https://gigaom.com/2014/11/26/former-hp-ceo-carly-fiorina-weighs-white-house-bid/
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Most famous for a maligned and desperate merger that many analysts thought only passed due to shareholder bribes. Sounds like a perfect candidate!
     
  3. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Perhaps if she becomes president she'll acquire Greece.

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