Selling Carly?
There’s a whole bunch of melted PC boards in a landfill somewhere that happened during her watch at Lucent. She got a big bonus by stuffing the channel there. Figured she could stick the product in boxcars and send it out on rail. When the quarter ended, they could return the product.
Whoops - Sticking plastic boards in a hot boxcar in the Texas heat tends to degrade the product a bit.
It all went away.
HP used to be on the cutting edge, and she put them full on into PCs and printers. Oh yeah, HP is the company of the future because of Carly.
Nope, I didn’t work there, for either one. I just did the competitive intelligence on them for a rival company.
In her defense, she did what she was paid to do - gut the company by taking on Compaq and spinning of Agilent.
All the former HP types ran Agilent into the turf. Shame.
Agreed. Anyone that thinks a female business person from California is going to be a conservative is delusional.