When we last checked in on ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman, she was licking her wounds ($140 million poorer) from being roundly trounced by Jerry Brown in her failed bid for Governor of California.
So, what's Meg "I don't vote and I hire illegal immigrants" Whitman been up to since then?
Well, just moments ago, beleaguered tech giant Hewlett-Packard announced that they've appointed her as their new CEO.
HP's board has removed the chief executive it appointed just short of a year ago, Léo Apotheker, and has appointed former board member Meg Whitman in his place.
The move comes as HP has plummeted in value following Apotheker's announced vision of spinning off the company's personal computer business and killing its fledgling webOS hardware line of tablets and smartphones it acquired from Palm last year to instead focus on enterprise software.
A year ago, Oracle's chief executive told the Wall Street Journal he was "speechless" that HP had appointed Apotheker, writing that "HP had several good internal candidates […] but instead they pick a guy who was recently fired because he did such a bad job of running SAP."
Now, here's the amusing part for me:
Whitman blew $140 million running for Governor of California, replacing Léo Apotheker.
Léo Apotheker was hired to replace Mark Hurd.
Mark Hurd was hired to replace Robert Wayman.
Robert Wayman was appointed to replace...
Carly "Demon Sheep" Fiorina, who blew $8 million of her own money on a failed bid for Senator from California.
Yup. Sounds about right to me.