Meg Whitman
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Oct 26, 2026
Kara SwisherHOST
I'm like, it never was in my experience.
Kara SwisherHOST
It wasn't any—there wasn't anything? Or you'd have a John Chambers or Meg Whitman on the outlier of Republicans.
Kara SwisherHOST
You'd have very liberal people, maybe a few, and it was largely the workers.
Kara SwisherHOST
But I never saw it as anything, really.
J.D. ShermanGUEST
Yeah.
J.D. ShermanGUEST
I had a long time ago, I had dinner with Meg Whitman, who's also a passionate fly fisherman.
J.D. ShermanGUEST
And yeah, we were, you know, it was like a business-ish dinner, but instead we just talked about fly fishing for an hour and a half.
J.D. ShermanGUEST
So that was a great experience.
Topher BurnsHOST
But the reason Oath was launching into this space is because of the subject of our third question.
Topher BurnsHOST
So how much total money had been lost By the time the Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman media platform Quibi shut down after only six months of operation, and you got a multiple choice on this one, A, 1.4 million, B, 14 million, C, 1.4 billion.
Topher BurnsHOST
What was the B? It was 14 million, and
Ian SchaferGUEST
then C was 1.4 billion.
Jeffrey MadoffHOST
There were amazing profit machines.
Jeffrey MadoffHOST
And he brought in Meg Whitman, and she was the CEO, former CEO of eBay, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and even ran for governor in California, which is the...
Jeffrey MadoffHOST
Silicon Valley state.
Jeffrey MadoffHOST
So you had an incredible combination of people, right? The ultimate Hollywood insider and a one-time California gubernatorial candidate who, you know, the founder myth that attracts smart money that stops people from asking the hard questions.
Lee McCabeGUEST
I think eBay, you know, it's always funny when you look at the companies, the CEOs mold the companies in an image of themselves.
Lee McCabeGUEST
And Meg Whitman, who was a great CEO-
Kyle MatthewsHOST
Yeah
Lee McCabeGUEST
... was at eBay.
Michael LeBlancHOST
And we've been talking about a couple of grocers particularly because Amazon has got us really thinking about the grocery category in new and different ways.
Michael LeBlancHOST
And it's funny, you know, Meg Whitman goes to Albertsons and now Albertsons has put itself up for sale after the breakup of their bid with Kroger.
Michael LeBlancHOST
So let's talk about what Kroger imports, you know, a high performing executive from Walmart to bring a little discipline and a little bit of the Walmart whatever's to Kroger.
Michael LeBlancHOST
How's it going?
Michael LeBlancHOST
A lot of retailers are, I think, maybe starting to get ahead of their skis a little bit in terms of customer experience and retail media.
Steve DennisHOST
Yes, I would agree.
Michael LeBlancHOST
My last thought on that is, interesting that Meg Whitman, eBay, HP, more of a turnaround person, certainly not a grocer.
Michael LeBlancHOST
Grocery is a complex business.
Linda A. HillGUEST
Or in some companies, I remember when I was studying eBay when it first, early in its life, when we were just learning how to shop online.
Linda A. HillGUEST
And one of the things that I remember Meg Whitman said to me is, really what we're doing right now at this stage of the company is trying to convince the public that it's safe to do financial transactions online.
Linda A. HillGUEST
It's about building trust.
Linda A. HillGUEST
That's what we're about.
Linda A. HillGUEST
And once we got comfortable in communities of collectors, then they moved to more traditional sort of fixed other kinds of products where it wasn't about collecting.
Linda A. HillGUEST
But because they had built in this discipline of thinking about what is the business model for whatever this is we're getting ready to offer, they actually did end up being more profitable than most.
Linda A. HillGUEST
And related to that, and I just want to put this into context, one of the first things Meg Whitman said to me when I visited her, I think it was the first year she was CEO of eBay, is she said, Linda, in the end, we'll probably make the most of our money from the payment system.
Linda A. HillGUEST
And as you all know, and we all know, PayPal ended up being quite successful.
Paige Arnof-FennGUEST
You know, it, it really, I joke I'm like the accidental entrepreneur.
Paige Arnof-FennGUEST
If you had met me in business school, I was gonna be Meg Whitman.
Paige Arnof-FennGUEST
I was gonna run a big Fortune 500 company.
Paige Arnof-FennGUEST
I was gonna come up through the marketing function.
Jorge TitingerGUEST
Right.
Jorge TitingerGUEST
And we had technology that, that they wanted and so it was kind of the you know the concept and the you know that we started discussing both you know myself and you know meg whitman was the ceo at the time but then you know they transitioned to to antonio neri who um is the current ceo and has done a great job of kind of revitalizing areas of hp was if we're able to put our products into that sales force and that service force, what could happen? Because for us, building a sales force that was, because the sales motion to the CTO or the head of R&D is very different than to the CIO.
Jorge TitingerGUEST
So building a sales force that was conversant to sell to CIOs I'm in big numbers or partnering with somebody who already has that, who knows how to sell compute that could be equipped with other products that are really great.
Jorge TitingerGUEST
It was really kind of the perfect marriage.
Bill HandelHOST
I mean, we have people, Huffington spent over $100 million on, I think, her campaign.
Bill HandelHOST
Meg Whitman spent over $100 million.
Bill HandelHOST
You've got, was it Bob Steyer who spent hundreds of millions of dollars on his...
Bill HandelHOST
Tom Steyer.
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