Company · Technology · Manufacturing
Hewlett-Packard
Silicon Valley electronics company. Steve Jobs got a summer job there in 1968 from Bill Hewlett, and Steve Wozniak designed calculators there before Apple.
Of the 5 people here linked to Hewlett-Packard, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. 2 of them also appear at Apple. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
5 people at Hewlett-Packard
Executive Past
Role
Board member from January 2011, then CEO of HP and of Hewlett Packard Enterprise; chair of the HP Inc. board until July 2017, 2011–2018
Source
· high confidence. CEO from September 22, 2011; stepped down effective February 1, 2018, and did not seek board re-election in 2019 per the HPE page. After the 2015 split the company is HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Technology 2 / 3
Meg Whitman
Former CEO, eBay
affluent · elite · graduate degree
Executive Past
Role
Led the team that built HP's first computer; General Manager of the Computer Division, 1965–1971
Also at
Source
· high confidence. Fostering Promise gives the 1965 recruitment by David Packard, leading the HP 2116A team and the 1971 departure. The General Manager title comes from this file's own narrative, not from that page.
Technology 8 / 9
Roy Clay Sr.
Led HP's first computer division; founder, ROD-L Electronics
poverty · outsider · college degree
Board Past
Role
Board member of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia lists the Hewlett Packard Enterprise board among his seats and says HPE announced in February 2018 he would not seek reelection at the April 2018 meeting. The page cited does not give a start year, and the registry entry covers HP and HPE together.
Venture Capital · Software 4 / 1
Marc Andreessen
Co-creator of the Mosaic web browser; co-founder of Netscape and of the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
middle-class · some · college degree
Employee Past
Technology 3 / 1
Steve Jobs
Co-founder and CEO, Apple; CEO, Pixar
working-class · well-connected · some college
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