Name
Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman
Los Angeles, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University | Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
United States
Quibi
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eBay, Self Made
$3,900,000,000
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#2 America's Self-Made Women 2019
#645 Billionaires 2019
Meg Whitman is best known for taking eBay from $5.7 million to $8 billion in sales as CEO from 1998 to 2008.She was CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 2011 to 2015, where she oversaw its split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.She stepped down as HPE's chief executive in February 2018 but remains on its board. She also sits on the boards of Procter & Gamble and Dropbox.Since becoming CEO of Quibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg's new short-form video platform, in April 2018, the startup closed a $1 billion funding round.In 2018, Whitman invested in LA-based e-sports company Immortals LLC and took a seat on the board.
Whitman ran for Governor of California in 2010 as a Republican and lost, despite spending a reported $140 million of personal funds on her campaign.Her husband, Griffith Harsh, is a renowned neurosurgeon, Stanford professor and Rhodes Scholar.
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