Meg Whitman, every mention
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 39:03 David Rosenthal Meg Whitman.
- ▶ 43:04 Dara Khosrowshahi It's like, oh, did you hear like Meg is this?
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:36 David Rosenthal In September 1998, just a little over a year later, by which point in time the company, and with Benchmark and David Byrne, highly involved, has recruited Meg Whitman, the superstar Meg Whitman from Hasbro and
- ▶ 1:22:56 Ben Gilbert She was part of the Strap Planning Group.
- ▶ 1:26:15 David Rosenthal But after eBay is clearly working and Meg Whitman is there, Benchmark had been doing for a while and would really embrace bringing in entrepreneurs in residence and doing the EIR strategy of company formation, bring somebody who wants to…
- ▶ 1:27:15 David Rosenthal They bring in Meg.
- ▶ 1:27:29 David Rosenthal You know, Meg gets distracted.
- ▶ 1:34:47 David Rosenthal Even higher level CFO services like investor reporting, they can't yet be a software version of like a Meg Whitman in a box for you, but they're working on it.
- ▶ 1:35:01 David Rosenthal But even without yet getting to Meg Whitman, all of this stuff that otherwise you would be hiring either an old school accounting firm to do or spending half a million dollars a year bringing in a, you know, full-fledged CFO, VP of…
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 2:13:18 David Rosenthal Meg Whitman
- ▶ 2:13:22 Ben Gilbert Meg Whitman of Disney Strat Planning fame.
- ▶ 2:13:29 David Rosenthal That's the DNA of, of Meg.
- ▶ 2:14:08 David Rosenthal So Meg and Pierre get back to Silicon Valley, and supposedly, according to Brad, Pierre's like, wow, that was really cool.
- ▶ 2:14:21 David Rosenthal And Meg supposedly says, I think this is from an interview with Pierre in the book.
- ▶ 2:14:25 David Rosenthal Meg says, Pierre, this is not a direct quote.
- ▶ 2:16:17 David Rosenthal What happens after this meeting with Meg and Pierre, I think really illustrates just how special Jeff and Amazon as a company are, because he makes a mental and emotional leap that I, I don't know many people could have made.
- ▶ 2:19:04 David Rosenthal Of course, Meg and Pierre, they're not dumb at eBay.
- ▶ 2:42:54 unnamed speaker In the fall of 2000, Meg Whitman and Jeff Jordan fly up to Seattle and they pitch Bezos on the opposite idea.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:06 Brad Gerstner I think it was Meg Whitman asked him the question, you know, isn't all the interesting stuff done?
- ▶ 55:11 Brad Gerstner And he said, Meg, like,