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Meg Whitman

United States 69 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth: EBay
Industry: Technology
Residence: Los Angeles, California
Education: Harvard Business School (Master of Business Administration)
Princeton University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
Marital Status: Married
Children: 2

Assets

Coreweave

9,000 shares @ -

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CRWV-US
Dropbox, Inc.

88,000 shares @ -

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DBX-US
DXC Technology

43,000 shares @ -

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DXC-US
eBay

12,189,000 shares @ -

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EBAY-US
Gap Inc.

6,561 shares @ -

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GAP-US
General Motors

4,000 shares @ -

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GM-US
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

136,000 shares @ -

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HPE-US
HP Inc.

457,000 shares @ -

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HPQ-US
PayPal Holdings

10,739,000 shares @ -

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PYPL-US

Biography

Meg Whitman is best known for taking eBay from $5.7 million to $8 billion in sales as CEO from 1998 to 2008.

Whitman served as the United States ambassador to Kenya from 2022 to 2024.

She was CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 2011 to 2015, where she oversaw its split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

She stepped down as HP's chief executive in February 2018. She sat on the boards of Procter & Gamble and General Motors before becoming an ambassador.

Whitman was CEO of the defunct short form video platform Quibi, which shuttered in October 2020, just seven months after it launched.

About

Whitman ran for Governor of California in 2010 as a Republican and lost, despite spending a reported $140 million of personal funds on her campaign.

Her husband, Griffith Harsh, is a renowned neurosurgeon, Stanford professor and Rhodes Scholar.