Comments on: Carly Fiorina is selling herself as political pundit; not everyone’s buying

By: Bubba

Bubba — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:36:02 +0000

As others much smarter than I have pointed out, Carly Fiorina was one of the new “Finance-oriented”, Wall-Street-bred CEOs who ruined HP by ignoring the engineering side, the R&D side of HP where money must be spent to come up with innovative, new products. She, instead, tried to manipulate the shares of the stock through foolish M&A activity (buying a moribund Compaq), while firing or undercutting the root of HP business: engineers and R&D staff. This was a huge mistake that ruined HP and changed its culture. Carly was a stock price manipulator, not a the proper CEO for a deeply rooted and culturally staid engineering company. Carly is better suited to leveraged buyouts and Private Equity-type business, where making money by ruining companies and selling off the parts, is the main objective.

By: Danox

Danox — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:42:29 +0000

Imagine what HP could have done with 38.2 billion dollars (Compaq, Autonomy, and Palm) if there was tech, design, engineer in charge as CEO instead of MBA’s, Sales and bean counter’s in charge as CEO. (The utter waste!!)

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:45:10 +0000

Apologies to George. Spelling is fixed.

By: AlistairJeffs

AlistairJeffs — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:01:36 +0000

Also, it’s spelled Stephanopoulos

By: Vinod Shintre

Vinod Shintre — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:07:16 +0000

don’t worry same is being repeated again with yet another company & you know which one I am talking about ;-)

By: Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:22:21 +0000

Folks, GigaOM covers The Valley, and Carly Fiorina is a big part of its recent past. Darrow brought up an interesting topic…failed CEO, failed candidate for governor…what makes her a pundit?

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:25:28 +0000

dumb article for giga. Stick with what you know…

By: Jerry E Durant

Jerry E Durant — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:44:20 +0000

Simply goes to show that a face that rises without substance gets golden opportunities only to have them become self-evident as to personal abilities. Yet, the golden chance continues… what the hell is society looking for the “good feel” or the “real deal”???

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:47:37 +0000

Ouch, yes. Jerry. Fixing, thx.

By: Your Favorite Pedant

Your Favorite Pedant — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:19:23 +0000

speaking of factual, that’d be Jerry, not Gerry.