Meg Whitman whose full name is Margaret Cushing Whitman will turn 64 in 2020. Since she began her career, Whitman has worked for many top tech companies.
Meg Whitman is a respected name in the United States and she has a college, Whitman College, named after her at Princeton University after she made a $30 million donation to the school. While starting out, Whitman first worked for The Procter & Gamble company before she moved to The Walt Disney Company.
After two years as vice president of strategic planning, she left Disney. Meg Whitman later worked at Hasbro’s Playskool Division General Manager, starting in January 1997. She is famed in the company for bringing in the children’s show, Teletubbies, from the UK to the US.
One year later, she pitched her tent with eBay when the company only had 30 employees and revenues of approximately $4 million. During her time as eBay’s CEO, Whitman pushed the company high up the revenue ladder.
By 2008, when she resigned from the company, it had grown to approximately 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue. After leaving the company Whitman joined Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) board of executives in 2011.
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She was named CEO of HP later in 2011 and she focused on the company’s PC business. Whitman announced stepping down from HP in 2017 but mentioned that she will remain involved in the company’s affairs.
In late 2018, Meg Whitman became the first employee and CEO of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new video streaming platform Quibi. Investors in the service include Disney, NBCUniversal, Sony, Viacom, and AT&T’s newly-rebranded WarnerMedia.
She is also a very vocal political activist and has shown support for high-level political movements even as high as presidential candidates. Whitman has received numerous awards and accolades for her work at eBay.
Top magazines like Fortune magazine, Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times have named her as an important figure in business and politics.
However, Bloomberg L.P. named Whitman the “Most Underachieving CEO” in 2013. She has made a hard long journey through the world of tech and has been largely successful.
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