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I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days
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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
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HP's board has done a lot of messed up stuff. I wouldn't touch HP gear with a stick.
I will never forgive Carley Fiorino for killing HP.
That was particularly grisly. It sure went to shit fast, didn’t it.
Up until that point hp had a stellar engineering reputation. They could have milked that for many more years, but it takes real talent to destroy that so quickly and completely