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Meg Whitman

Former CEO, eBay and Hewlett Packard Enterprise · 1 appearance on the record.

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Meg Whitman served as President and CEO of eBay from 1998 to 2008, expanding its revenue from $5.7 million to $8 billion. She later oversaw the corporate split of Hewlett-Packard and served as CEO of Quibi.

10statements → 3claims → 2claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 2.2/5average debate potential → 13said about them ↓

2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 1 assertion · 5 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Meg argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Whitman: Quibi will be a mobile-first, mobile-only short-form video platform
“What we are trying to do is create a platform where we offer short form, and I'm going to describe that in a minute, short form video of Hollywood production quality built for mobile. And mobile first, mobile only, honestly.”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:59 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology

How they sound: speaking style how? →

289 words/min while actually speaking · 1.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Meg Whitman: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to 2,490 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Meg Whitman is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

Everything Meg Whitman said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Held up
Whitman: Quibi will be a mobile-first, mobile-only short-form video platform
“What we are trying to do is create a platform where we offer short form, and I'm going to describe that in a minute, short form video of Hollywood production quality built for mobile. And mobile first, mobile only, honestly.”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:59 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Insight
Whitman: Ad-only models cannot monetize $100,000-per-minute short-form video
“I think the reason that there is this white space out there of very high quality short form content where no one is doing it is because if your only monetization mechanism is advertising, you can't make it pay because at a 100,000 dollars a minute times 10 min…”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:51 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Assertion Supported
Whitman: Quibi must commission all content because no short-form libraries exist
“There is no library to buy for this very high quality short form content. So unlike Netflix or Hulu or other that bought a library, there is no library to buy. So we have to commission that content.”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:52 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Disclosure
Whitman: Ten major studios invested in Quibi, unlocking 80% of Hollywood talent
“10 major studios have invested in this platform. And they have given us access to their best IP, their best showrunners and talent. And in this town, 70 to 80%, maybe even as high as 80% of the talent is actually locked up in these studios.”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:00 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Insight
Whitman: Silicon Valley is transactional; Hollywood relies on emotional connections
“One of the differences between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, this is a town of relationships and emotional connections. I would characterize Silicon Valley as a little bit more transactional. If I need you, I will get together with you and we'll do something. …”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:43 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Insight
Whitman: Hiring mistakes do not improve over time; fix them fast
“You are only as good as the people that work with you. And so the right person in the right job at the right time with the right attitude is absolutely critical. And if you make a mistake, fix it fast. When you make a mistake on a person that you have hired, t…”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 38:23 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Whitman: Quibi users will alternate between portrait and landscape viewing modes
“We think people will come to our application in portrait, but they will want to watch in landscape, and then they may want to go back and forth.”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 32:25 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Insight
Whitman: Career advice for female executives diverges ten years into their careers
“To young up-and-coming, it's the same. But as they get a little bit more than young up-and-coming, like 10 years into their career, it's a little bit different.”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 39:01 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Insight
Whitman: Winning a political campaign requires completely different skills than governing
“Running for office is completely different than governing. And I think that's one of the problems in our systems today is what it takes to win are completely different skills than what it actually takes to govern.”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 41:23 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Disclosure
Whitman: Running for governor caused PTSD but made her a better CEO
“I'm a better CEO because I did it, but I still have post-traumatic stress syndrome, honestly, eight years later.”
Meg Whitman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 41:35 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology

The other half of the tape: Meg Whitman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 11 times in 6 episodes on the a16z Podcast. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Marc Andreessen 4Todd Cranny 3Jeff Jordan 2Mellody Hobson 1Dawn Lepore 1

Statements about Meg Whitman, by other people (2)

Assertion Supported
Andreessen: HP's Project Moonshot deliberately disrupted its own blade server business
“Meg Whitman doing the same thing with this just one example is this Project Moonshot, which is these cartridge-based servers At HP that are a direct attack on the existing blade server business, and the blade server business at HP is a very, very big and profi…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:44 a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 2
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Meg Whitman used a five-highlights, five-lowlights format at eBay
“At eBay for many years, when she was running eBay, it was always, it was five highlights and five lowlights.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:30 a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology Jan 2, 2019 10m
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