WhitTVman to head mobile-first media platform Outgoing Hewlett Packard Enterprise chief Meg Whitman is stepping out of tech and into the big chair at a "mobile-first media platform" startup. Whitman, who spent the past six-and-a-bit years dismantling HP, will grab the controls at NewTV from 1 March, a business started by Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg. "Meg is …
one of the most accomplished and sought-after executives of our time
As in she has accomplished the dismantling of industry icons into shadow of their former selves, and that executives really hope she will work for one of their rivals so as to remove some competition from the marketplace?
The ambition is for NewTV, based in Los Angeles, to produce ten-minute or less Hollywood style productions for viewing on a portable device.
Mugabe Meg going head to head with youtube with the killer innovation being "Hollywood production values"??? Hahahaha. You can tell they've legalised weed in CA. Find her something where she can use her "particular set of skills" beneficially - a senior position in the coal or tobacco industry, for example.
Well, I think she'll fit right in based on an observation I made in a previous comment thread:
Having read some of the various claim/counter-claim documents in the HP vs. Autonomy spat I still can't get over the description of the high level "Executive Committee" meetings: "Ms Whitman ... repeatedly adopted the management approach of ... playing country music to the meeting instructing the senior executives attending to take the meaning of the country music songs and apply them to their own management methods".
Created 14,770 PayPal jobs. Destroyed 256,000 HP jobs
Saying she has "built and scaled some of the most important global companies today" is not the most balanced assessment of her record, It's a bit like focussing on "verucca removal" as representative of Harold Shipman's primary skillset.
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